To think morning means before 12 noon????

[LunaLoveg00d]

We have a car which is at the end of the lease and is due to be collected today. Email confirming collection clearly states AM collection. Phone call from company yesterday, man clearly said "in the morning".

Phone call today says they'll be with me around 1 to 1.30. AIBU in flying off the handle and saying 1 or 1.30 is NOT morning?? Plans have had to change because of this (only going out for lunch but still) and this is just the last in a long line of niggles with this bunch of numpties.

(Disclaimer: I know, first world problems)

I know afternoon is after noon, but I always think of morning and afternoon as synonymous with 'before lunch' and 'after lunch'. In a business context though, you're right. And AM and PM definitely changes at 12.00 noon. So you're completely within your rights to be angry.

YANBU.

If a business told me, for example, they were shut in the morning, I would expect them to open at midday. Not at 1pm or 2pm. If that's the case, they should say "we're closed until 1pm".

If you say you're going to be somewhere in the morning, and you really mean 1.30pm, then you don't mean morning at all, but lunchtime or early afternoon.

/pedant.

YANBU

Morning is, quite literally, before 12 noon. Since anything after that is 'afternoon'.

Tell them no probs, you'll be in until evening. Then go out at 3 pm and say oh, I work 6 until 3, so my afternoon finishes at 3.

British Gas once told me that their morning ends at 1pm so I had to take a whole day off work instead of a half day for a 'morning' appointment.

Daisy the only time I ever stayed in for British Gas I took the whole day off work and when I rang at 4:30 to check up they told me they had moved the appointment to next week. They had not contacted me and had no intention of doing so.
I went to work the next day and my colleague said he would be on leave the next day as British Gas were coming. I said "no they're not" and he rang them, and I was right. grrr.

I also remember the time I rang for a drs appointment at 10:30am because they said to ring "in the morning". They told me (again) I had to ring in the morning to get an appointment, and when I told them 10:30am is morning, apparently I was wrong. I am older and wiser now...

And seriously, your time is as important as theirs and if they don't keep an appointment you have waited in for, let them wait for you.

But can he accept the car off you, if it is in your DH's name? As they couldn't accept you having any other dealings with it? I presume there must be some paperwork needing signing?

I reckon you should just get your DH to come home for the handover and you head on to the pre-arranged lunch.

Morning is before 12, no debate.

As far as businesses go, everywhere I've ever worked I've started at 8 or 8.30 and lunch has been 12 pm on the dot. If you don't start till 9am and have lunch at 1pm do you not finish until 5.30 or 6pm?

Sue, yes, in my last job our official contracted hours were 9-630. Lunch was at 1 (if you got to take it, usually too busy). This is completely normal in my experience.

Good grief, of course morning is before noon! YANBU!

I think I would have just gone out to lunch and stuck to my original plans, OP.

If the company complained, you can tell them that you waited in all morning but they didn't show up and you had to go out in the afternoon!

There is no way that 1.30 p.m. can be considered "morning"!

Sue, at workplaces I've had "lunch" breaks at any time from 11 to 2ish
In office type jobs when everyone can down tools at the same time it's more 12-1ish, but in workplaces that need to be "manned" we would go in waves, and the first person might go at 11 and the last at 1.30/2.

""Morning is before 12, no debate.""

Argos 'Morning' delivery slots, are uptill 1pm.

My HA Morning repair slots are upto 1pm.

A lot of tradespeople work on that basis, now that we don't have a standard hour Lunch break, at 12-1.

As a pp said, so do the Utilities, now, so it seems to becoming standard.

'Morning' and 'a.m.' have different meanings. I would take morning as a flexible time, ie before lunch, which could be as late as 2. But a.m. definitely ends at noon.

If we all went back to the god old days where people got up early, with the sunrise in the summer, and were ready for lunch at 12, then this confusion would end.

we have 2 sessions at our practice for patients morning 9am-1pm and afternoon 2-5.30
so if receptionist says morning or afternoon appointment morning would be before 1pm however if someone says i need to be seen before

morning i consider before lunch, afternoon before dinner, and evening later,night is bedtime. I don't think morning / afternoon /evening/night have precise time frames they are more general times
10am is definitely morning whether 5am or 12.30pm is morning is debatable

is 5am the morning or still night ?does morning start at daylight? in which case in the north of scotland you might be at school before morning started in the winter