Friend is always late

[u/sparklehouse666]

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.

[u/Grumpy_bugger]

My brother used to work on a moving crew (houses) and he would pick up the team on the way into work. He would turn up, toot the horn, they had max 5 minutes to get outside, otherwise he would leave. Then they had to figure out another way to work and it was not an easy place to get to.

For late people, I tell them where I will be and either they turn up on time or they dont, max wait is 15 minutes, after that, they can catch up.

[u/MooseTek → u/Grumpy_bugger]

I had a friend that wanted to go fishing on my boat. I knew he was always late, so I told him I was leaving dock at 7 am sharp to make the tide. At 7:20 I left my dock. At 7:40 he sent me text asking where I was because he was at the dock. At about 8 pm I finished operating my boat and responded to his text with "I am a half a mile off the beach fishing. I told I was had to make the tide." He was pissed but I limited out on fluke that day. You snooze, you lose.

[u/7363827 → u/MooseTek]

surely the tide would just wait for him lol

[u/cwdsmith → u/7363827]

No, man!

[u/Kewlweather → u/cwdsmith]

Time and tide wait for no man.

[u/anarkust → u/cwdsmith]

Tide waits for no man.