Woman asks if she's in the wrong for bailing on her friend after she was 30 minutes late for lunch
Topics: Life, Reddit, Social Media
Niamh Shackleton
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Topics: Life, Reddit, Social Media
We've all got that one friend who is always late.
Some friends are so notorious for their lateness that their pals will even tell them an earlier time to meet up compared to everyone else.
And this is something that this woman may have wished that she did as she ended up waiting 30 minutes for her male friend to turn up to their lunch date.
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Taking to Reddit to share her experience, the unnamed 32-year-old woman penned: "This friend is always late to everything.
"Being late is fine, however in this day and age of mobile phones I have strong feelings that one should try to notify a person if they are running significantly late to a date/meeting."
I mean, dropping someone a text or phone call if you're running behind isn't a lot to ask...
The Redditor proceeded to explain that she turned up at the agreed time of 12pm but, by 12:30pm, there was no sign of her pal.
Since she hadn't heard from him and he was the one that was late, the woman felt it was her job to contact him to see where he was, and simply left the venue.
Then, after being almost 40 minutes late, her friend text her to say he'd arrived and asked where she was.
"The thing is, I knew he hadn't forgotten our lunch date and that he was just being his usual late self. But I was sick of it," she further fumed on Reddit.
"At 12.38, so nearly 40 minutes after our arranged time, I got a message from him saying, 'I'm here, where are you?' I replied with, 'I assumed you weren't coming so I went home'. I then refused to drive back to the cafe to have the lunch."
Sharing her query on an 'Am I The A**hole' (AITA) thread, she asked her fellow social media users if she was in the wrong.
"Perhaps now he'll learn to not be so flippant with your time. This kind of behaviour is infuriating. A text is not difficult to send," one person replied.
"Your friend is rude and clearly values their time more than your own. You shouldn’t have to chase them up and accommodate them as if they were a child," echoed a second.
A different person wrote: "40 minutes is a f**k you!"
Others felt that they were partially both in the wrong: him for not calling her to say he was late, and her for not calling him to say she was leaving.
"He was rude by being late and not calling. You were rude by leaving and not calling," one person wrote bluntly.
"I can understand being annoyed at waiting so long, but at least tell him you're leaving," said another.
In my opinion, the guy shouldn't have been late in the first place... but what do you think?