mythreesuns

My husbands brother and his wife were always the last ones to show for a family gathering.. one time they were not the last one's.. he told her they needed to leave and come back. She is the OMT kind a person...now they each take their own vehicles to parties, because he hates to be late. lol

Ccorazone

People who are constantly late have a psylogical need for attention whether consciously or not. They crave the attention they get when they walk into a room and all eyes are on them or slighted whispers are about them.

captlynhall

I have little tolerance for people who are habitually late. They are rude, self centered and inconsiderate. I don't wait on someone more than once. If they can't be respectful of my time, then they do not deserve my time. Many years ago we used to entertain my husbands customers on our boat. After having 16 people twiddling their thumbs dockside for an hour waiting on this one couple that was habitually late, I had had enough. So the next party we told our invitees that the party starts at noon, we leave the dock at 1:00. If you aren't here, we assume you are not coming. Sure enough, we had the dock lines untied and was backing out of the slip, when I spotted them pulling into the parking lot. We did not stop, but left them behind. They wound up paying another boat $50 to bring them out to our boat when we anchored. Serves them right. If you let someone abuse your friendship by making you wait on them over and over, it shows that they care very little about you. They are not worth being friends with.
Sorry folks, but as you can tell, this really gets my goat.

NJ Quilter

I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one offended by other's habitual lateness. I agree with many others here who have said it's disrespectful, rude, etc. I really try to be tolerant but sometimes it just annoys the living daylights out of me.

BKrenning

My brother-in-law's wife is always late to events at our home but always shows up to work on time or even early so we know how we rank on her priority scale and don't wait for them or anyone else any more. There is no way in H-E-double hockey sticks that hubby or I would ever wait on someone for 2 hours especially if we were getting on an airplane. He always wants to be way too early and just making him hold off so that we are no more than 15 minutes early stresses us both out.