Last Minute Changes, Do They Irritate You?

I can tell you Im one of those just like your friend and yes it feels like you live on a totally different planet than those organized as yourself. I would looove to be organized like that--actually I am in my home but soon as I leave it I like to let things just happen without a major plan. Ironically, I envy Martha Stewart but Im also ok with my happy go lucky laid back style and yes, it doesn't work for everyone. My friends remind me all the time when I call them up at any ungiven hour to do something and their life is in order if it doesnt fit in they just dont do it--baffling to me but I understand and just hope that somehow I eventually regroup with everyone that lives on my planet.

Yes, last minute changes irritate me, especially when they are changes made to something that took a bit of planning. I get less irritated when I have to change my schedule for a client last minute than I do when I plan a family gathering and the plans get changed last minute. Christmas was a good example this year. We had planned, for a month, to have the youngest with us on Christmas Day night. We planned everything accordingly. We planned to put out a few gifts for the othe three on Christmas Eve so they had something to open on Christmas morning, then, put the rest out on Chritmas night, so "Santa" wold have been there twice, and the kids all had a good time. On Christmas Eve, the youngest boys Mom called us and told us she would bebringing him to us at 8 a.m. on Christmas morning. This threw a big wrench in our plans. We had to get everything prepared because we knew that we would all be getting up around that time. So, my husband and I were up until the we hours of the morning, got only a couple hours of sleep, and when 8 a.m. came, she wasn't there. I figured she would be there no later than 9 a.m., so did my husband, so we waited. The kids were getting anxious and impatient. He called her at 9:30a.m., she wasn'teven on the way yet. We finally let the other kids open a few things to help ease their minds, besides, we felt it was unfair to make them continue to wait. It was 11 a.m., three hours after she told us to expect her that she finally dropped the little one off. We had changed our plans, last minute, and in the end, we could have stuck with the original plans. This was very irritating for both my husband and me.

Yeah it does irritate me when plans get changed at the last minute. But only when ive been planning something for months and then something happens at the last minute then that really irritates me.

I am like you i always have.I get really PO when people change plans at the last minute i just blow a fuse,the only time i dont t get upset is if it for a medical reason or and doing emergency .But justbecause you can i dont deal with that very well.

Small changes are OK, but bigger or frequent ones annoy me. I used to go to a gym years and years ago and the friend I went with would always phone and turn up late. In the end, I just went at the agreed time. He phoned to change the plans, but it was just too bad: I was gone. He soon learned to stick to the given time. I don't think it's petty at all: it's an agreed thing. What would she do if you changed it all?