Up, Down and All Around

Tardiness and Respect

I find it particularly difficult dealing with people who are always late.

I mean, once or twice is acceptable and forgivable. But always late? And always more than 40 minutes late? It shows a lack of respect for the other person's time.

Among all the people I know who always show up late, there's one who really takes the cake. JG called me and asked to meet me at noon the next day. I called her at 11:40am on the day itself to say I'm on my way and to check that the meeting is still on. She tells me she's running late and requests that we move our meet to 1pm.

I wonder if she would have bothered to call me and request that we move our meeting time if I hadn't called her. For all I know, I would have been sitting alone looking like an idiot waiting until she arrived at 1pm. * Sigh *

And you know, despite readjusting the time to 1pm, she was still 40 minutes late. And her excuse is -- I had to stop by my house first because I needed to print something for you. Duh? I didn't ask for any printout. And besides, didn't you know you wanted to print something before you reset the time?

Hay... enough griping. My only consolation is that I'm now more confident in my ability to assess someone's character, because I didn't like her the first time I met her over 9 months ago. And each of my encounters with her just reinforces my already bad first impression.

I wish I didn't have to deal with her at all, but unfortunately, that's not the way life works.

Tags: Personal, Relationships

Posted by CF at 11:05 PM