How infuriated has your Partner's time-keeping made you ?
How infuriated has your Partner's time-keeping made you ?
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Mr Cerbera

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5,143 posts

246 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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It's my best mate's birthday party. I promised to be there in time to help set up and after hair do and warming her pedicured tootsies in the bath I'm still waiting for her to decide the final nigfht's atire

Strewth !

oobster

7,455 posts

227 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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72 months and you haven't worked out where to post threads like this yet?

Fox-

13,447 posts

262 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Partner? Whats his name? hehe

Penny-lope

13,645 posts

209 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Buy her a watch!

Marf

22,907 posts

257 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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So leave, go and help setup as promised. Or is she too precious to arrive on her own?

Garlick

40,601 posts

256 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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She's thinking 'I've still got time, he's sat at the bloody computer again'

yoof full chav

40,643 posts

203 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Mine and her folks cause me great stress. I have to tell them we are leaving half an hour earlier than normal, just to get away on time. I tell them the time, how hard can it be to be ready for that time FFS

alfa pint

3,856 posts

227 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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It's not just her, it's the whole fking family. Complete clusterfks, the lot of them. I just ready myself and sit there with a book or the TV on awaiting the final moment when she actually announces that she's ready, has coat on, has shoes on, has keys. Then, and only then, do I get up. In winter, I sit in the car and enjoy the peace and quiet while she fks arounds. With the rest of her family, we just move the official time forward an hour.

You can't get yourself wound up about these things - she won't change. Just adapt and overcome.

yoof full chav

40,643 posts

203 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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alfa pint said:
It's not just her, it's the whole fking family. Complete clusterfks, the lot of them. I just ready myself and sit there with a book or the TV on awaiting the final moment when she actually announces that she's ready, has coat on, has shoes on, has keys. Then, and only then, do I get up. In winter, I sit in the car and enjoy the peace and quiet while she fks arounds. With the rest of her family, we just move the official time forward an hour.

You can't get yourself wound up about these things - she won't change. Just adapt and overcome.
I have told them, that from now on, if i say be ready by a certain time, and they arent, i'm refusing to go out, so the onus is on them to stop fecking about

ErnestM

11,621 posts

283 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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When telling her what time to be ready, lie to her. I would say about an hour and a half to two hours should be about right.

Liokault

2,837 posts

230 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Mine winds me up dragging everything out until we are 1/2 hour later leaving the house than the time we should actually be arriving. She will then go on to point out that its my fault we are late as I had to spend 15 seconds looking in jacket pockets for my car keys while she was "ready" by the door"

alfa pint

3,856 posts

227 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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yoof full chav said:
alfa pint said:
It's not just her, it's the whole fking family. Complete clusterfks, the lot of them. I just ready myself and sit there with a book or the TV on awaiting the final moment when she actually announces that she's ready, has coat on, has shoes on, has keys. Then, and only then, do I get up. In winter, I sit in the car and enjoy the peace and quiet while she fks arounds. With the rest of her family, we just move the official time forward an hour.

You can't get yourself wound up about these things - she won't change. Just adapt and overcome.
I have told them, that from now on, if i say be ready by a certain time, and they arent, i'm refusing to go out, so the onus is on them to stop fecking about
Often causes tears tbh. If she makes you late for her function, blame her. If her relatives are late for your dinner / drinkies / party / event, add the additional time on and then go to it regardless at the last safe moment. If you need to go and she's not ready, it's a brave man that goes without her. Or cuts his nose off to spite his face.

ESOG

1,705 posts

174 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Look up the word procrastination or late and there will be a picture of my OH. Drives me absolutely nutty!

FeatherZ

2,422 posts

212 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Every day.... i account for being atleast 30 mins late for anything.

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

233 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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Write her a strongly worded email, sign it as a company director. Then leave in your (mapped) 335d, send her an invitation for a trip up the Oxo tower, nuke her from orbit before trying to win a PH Elise to chase Wheely Girl around the place as she searches for Scott Alexander and his like of going on about things that annoy him beyond reason.

Or you could just offer a cliche or two.

Legmaster

1,242 posts

223 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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My wife is Spanish rolleyes
/endthread

g3org3y

21,619 posts

207 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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10 Pence Short said:
Write her a strongly worded email, sign it as a company director. Then leave in your (mapped) 335d, send her an invitation for a trip up the Oxo tower, nuke her from orbit before trying to win a PH Elise to chase Wheely Girl around the place as she searches for Scott Alexander and his like of going on about things that annoy him beyond reason.

Or you could just offer a cliche or two.
Or you could do nothing and just write about it in your diary.

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

233 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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laugh Touche.

yoof full chav

40,643 posts

203 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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alfa pint said:
Often causes tears tbh. If she makes you late for her function, blame her. If her relatives are late for your dinner / drinkies / party / event, add the additional time on and then go to it regardless at the last safe moment. If you need to go and she's not ready, it's a brave man that goes without her. Or cuts his nose off to spite his face.
True, but between them, they could wipe the floor with the rest of the world, if dicking about was to become an olympic sport. I've had enough of it tbh

Tango13

9,586 posts

192 months

Friday 18th February 2011
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I agree, being late is the same as saying "you and your time is unimportant to me"

That said if I arrange to meet someone and they get in contact to say they are running late I don't mind as at least they've been honest about it.