Minor one but I'd like to know what you think.
My mate invited me to her birthday, which was going to be 10 hours in the pub. I'd already committed to something else so said I could come for a couple of hours early on but not stay the whole thing. So she got back and said she could make it an hour earlier so we'd have more time (it has been a while since we saw each other but we used to be close, went on holidays together etc.). We don't live in the same city so it's a fair journey for me.
So, I turned up at the pub, no-one there. Another mate of hers turned up a few minutes later also expecting her. Eventually we rang her and got the reply she's on her way but delayed (she lives a few minutes away). She finally turned up an hour later than she'd said, at the original meeting time, saying how terrible she felt, really panicked about being late and how awfully flustered she was. She didn't say anything much else to me for two hours (she was chatting to people who were staying for longer, and didn't open the present I brought - is that just different habits, because I always thought it was rude not to open a present in front of the giver?
I would usually assume in that situation that she just didn't feel we were that close and was trying to show me she didn't really want to see me. But as I was leaving she told me how close she felt we were, how we needed to meet up soon, etc. etc.
I get that some people are more disorganized than others, but would you have been pissed off/offended, and would you think this wasn't a friendship worth making an effort about?