While I'm waiting...

[desperance]

Hee. I am the world's most oppressively punctual person, especially when I'm waiting to be picked up; ready early, already pacing and scowling and glancing at watches ten minutes before my lift is due.

By contrast, none of my friends is punctual. At all. If the phone rings ten minutes before my lift is due, I don't even need to answer it; I just know, they're running late, they'll be an extra half-hour or whatever. It's astonishing that I have any friends left at all. By rights, they should all have disowned me by now, on account of the black looks and the snarking and the silent longsuffering and the occasional holding forth on discourtesy, etc.

However, here's an unexpected bonus: while I'm waiting, I don't actually have to pace and scowl. I can turn my computer back on again and play on LJ.

As it happens, I'm waiting for LJers: shewhomust and durham_rambler and I are heading north, via samarcand's new house, to a wee fishing village on the Northumberland coast, where we shall celebrate the wedding of m'friend'n'colleague Val McDermid and m'new publisher Kelly Smith. This for values of "wedding" that obviously include love'n'affection and so forth, plus complete religious & conservative disapprobation, hurrah! So we're going to party & dance & stay over in a pub. It'll be good. Eventually.

[Note to self: do not snark. These people read this journal.]

Comments

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you had a fabulous time.

I am punctual to a fault. I wait 15 minutes, and then I'm gone unless they've called with a good and TRUE excuse. And I expect/demand people I meet to be punctual as well.

To me, lateness is a sign of disrespect, and I won't waste my valuable time with people who cannot show me even this most basic respect.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I'm early every where. I've been known to arrive at a friends' house half an hour early and have to go and find a coffee bar nearbye so I won't arrive while they are still in their undies.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

ps., And post wedding pictures!

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

I have become increasingly aware that, of late, I have been getting less and less punctual. And I hate it... I agree with devon that it does indeed show disrespect but I just don't seem to be able to get over the hump of knowing that when we've got Max to organise as well as ourselves we need to start getting ready half an hour before we think we need to.

Still, it was good to see you briefly on Saturday and for slightly longer (until you got dragged off to get lectured about boats...) on Sunday.