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Kattie E
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Ever set up a lunch with a friend who you know is habitually late? I cannot stand folks being late. I'm not sure how to remedy this situation. I won't be late and I do not like to sit and wait.
mei lan
Pursuit Driver
gog8tors said:
Yeppers. If you believe the friendship to be valuable enough to keep, then adjust your strategery. I have a good bit of experience with this...I have a very dysfunctional friend who makes spending time with her PAINFUL if I apply regular expectations to our outings. But since I think I should still keep her in my life, I've adjusted my expectations accordingly and now enjoy my time with her more. In this friend's case, she's not late, but she's slow as frickin' Christmas, and self-sabotaging, so that any move she makes is automatically going to be the most inconvenient one. Now, when I'm with her, I automatically expect to be gone three times too long for dinner, to eat at the stupidest restaurant of whatever the choices are, sit in the most annoying spot in the movie theatre, etc. Also, I have great compassion for this girl, because she really has had a dysfunctional life and she's better than she used to be.
You can't control how people behave, but you can control how you respond to their behavior. Either don't do things with her, or adjust your behavior and expectations. Again, I speak from experience.
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Kattie E
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mei lan said:
We all have our faults. You're a good friend mei lan. Yes, she's a keeper and I will just deal with it. :angel
mei lan
Pursuit Driver
Madea said:Oh! I need that!I guess none of you would want to lunch with me. :'(
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Madea
zip a dee doo dah
mei lan said:Madea said:Oh! I need that!
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Thanks! :hug I bet Kattie would too, we'd just have to fudge some times. ;D
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Kattie E
Guest
unionmom said:Get your friend one of these ...
wonder where they sell those! that's great! :laugh
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Kattie E
Guest
Madea said:mei lan said:Madea said:Oh! I need that!
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Thanks! :hug I bet Kattie would too, we'd just have to fudge some times. ;D
Any day my lovely Madea friend! :hug
Madea
zip a dee doo dah
Kattie E said:Madea said:mei lan said:Madea said:Oh! I need that!
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Thanks! :hug I bet Kattie would too, we'd just have to fudge some times. ;D
Any day my lovely Madea friend! :hug
If you ever come to town to visit with GC, he had BETTER let me know! I would LOVE to meet you!
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Kattie E
Guest
Madea said:Kattie E said:Madea said:mei lan said:Madea said:Oh! I need that!
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Thanks! :hug I bet Kattie would too, we'd just have to fudge some times. ;D
Any day my lovely Madea friend! :hug
If you ever come to town to visit with GC, he had BETTER let me know! I would LOVE to meet you!
We would have a grand time!
Madea said:Kattie E said:Madea said:mei lan said:Madea said:Oh! I need that!
:raisinghand: I would! :love
Actually, re: lunch, my punctuality depends on where I'm coming from. If I'm working from home, like now, I am on time. But when I was working for a hectic architectural firm, I was often late or had to reschedule. I would always call teh person I was having lunch with, though.
Thanks! :hug I bet Kattie would too, we'd just have to fudge some times. ;D
Any day my lovely Madea friend! :hug
If you ever come to town to visit with GC, he had BETTER let me know! I would LOVE to meet you!
Sis and I have talked on the phone many times and I'd LOVE to actually meet her in person. Sadly, we've said that we'd either meet here, there or in the air....but we will at some point. But it would be great to have a BIG HWY Get-Together that she could attend. In the mean time, we're going to make a big sign with her name on it and have a picture taken at our next Coffee Meeting to send her ;D
On the subject, if I'm 15 minutes early to anything, that means that I'm 30 minutes late
I can't STAND to be late for anything. I forgot to take my phone off the charger last night after the Braves yearly collapse. It wakes me at 4:30 AM. Mrs. Colson woke me at 5 AM and I shot out of bed like I'd been shot out of a cannon. As I was getting ready to leave, it occurred to me that I would still be 30 minutes early, so I only drove to work at WARP 1 instead of WARP 10. 8)
naturegirl
Rolling down the highway
LOL!! I'm either very early or late, somehow life gets in the way. ~sigh~ I helped teach some classes once and the main instructor told us "early is on time, on time is late". I guess some band director somewhere told him that and it stuck with him.
On the other note, Kattie it would be awesome to meet you. :love VA is so far away!! So let's all go to Myrtle Beach, I'm thinking it's about 1/2 way. Or Wilmington, NC we could all pile up at AtlantDav's house. ;D
I've never spent time with a more caring, funny and entertaining group than those here on the highway. Even though we've never met Kattie , I sure feel like you're family!! :hug
On the other note, Kattie it would be awesome to meet you. :love VA is so far away!! So let's all go to Myrtle Beach, I'm thinking it's about 1/2 way. Or Wilmington, NC we could all pile up at AtlantDav's house. ;D
I've never spent time with a more caring, funny and entertaining group than those here on the highway. Even though we've never met Kattie , I sure feel like you're family!! :hug
deewee
Pursuit Driver
I used to NEVER run late, then I met M & boys. Seems I can't make it anywhere on time if we're all together now...except to work. That is the one thing that everyone knows they'd better get ready fast or be left behind.
(The boys go to work with me a lot when they're out of school. The boss lady brings her son too)
(The boys go to work with me a lot when they're out of school. The boss lady brings her son too)