A friend of mine is always, always late. The more times I meet up with her, the later she gets. Often we will arrange to meet somewhere and after waiting for 15 minutes or so I will phone or text her, only to find she hasn't even left home yet.
Yesterday I arranged to meet her in the town in which she lives, which is about a 20 minute journey for me by car. I got there and waited and waited. She didn't answer her phone or reply to my text so after waiting for half an hour with no reply from her I decided to go home!
When I got home she had sent me quite a snotty text saying that she had had a very busy morning and that I should have waited for her. I replied that I too was having a busy day and that I didn't have time to wait around for her. She didn't reply again, and so I am guessing she has got the hump about it.
It reminds me of an incident a few years ago with a different friend. A group of us met up every few weeks for a meal, and every week without fail she would be late, and we'd wait and wait for her before we ordered. One week we all ordered as another member of the group was in a hurry that particular night. Late friend arrived as we got served our main courses, and had a bit of a hissy fit that we'd been inconsiderate and hadn't waited for her!
Why are people like this? I'm going to refuse to tolerate any lateness in friends from now on!
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To think it's funny how people that are persistantly late get annoyed if you refuse to wait for them?
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malteasereaser · 12/03/2014 12:18
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