People using up your time

Indie_Kid

I used to know someone like this:
He once agreed to meet me at 6pm and picked me up 6.15pm with the excuse of running out of petrol. (funny how this has never happened to anyone else?)
If it was a morning, he'd always be late with the excuse of oversleeping.

I'd get a right telling off if I was two minutes late.

I gave up in the end because he was either at least 15 minutes or very early. When he was very early, he'd whinge at me for making him wait. I'm not rushing myself because you've decided to turn up early.

I have a friend who picks me up on a Wednesday at 6.45pm. It's done on the understanding that because he comes from another town, he might be a few minutes late. He's been picking me up most weeks for some 2 years now. I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times he's been late. If he's a few minutes late, he won't (and no, I don't moan either) say anything. I remember one time, he sent me a text and said there's traffic / roadworks and he'll be late. Fine. He was some 15 minutes late.

Andypandyboy

I just think that some folk have no self awareness.

BarryBlue

SavingPennies wrote: »

Nothing wrong with having chat with the cashier if no-one else is waiting, but otherwise holding other people up in a queue is just plain rude, and I sometimes feel like some people do it on purpse.

This, exactly! A bit of polite chat while the cashier is doing something is not the problem. What I can't be doing with is when they have paid, bagged up, trolley ready to go, and they start nattering about grandkids or similar nonsense. I would always make a comment that people are waiting and start handing items to the cashier to scan.

roses

motorguy wrote: »

Parking on a petrol pump forecourt to go in to the shop, instead of using the parking spaces provided, meaning cars have to wait to use those pumps until you come back out

I do this but that's only because surely by switching on your engine. moving it 5m across the forecourt, parking, getting out, going in the shop etc takes the person paying longer plus it's not great for the car plus not particularly environmentally friendly?

BigAunty

Having a flash back to a relative turning up nearly 2 hours late for the 60th birthday meal of my MIL - we had already eaten by that time.

He had ignored advice to take the new more direct train service but had still left very late anyway, departing at least an hour later he should have .

When challenged, he threw a hissy fit as if we were to blame for it and we ought to feel lucky that he'd even bothered coming. So that pretty much spoiled the afternoon for the birthday girl because he was so sulky.

So I do feel there is something in a tardy person that makes them feel their time is more valuable than yours and that there is something special about them which means they don't have to follow common courtesy.

He also pitched up at a concert very late. He'd been given somebody else's tickets as a birthday treat for him. The tickets were for a performer who rarely ever performs and he only had to travel an hour to reach the concert, unlike the other people who travelled hundreds of miles. He hadn't even left his house by the time he was supposed to meet people outside the gig. He nearly caused them to miss the first half of the gig as late comers were not admitted. He already knew that the person who booked the gig belonged to the fan club and wanted to enter the gig from Doors Open to meet other fans, buy souvenirs and so forth. Instead, they all had to dash for their seats at curtain up despite going out of their way to treat him for his birthday.

I think sometimes it goes beyond being a bit disorganised and there is something very wilful and selfish about it.

motorguy

roses wrote: »

I do this but that's only because surely by switching on your engine. moving it 5m across the forecourt, parking, getting out, going in the shop etc takes the person paying longer plus it's not great for the car plus not particularly environmentally friendly?

Oh aye, if you're getting fuel too, i've no issues. Its the people who rock up and park in the middle of the petrol pumps then go in for shopping.

amistupid

It's infuriating to be behind someone in a supermarket queue, who's trying trying their seventh credit card to buy a packet of crisps.

starrystarry

Andypandyboy wrote: »

I just think that some folk have no self awareness.

I almost think the opposite. They're fully self-aware but have no awareness of anybody else. They drive me up the wall.

Supermarkets are the worst places for dawdlers. And the post office of course. The number of times I've had to stand in a queue at the post office while someone at the counter witters on about where they're going on holiday. I don't give a !!!!. I shouldn't think the person serving them does either. Just take your euros and get out the road.

Indie_Kid

amistupid wrote: »

It's infuriating to be behind someone in a supermarket queue, who's trying trying their seventh credit card to buy a packet of crisps.

I remember doing that. I was told by the cashier that it was me and I needed to go to see my bank. It was their end and nothing to do with me.

Piggywiggy

It annoys me when people are late without sending a text or a quick phone call to say they sorry they running late, sometimes you can spend a few hours waiting for someone when you could have been doing something else.