To think that ALWAYS being late for EVERYTHING

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is just not acceptable when you are an adult, with no-one to care for but yourself.

Landlord is a friend of dh's family, I have known her for 5 years now and I have not once known her to be on time for anything. She was supposed to be here at 4 and we are still waiting.

She never even has an excuse, never mind a bad one!

It's rude and suggests that the person thinks that their time is more important than yours

Being late is incredibly selfish. It's like the late person thinks that their time is more important than yours. Grrr. Makes me cross.

I have a friend who is pathologically late all the time. She even missed her speeding ticket class thing because she was late. She had been done for speeding because she was late

She does things like decides to have a bath five minutes before she's supposed to be somewhere. I don't see so much of her these days

It does my head in. Her partner will need to turn all the electricity off when he gets here to get some work done but ds's dinner/bath/bed routine starts from about 5 so they're going to get right in the middle of all that.

oh joy, I think they're here....

oh no
its sign that you have a FAR too interesting life to be on time.
i have to ram stuff in.,

those who are around will just have to wait for ME

now you see i think SHYNESS is rude.
stop gibbering around and speak you wet wimp

I agree. I have an old and very dear friend who is constitutionally incapable of being on time. It's literally her only fault -- I absolutely love her but I think she has a kind of compulsion about having to be late, almost as if she's trying to prove something. I've watched her trying to keep appointments and she will only just start to prepare for the meeting at the appointed hour, so, say if she has to be somewhere at 8, at 8 she will say "shit, better put my make-up on", although she knows its going to take half an hour to get there. It drives me to distraction.

This is one of my pet peeves, If I can get myself and the mob (1,3 and 5) organised sorted and to whatever event on time then surely it is not an impossiblity to manage 'your' life to achieve this too! (nb I am not the most organised person on the planet but I would rather get up a few minutes earlier than be late for anything)

I see the same mums daily going into school late, and just want to to say set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier!!!! (no I never do because that really WBU and none of my damn business!)

But then I do come from a background where 5 mins early is on time.

YANBU - just bad manners, plain and simple.

Time management is learned skill and I didn't ever learn it when growing up. Our family were constantly late and embarrassingly late and I hated it. It wasn't laziness or lack of caring, just poor estimation of how long something would take or how easy it would be to just fit in one more thing. Now - despite hating being late - I find I'm following the same pattern. I know it is stupid but maybe while dh is brushing his teeth, I'll think that I'll just wash those few dishes - so we end up leaving 5mins after we should have done. At least it is usually less than 20mins late leaving now! It frustrates me so much about myself, but I don't remember NOT to start something till I'm already in the middle of it.

Anyway -YANBU but don't condemn her as uncaring or selfish - maybe she is just as organisationally incompetent as me.

Your LL is just showing how little respect she has for you.

Late people drive me mad. I have never been late for anything in my whole life. But then I was brought up that way - that being late is rude. I think it is something you have to learn.

you have to teach them the lesson their parents didn't teach them. Go out. Make her miss whatever it was she should have been on time for.