How do you react to excuses?

I feel, those who escape the reality with excuses and do not have the guts to be responsible of their acts are coward. Having seen my supposedly close ones putting up false promises and giving shallow excuses on breaking them, I have stopped reacting to them completely. PS: Your icon matches with that blue star, my positive ratings did have their say afterall. Thanks.

I have a group of friends in which some turn late always..when we plan to go out somewhere and they turn late and telling some lame excuses it just irritates & worries me..since as iam being a punctual person.. I excuse those who have genuine reasons for their late arrival but when it keep on contuinuing.. it annoys me.. I also feel excuses are allowed only for a certain reasons and when it creates a huge damage because of number of mounting excuses..i think its time for us to reform ourselves..as this not only creates a black mark on us but also makes someone else to suffer and incurr loss..

hello there balasri, Actually i react on their excuse based on the situation. For an example, if one of my friend promised something to me and they wasn't able to do do it because of some reasonable matters i might as well forgive them since its the first time but if somehow they would do it again I won't tolerate their excuse anymore and instead i might get a bit mad at them for doing so. but in my case, since im usually late for school it is really a bit hard to think of an excuse for my first class teacher since that im not really used to telling lies. thats why instead of lying I usually just tell my teacher the real reason why i was late. Well I guess its better to be honest instead of lying and trying to tell all those ridiculous excused... ^_^

I just try to evaluate how genuine is the excuse for coming late, if it is genuine then I do not treat it as an 'excuse'. If someone breaks the promise and come out with unconvincing excuse, then I take it very seriously and see to it that I be more careful in future with that fellow who breaks the promise.

Well Balasri, I usually react calmly but firmly, telling the person/(s) that this is the 1st but also the last time that I'll make an exception for my rule to NOT accept excuses, and to do themselves and me a favor, and to not repeat this again with me :) TheFortunes

Thanks for your good social life question. Excuses is good to apply in the sense that for life secrecy to make safe our life. But if to take it for oneself benefit by causing damage to our partner or society or organization it will be flame to cause big fire. I will observe the excuse issue carefully whether it was a human bad habitual reason or technical reason. And I will take action by psychology affects and effects on them. Without spending my time for oral session to solve this kind of issue, to let them feel the deep self-guilty that can lead them sincerely dictate themselves for not to pursue recurrence.

I think excuses are just a way of getting away with doing the wrong thing over and over again. People like this should stop excusing themselves and start doing the right thing. Everyone has the right to be excuse ,but as long as it doesn't become a habit.