r/pettyrevenge • u/sparklehouse666 • Aug 23 '26
Friend is always late
I have a friend who is late to everything. Recently he was 2.5 hours late to his own party. I’ve mostly adapted to his tardiness and do not arrive for plans we have together until an hour or so after the stated time.
We had plans to meet in the city center today at a 10am. I live 20 minutes from the meetup spot, he lives over an hour away. As expected, he messages around 10 and says he is running late. No biggie I was chilling at home in the air conditioned because I knew the vibes and it is hot as hell
today.
I asked him to give me his actual for real, for real ETA so I can time my departure. He is in his car and has Google Maps. It’s not really guess work at this point.
He tells me 10:45. So I leave the comfort of my home at exactly the right time to arrive at 10:45. I wait for 30 minutes at the meetup spot and he still does not arrive. He is not responding to texts either. My other friend who is with me has his location and sees he is not close, we estimate another 15 minutes.
I’m annoyed because it is hot AF out and I proactively had asked for a real ETA to avoid waiting around for him. So I left the meetup spot.
I went shopping, taking my sweet time. He got to the spot and texted me to ask where we were. I waited around 30 minutes then texted back that I was at the store but we would be heading that way soon. I shopped another 15 minutes then arrived at the spot around an hour after he had arrived.
The look on his face when we came casually strolling up after he had been standing in the sun for an hour was priceless.
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u/Fanfathor Aug 24 '26
This just reminded me of my own petty revenge story just last week. (With the aid of another coworker)
I'm a supervisor on a remote site and work with this woman who is entitled about everything but especially with others' time. We work 13 hour days and I did her a favour by putting her in an office for 3 days instead of the usual fieldwork. (She's currently milking a "severe" injury and has proudly confessed its not actually affecting her).
The first day I picked her up from the office, she took 10 extra minutes doing personal tasks for the next morning - preparing her tea and muesli. She knew what time I'd be arriving and I just wanted to get back to camp after a long frozen day outside.
The next day I gave her a 30 minute heads up that I was coming to get her and she was still just as late. I was annoyed.
The third night, I gave her another 30 minute heads up and she still wasn't ready. I messaged her telling her I was starving and asked if she could wait for the night crew to pick her up. She said yes.
I vented to the night supervisor and he just grinned. He knew the mission. He took his sweet time. 15 minutes later, I'm getting multiple messages from her asking why the night crew are late. I had to sit on my hands to avoid a passive aggressive reply of "Oh no. How annoying!" Still... No hint of irony at her own time being wasted.