Excuses that really piss you off....

[squirtymcsquirterson]

Just want to know I'm not alone in hating ridiculous excuses!! Was messaging a guy who then blanked me completely....for two months!!! Then messages me yesterday with a 'sorry been busy' - well I saw red! Maybe OTT but what excuses really make the red mist descend for you??

'I didn't see your text!' My husband uses this one a lot and unfortunately it's a valid one for him. He gets so engrossed in stuff he doesn't notice his phone light up or buzz. Frustrating though when I'm trying to get hold of him.

I dont mind reasons, but all excuses piss me off.

Yeah 'busy' pisses me off - no one is so busy they don't have 30 seconds to send a text. They just couldn't be arsed.

People who say things like 'oh, I'm so crap at remembering to respond to messages', as if this somehow makes them a sweet ditsy little thing we should all indulge.

In work, the old "what email? I haven't received anything " - usually by someone has communicated dozens of times by email but when it comes to bills and invoices , suddenly they aren't receiving any emails :/
Same with voicemails etc "oh I haven't seen any missed calls or voicemails "

YES you have , stop making excuses !!

People who are late for everything and they say things like "I was busy". We are all busy it's just bloody rude to be consistently late

A man good for excuses is seldom good for anything else.

That an adult, in full possession of all his or her faculties somehow couldn't help something. Usually some form of racism for some reason. yes they bloody can help it.

People who say "I'm always late it's just what I'm like as a person "

I don't always have my phone with me - it seems beyond some people's ken that I may not actually have seen ANY messages for 5 hours.

friend: "why didn't you respond?"
me " didn't have my phone"
friend "why not?"
me "didn't want to be distracted"
friend "what if it is an emergency?"
me "was it?"
friend "no", "but what if?"
me - "what if it was an emergency and I'd lost my phone, run out of charge, been in a shop/area when you don't get signal, had my phone nicked - or just didn't hear it ring?"
friend "hrmphhhhhhhhhhh"

a text is not "urgent" by its very nature, why do they warrant an immediate response?

A friend blew me out once with the excuse that she couldn't meet up because she'd eaten too much fruit. I never saw her again. Thought that was novel.

Urgh! Years ago I met a guy online and had (what I thought was) a great date - dinner, drinks and a little kiss at the station.
He then messaged me 3 whole weeks later. I was furious but didn't want to cut my nose off to spite my face so I agreed to meet up with him.
For me, the chemistry had gone and I'd lost all respect for him. I was pleasant but left after about a hour or so and turned my cheek when he tried to kiss me when we left.
@squirty - what have you said to him?

Cousin's husband didn't turn up to (very small) family Christmas party because he was 'making soup' - he'd only known about the party for 3 months....

I dislike weedy excuses. If someone doesn't want to come to something I would far rather they were honest and said it wasn't their thing rather than make something up.

The other one that annoys me is when someone justifies their rudeness by saying that they are an introvert. Most introverts I know are lovely, quiet people, but I work with one who has a "fuck you" attitude and sullen personality and then blames it on being an introvert. No you are you are just being rude.

I hate people who are late and say shit like

"Sorry I'm late, the traffic was awful"

When they KNOW the traffic is ALWAYS awful on that route. They should have left earlier!

My favourite was a couple who we considered good friends who told us they couldn't afford to come over for dinner even though we insisted they not bring wine or dessert

Any excuse which a grown adult seems to think is entirely beyond their control when it isn't.

I didn't check the time
I missed the train
I woke up late
I forgot (for repeat offenders First timers get a chance!)
etc

DottyPi maybe she had the runs

People that tell you things too late annoy me. Someone I know has done this twice -
said they will be on the 10am train (which means they had to catch it their end at 7am) so I'm on my way to the station for 10am and at 9.55am they text to say they are on the 11am train. They've known since 7am that they are not on the right train.
The second time I didn't leave until they'd arrived.

My dd1 dad couldn't come out for a meal on her birthday because he had a dentist appt ?! Mmmm you've known this date was her birthday for the last 20 odd years -

"But I didn't mean it, i was drunk" looking at you mil who thinks it's ok to neck a bottle of wine then throw insults at me

I've learned that being drunk is now an excuse for rudeness. And that people usually say what they mean when drunk. There are only three things in the world which tell the truth: children, leggings and drunk people.

"I never got that text/email. How weird!"

This is never ever genuine. And it's almost never from a plausible source i.e. Someone who may have copied your number down wrong/someone who doesn't know how to use email/someone with a really old phone.
It's always from people who use electronic communication as if it's the life blood itself and spend their lives checking their phones.

Cousin's were invited to our wedding. Said they could definitely come to reception but not ceremony. Through the day, people put pictures on Fbook. Cousin's liked and commented on pictures. Cousin's didn't show.

Asked them why the next day, Aunt said, "oh we forgot, we thought it was next week" no you didn't, you liked and commented on day time pictures. She was adamant they didn't but they all had.

Not spoken to them since.

There are only three things in the world which tell the truth: children, leggings and drunk people.
When I'm drunk, I tell outrageous lies! I really enjoy winding people up, and I don't care if what I'm saying is true or not. Tis one of the many reasons I never get drunk any more.

My favourite was s friend who turned up 4 hours late for a BBQ saying she was tired so had a nap first and then needed a bath.

Unfortunately there was no food left by the time she turned up and most of my other friends and their kids were leaving.

Friend, term used v loosely, arranged to meet me at a local restaurant one Friday evening.

I was pregnant, really sick but made the effort to get ready and turned up on time.

Sat by myself for 30 minutes and texted to ask where friend was?

Reply was, "sorry babe, just didn't feel like going out, had busy week!"

Obviously an ex friend!

Still annoys me over 4 years later!