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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (60140)	9/27/2002 5:43:22 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I like considerate people. The reason I want an explanation and apology is to be able to determine if this person is, by nature, inconsiderate, as, if they kept me waiting for 30 minutes for no good reason and with no regret, I will conclude they are; or if, alternatively, they had a flat tire. I have a friend whose life is hectic and whose personality is kind of scattered, and she is always late. The reason I accept this, and her, is that she feels terrible about how late she is, each time! Genuinely! It's a sort of dysfunction, and she lets me know that it isn't a matter of not caring about my time. There are many situations in which having reading matter with you isn't good enough. For example, if, to be on time yourself, you have shortchanged someone who would have liked more of your time, or left a task you might have completed undone. That will rankle, as it should. Or you are meeting at a crowded restaurant at which you have reserved a table, but can't be seated until all or most of your party is there. Or if you are meeting outdoors, and it's wet, or chilly, out. Or if the place you are directed to wait is the restaurant's bar, and you don't drink and don't feel like sitting on a stool and drinking water while your friend takes her own sweet time. Or if you are meeting at a party at which you know only the friend or friends who told you to meet them there at 8:00, and there you are among strangers for a half hour. All I require is the conviction that the person who has appeared inconsiderate and disrespectful of me and my time really isn't. The usual way a late friend communicates that is with an explanation and an apology.