Do you get mad when someone you're with makes you late?

I hate to be late if there is a time fixed already for going somewhere. We have some friends too who just never learn to be on time. I don't like that at all but can't leave them for only because of that reason. May be it depends on where you are going and how ergent it is to get there on time, but for simple thing also I don't like to wait a long after I am getting ready. I can understand the feeling when you have to wait, that's why I don't make people wait for me. Always try my best to be on time.

Trust me, I understand what you are going through. I have been married to a man for over 25 years that is consistantly late for everything except his job. When we arrive at a family function on time, my whole family knows that I have told him we needed to be there at an earlier time. Yes, it is annoying, but you have to respect them for it. They are never in a rush to do anything, and they take their time. They live life on their pace, and usually it is more relaxed than ours. They also do not care what people think, and I can really respect that.

I agree and i have also had many friends like this in my time ... LOL!! My whole 25 years of it that is!! You have actually approached in a wonderful way and i do not know why some people are like this but they are almost impossible to change so you have a good tactic. Since i have became a parent i find that i have to start getting ready much earlier and i have a hard time doing soo much at once and this can make me late at times!

Yes, it makes me mad too. I don't like being late. It is rude to do that. I believe people who are constantly late, are doing it for power, and or hositilty. They may say no, so then why do it. If I were you, I would say, if they aren't ready by the agreed upon sechdule, you will leave without them.

i m a person who is very punctual but a friend of mine is such that if i tell him 2 meet at 5 he leaves home by 5.i m always kept waitin it really gets on my nerves sometimes. i have tried 2 make him understand but in vain as he is always using some xcuse i really wish 2 keep him waitin for 2-3 hrs once that should teach him

I hate it when my friends make me late, which is why with a lot of them I either arrive early at there house so that they hurry up and get ready or i tell them an earlier time so that they are ready to leave. Some people can just never be on time for anything

yes, Yes, YES! I am one of those people that just absolutely despises being late anywhere. Unfortunately, most of the women in my life (my best friend, the woman I date periodically, my son's mother...)couldn't be on time somewhere if their lives depended on it. Like you, I always tell these people I need to be somewhere an hour before I really need to be there, because then we MIGHT be on time. Time for some people really holds no meaning. None whatsoever. Why? I have no earthly idea. If you ever figure it out, by all means let me know. With my son's mother, it's taken several years, but we've finally come to an understanding about time--as you can imagine, if I'm late for some reason, she turns into a banshee... And why is that? Why is it that people that are chronically late themselves get their knickers in a twist if we that are never late happen to be late ONCE?

I don't want to offend anyone and this may not apply to all but from my experience people who don't respect time and dates usually are very selfish and don't care much about others feelings.. I can understand it when someone is held back by something or get absent minded sometimes but those who do it constantly, they just take their time and don't care if others like it or not and it will show on other aspects sooner or later with how they treat people or think of them..

Oh you hit one of my pet peeves. I have to be on time or early, there is no option for being late. So if I am waiting for you and you are making me late I will get upset. Some times things happen that are out of my control and I can live with that, but if my wife or son are just being pokey I start complaining. :)

I have a friend that's late all the time too. My whole family knows about this and it's almost become a running joke she is often so late. It does get very annoying when it directly affects me and any plans we've made, but even when I tell her a time an hour earlier, she'll still be late! UGH! I think she runs on her own time zone or something and I don't think she'll change. You know she is the kind that'll show up to mass after the serman has been read; she'll drop her son off at the end of my driveway in her PJ's cuz they got up to late to catch the bus at her house; she'll drop her son off at my house to play and say she'll be back in a couple hours and 7-8 hours will go by before she returns, etc LOL it's annoying for sure! When she signed up to teach Sunday School I thought, oh my, she dropped her son off 15-20 minutes late to begin with and then wouldn't pick him up on time either -- well I guess she figured out to go to early mass (late) so that she'd go right to Sunday School after mass! lol At least it works that way ! haha It's a hard situation -- for some events I have told her when I am leaving my house and that if she wants to go with us that she'd need to be there or else she can come on her own and we'll meet her there -- Try that - it might work and you won't feel guilty for leaving on time and it will be on her to get there late or not. Good luck~!

Well, it certainly is annoying .. and rude. I am almost always early for every appointment I make, and do not like being late under any circumstances. I would make sure that such a person didn't get a second opportunity to make me late.

That sort of thing can drive me absolutely nuts, because I am very timely person, and I believe that being "on time" is just part of the greater behavior set I'd call "common courtesy." On an intellectual level, I can understand that some people have a different "relationship" with time than I do-- but that doesn't make the annoyed feelings I get when someone makes me late go away. I did have a friend like you describe, and she was chronically late to EVERYthing. Whenever we did anything together, I had to reset my schedule to "Julie Time" so that we'd end up where we needed to be when events actually started. And I guess what eventually ended that friendship wasn't so much that she was late, but that she was endlessly complaining about "having missed" the first part of whatever she was going to. Maybe this is harsh, but lateness that affects other people's schedules and keeps them waiting strikes me as quite selfish, or self-absorbed. If you're by yourself, you can arrive whenever you want, but you don't get to "set" MY shcedule by YOUR lateness.

i am not suprise, because it's commonly happened in my country and many of people in my country give 30 minutes extra.but we can't change behaviour. it's so hard for us. much better to give extra minutes. thank you

sometime it can be real irritating... but it depends on where i'm going??? am i going for fun or anything else??? if its a serious matter then i won't tolerate late... by the way... i'm the person who cause late in most cases... [;)]

I am the type of person that is very much on time and do organize my time to be on time (very ponctual). I have a couple of friends that are always late and takes their time by the second and it kills me, because I am not like that and cannot stand it. So what I do now, is if we have someting to do at let's say 8:00, I tell them to be there at 7:15 or 7:30, just to make sure that they'll ne there. It works!

This makes me so mad. People will ask me to take them somewhere. They act like it's an emergency. When I'm ready to leave, they are not ready. That makes me so mad. I can't stant that. Lloyd

Yeah i know what you are talking about. My father is like that and it really annoys me. We joke about it and tease him all the time but its not funny when it happens and for some reason he hasnt changed. Maybe they just dont care or are really not the learning type... They leave things too late and end up being late themselves

My husband makes me MAD. He's always late. It really doesn't seem to matter where we are going either. He has absolutely no concept of time. He's very lucky he's self employed and sets his owns hours. I don't think he could keep a real job. I have no idea why some people are always late. All you can really do is lie about the time things start.

I don't know why people are like that. My brother is always late for holiday dinners. My Mom lies to him and tells him we are eating an hour earlier. It's the only way to get him there on time. I'm like you. Doesn't he know he is making everyone wait and the food is getting cold? Go figure??? . your fiend

oh really late people makes me very angry!!!!!but fren is exception ,we hve to wait ,wht ever he /she may b.i like your way of conviencing your fren,thts really nice idea to get her at right time!!!!its not a lying but its a way to bring her to exact time, i love this idea,anyway my frens r not so late. but i hve seen so many late people ,while going for shoping n office i really get annoyed!!some times speak out something bad really,,,,,