Always late!

I have quite a number of them. I had invited this couple for lunch and had made a special salad beautifully decorated specially in their honour. Enough is enough I thought. My husband and I started to have the food and cut straight into the salad. They did arrive and I made a mention of the salad. I am not sure whether they changed their ways even thereafter! There is this family that tends to make a 'grand appearance' at parties and every one waits for them. I do not. I get on with the party without them. There is no other way! I am very punctual.

I really dislike it when my company arrives late or if we are out somewhere and we are suppose to meet up at a certain time and the people I'm meeting with are late. I am always on time, if I am going to be late (which rarely happens) I will call and say "Hey, I'm running a little late, but I will be there." I want to watch the Christmas parade on the tele tomorrow morning with the kids. We missd the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, so I really want to see the Christmas parade. I have friends that are late, and I have friends who never even bother calling or picking up the phone. Geesh, no wonder why I don't show up half the time. I can't make plans if no one is on the receiving end.

My boyfriend has a bad tendency to run late. He spent a number of years in a country where they are a bit more "relaxed" about being punctual, and I guess that affected him. I often find myself having to push him to get ready so that we get to places on time. I find it nice to be able to find parking that isn't several blocks away... I grew up in a household where my parents were early bird types--sometimes, annoyingly so. If they were going somewhere, they would be up and on the road early. They would typically head out to go shopping early in the morning and be back by early afternoon, since the closest major stores were a bit of a drive from where they lived.

Teenagers are always like that like my son and daughter. I feel annoyed with them being late. They don't know the value of time. Anyway, let us not feel annoyed this season. It will ruin the holiday spirit. I wish you will enjoy the holiday with friends and family. Merry christmas!

I'm not bothered by people who are late, I also am sometimes and my country's culture doesn't value punctuality so much. But I demand to be announced before and I expect the person to estimate the time he/she will be late. It's such a bad habit, to call and say "oh, sorry, i will arrive in 30 more minutes" and than to arrive in 1 hour. I can't at least well schedule what I can do in the meantime.

Actually i am the person who is always later for datings with my BF. But if i have some important datings, i will arrive there on time to make a good impression.

Because I pride myself on my reliability and always leaving ample time in case there are hold ups, I get annoyed when people fail to turn up on time. I have made the effort, so why can't they. I had a friend who was forever turning up late, there was always some excuse, I gave up moaning at them, because they wouldn't change, part of me thought if they are going to be late, so shall I, but that's not me, I don't lower my principles for others, friend or not. Some people just have no clear idea of time management.

I used to have few friends like that... I think its very rude to disrespect someone else's time like that... Especially if i had to call them to find out they're gonna be late... There was one time a friend asked me if i wanted to have lunch... Make a long story short, we decided to meet at 1 at a restaurant... I showed up 5 minutes before the 1 & waited till 1:15 & he wasnt there yet... So i called him & he says, "Oh, yeah... Something came up & i won't be there till 2:30"... So i told him not to bother... He couldn't pick up the phone & call me? Same person asked me about 6 month later if he could borrow some money from me... So i told him i could meet him around 1 at the same restaurant... Then i didn't bother showing up... Around 1:45, he calls me up wondering why i didn't show up, I told him, "Oh, yeah... About that... Something came up... If you still need some money, you can come by my house around 6 & pick it up...!!!" Then around 5:30, I went out with bunch of friends & I never heard from this guy again... I guess he didn't really need that money...

Yes, our son is nearly always late. However, he is getting married again soon. His new wife-to-be is a business woman who understands the need for punctuality. I believe that things will improve. As to how we dealt with his lateness, we just learned to expect him when we saw him pull into the driveway. I really believe that his previous wife was a big part of why he was late.

i have a friend which i have to wait for every morning before going to school and she is always late. she prevent me from getting in the school early. i start to help her pack her things the day before and now we are early birds...