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Tonight I have a friend that is already 2 hours late in arriving, and I'm having so much fun on CD.com I've got my toes crossed that he'll call any minute and cancel so I can continue the fun.
Seriously, I learned of the cultural differences in my many trips to Latin America, reading the travel guide books where I was warned:
If a family from South America invites you to dinner some night at 7pm, don't arrive at 7pm or even 8pm or they'll never invite you back again. It's considered very rude behavior.
Over the years, I've come to understand that better. I now wish all those I invite over to my house for dinner exhibited rude behavior.
Tonight I have a friend that is already 2 hours late in arriving, and I'm having so much fun on CD.com I've got my toes crossed that he'll call any minute and cancel so I can continue the fun.
Seriously, I learned of the cultural differences in my many trips to Latin America, reading the travel guide books where I was warned:
If a family from South America invites you to dinner some night at 7pm, don't arrive at 7pm or even 8pm or they'll never invite you back again. It's considered very rude behavior.
Over the years, I've come to understand that better. I now wish all those I invite over to my house for dinner exhibited rude behavior.
My late friends aren't Latin Americans. They're just rude $%^#s. I have adopted a 'start without you' mentality. You show up late? Fine. We're starting without you. We'll be inside, seated, and we will have ordered.
Are you or is anyone you know always late for everything. My question is why? Is it caused by poor time management skills, a complete disregard for other people's time or a combination of both.
Discuss.
Well what I've noticed with chronically late people that I know is they don't plan......anything. Everything in their life is haphazard and disorganized, so being late is part of the disorganization. It irritates the crap out of me, personally. I mean, as hard as jobs are to come by these days who in their right stinking mind forgets to set an alarm or turns it off and goes back to sleep? Idiots, that's who. People who can't get their lives together to save their necks. Hmmm....didn't realize how much this bothers me.
I think that most "laters" don't realize how rude they are being. In their mind, it is not a big deal so they can't imagine how anyone else could feel that it is.
I think that most "laters" don't realize how rude they are being. In their mind, it is not a big deal so they can't imagine how anyone else could feel that it is.
I used to think that, too, and I can't abide by people who are mad at you and don't tell you why they are mad at you...so I told them. Dude, it pisses me off that you're late ALL the time.
You get one of two reactions (neither of which is for them to be on time):
1. They belittle for you for being 'uptight' OR
2. They constantly apologize but don't change their ways (this tends to be the more popular approach).
One of my friends started congratulating herself and calling attention to herself because she was only 15 or 20 minutes late a couple of times...that's like "I only gave your bf a BJ, I didn't have sex with him!"
My sister is constantly late for everything, and it ticks a lot of people off. She's late for work every single day
this is where i draw the line personally. if you're gtting paid or paying someone, it's just plain rude to be late. once or twice cause somthing happened is fine. things happen. but consistnetly is totally unacceptable in my book. anfd if you're going to be late, try to call/email ahead of time and make up the time lost.
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