pull a rider

To insist for multiple days leading up to an event that you will be attending and then bail at the last minute via text message.

For the last three days James has been telling me he was going to come to the party. I knew he was going to pull a rider when I saw I had an unread text message this afternoon. Of course, the message said he couldn't make it.

pull a rider by mileman171 April 18, 2010