Thread: habitual tardiness...

I've strived my entire life to show up for things either on time or early. My father always told me that, "If you show up on time, you're already late."

My wife has a friend that is ALWAYS late...she isn't married, has no kids, and as far as I'm concerned, has no excuse for showing up late each and every time. I don't understand people that show up at 1130 for something that starts at 1100. This is the same friend that showed up late for a cruise and actually MISSED her ship and lost all her money since the ticket wasn't refundable. I'm interested in finding someone here that can explain this phenomenon to me...perhaps YOU are the one that is habitually late and can explain this to me...

My girlfriend it's that way, so is her ten year old daughter. The daughter just drags her feet any time she's being rushed, obstinate kid stuff I suppose. My girlfriend just always had one more thing to do to get ready. I'll sit with my keys in hand for a half hour while she keeps doing or getting one last thing finished so she can be ready to go.

Of course, then she comes to me asking "are you ready now?" Like she's been waiting on me the entire time. I've never understood it.

Originally Posted by maddafinga

Of course, then she comes to me asking "are you ready now?" Like she's been waiting on me the entire time. I've never understood it.

Same here! word for word. Must be chromosomal

i take it as a lack of respect for my time, very irritating.

In the tattoo shop I've worked at the past 16 years we had a guy like that ..... until he was late once too often. Some people ain't got there 'thing' together. Scatter brained ..... too much going on up there so they can't focus on the task at hand. Hence they are habitually late. Others are just plain lazy and irresponsible. Just IMHO.

My girlfriend tells me she's "late" all the time, but it hasn't worked out yet. I'll just keep trying.

Good luck, 35 years ago my wife was always late when we were courting,Some things never change.

I was thinking this morning as I was waiting for my wife to move out of my way so that I could prepair my breakfast. I spent half my life waiting to find the woman of my dreams and now that we are married I am spending the other half of my life waiting for her.

I couldn't even imagine being habitually late. As far as I remember, I've only been late once and that's because a dump truck rear ended a line painting truck on the highway during rush hour. And even though it was out of my hands, I still felt horrible about being late.

Here I was thinking my sister invented it. Too bad she's not alone.