Waiting in for people who don't turn up on time.....

[Cloo]

We've had a lot of this with builders/kitchen/bathroom quotes - luckily in the evening, not the daytime. We've noticed that if they're going to turn up, they'll call you within half an hour - if more than that goes by and they don't call, then they're not turning up at all.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The woman never turned up btw...........................

Grrr.....I think we should organise us a posse and head over to her place with flaming torches....

 

[quimcunx]

Further to the above, I get the feeling it's often a status thing. Sort of "I'm so important and I've got so many people to see who are more rich and important than you that I'll turn up when I'm done with them first - as befits your lowly status".

This is very true. a friend of mine was always late, always busy, always full social life, always busier than mine, text you 1min before she was meant to meet you to say she was going to be what would turn out to be an hour late, schedule me in for a wednesday coffee. then my life got more busy and she got married, moved a bit further out and so many times on the phone when I hadn't seen her for a while. 'oh, I remember when it was me who was busy all the time....' the obvious connotation being, I'm the one that's meant to be too busy to meet you not the other way round, my poor status

 

[geminisnake]

Christ, if someone was late and told me it was becuase they'd changed their mind over their clothes I'd launch them through the nearest plate glass window

My mate just said 'what were you thinking, you know you shouldn't make your mind up the day before'. Bless him, he knows what I'm like And I was giving him a lift so there.

 

[quimcunx]

Which is why I'll always catch the train before the one I need, just in case this happens. Or leave enough time for the tube in case the line I need to use is unexpectedly on the blink and I need to use another route.

But my friend does this and is always early. then phones me 10 mins before we're meant to meet which makes me feel flustered especially if I am running a few minutes late.

 

[Cloo]

Christ, if someone was late and told me it was becuase they'd changed their mind over their clothes I'd launch them through the nearest plate glass window

Sounds like a mate of mine - once it was 'I can't find my shoes' (he has about a zillion pairs), another time, when I'd gone over to his to try and get him running on time, we left the house for me to be told he'd got to go and get his haircut, for which he'd somehow made an appointment at about 8.30 in the evening!

 

[lynne8]

Christ, if someone was late and told me it was becuase they'd changed their mind over their clothes I'd launch them through the nearest plate glass window

 

[butterfly child]

I have a friend who lives in Streatham, he was always late for everything.

Often, he would ring me when I'd already got to where we were due to meet and say "I'm running late, do you mind if we meet in two hours?"

Of course I fucking mind, two fucking hours?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, in the end I told him how I felt, it got quite heated. He said I didn't understand how difficult it was to get into town from Streatham. I pointed out that I had to come even further into fucking London and that he was self-centred and inconsiderate..

We didn't talk for about a year.

Recently he phoned me and asked if we could meet up, which we did and he was early for. He told me that he'd had lots of time to think (yeah, like a year?) and realised he had been inconsiderate in expecting me to wait hours for him to turn up and that he had addressed his lax approach to time keeping.

For various reasons, we haven't hooked up since, so time will tell whether he has improved or not!