Would you find this bad manners?

[Baobuns]

If a friend asked you to meet somewhere (to help her with something) and you arranged to meet at 2pm. It takes you an hour to get there. Then at 1:40pm she tells you she'll be there at about 5pm now as she's ended up meeting a friend.
Surely this is incredibly rude? So I've got there 3 hours early for nothing? If she had an emergency or traffic etc. It's different

She seems awful. A very rude thing to do and an extremely shitty response. Yes, distancing from her is a must! You don't need friends like that.

I’d have gone home, but only after confirming that I’d meet her at 5 (clearly wouldn’t, but she should have to do the wasted drive etc)

You didn't wait did you OP?

I'd tell her I could no longer meet her as I was only planning to be there 2 and a half hours. I'd go home.

Rude and very bad mannered

I too would have turned around and gone home.

I hope you did

It's seriously rude op and shows a complete lack of manners!

Appalling behaviour from her!
I hope you told her that's not going to work for you and left?- please tell me you didn't hang about for 3 hours and wait for her?

no thats just rude-i assume shes always like this

I'd have been home again by 3pm and not bothering with this "friend" anymore.

You should go home. I had a friend who asked to meet up with me to do a bit of shopping and to go to dinner together so I travelled to her town (nearly 2 hours for me). She was half an hour late and then said she could only stay for 20 minutes because she had arranged to meet a guy. I didn't consider her to be a friend after that.

Friend can’t want the help that badly