If you're meeting another person, he/she's late, how long are you going to wait?

Agreed. I usually wait 10-15 minutes, then if I can (and the other person hasn't yet), I give them a call to see what's going on. If they say they're on their way, fine, I wait. Or, if they have a good reason. If not, I leave.

I am a very patient person. i can wait quite a long time for someone. i have to give them the benefit of the doubt if they are late. There could be a very good reason for it. If they are still absent after two hours, I have to assume that I have been stood up.

I wait for 15 .. I guess that is reasonable enough! Unless the person lets me know the reason for being late like she or he is already on their way and was stuck in a nasty traffic, then I can wait a bit more. But the person needs to inform me of that or Iam gone in 15 min. If person is inconsiderate, then I will not make time for them in the near future. I was raised to be on time and was trained not to let people wait for me too. So, my expectations of others are also high by not making me wait for more than 15 min. Especially if they are the one who will ride with me? I aint going to wait for them! They have to adjust on my schedule.

I also hate waiting for late comers but things changed when I became close to my friend who is always late in meet ups. Now, I can wait for an hour or even wait for 3 hours. I thought that, this attitude would only be applicable to my close friends but that is not what happened. I also became like this to most people but the thing is I can't wait for more than an hour and I usually get annoyed. As I can see there are still boundaries from close friends to not so close friends.

10 to 15 minutes sounds reasonable.

Most people are very offended when someone doesn't show enough respect to make the effort to show up for a date on time. Like most, I tend to be pretty offended by this as well. I know that sometimes things come up but t be honest with you, I usually just want to feel like the person is excited enough to see me that they are going to make sure they are there on time. Out the kindness of my heart I will usually wait about 15 minutes but that is ONLY if they have called to let me know they will be late. After we meet it's even more important that the date go very well because I would be much more inclined to not even bother to continue to get to know them if it doesn't... based on the fact that they were late in the first place.

Hi Ethanonthemoon, I agree with you. It is rude. I will wait for a bit. Maybe 15 or 20 mins like you and I might even give the person a call and then I will leave. I hate being in that spot because I actually usually wait even longer, thinking that as soon as I take off, they'll show up. I had a friend that was so famous for that. She'd call me and ask if I was going to be home next day. She'd say she was stopping by for coffee and so I would rearrange anything I had to do because I really wanted to see her. You guessed it...she was a no show. Finally I told her to just stop setting up times to meet me. If she was in town and felt like coffee then she could just knock on my door. That was preferable to being stood up.

Personally i am very punctual and believe that others also should reciprocate by being punctual too. However sometimes unknown factors intervene like a traffic jam , late running of trains, a breakdown of the car etc. In such cases if the person involved calls up and says that it will take 10 to 20 mins to come, i would be willing to come. However if the person says that it might take a couple of hours or even more then i would tell him to cancel the appointment.10 to 20 mins is reasonable but not above that. If the other person does not have the sense to call and keeps me waiting then i would walk off after 15 mins.

It is actually really funny that I come across this now because I am disgruntled about something that happened over the weekend with my playgroup. I had planned to have a playdate at the pumpkin patch and there were several families that RSVP'd to come. Well, my sister-in-law and I waited at the entrance for about 20 minutes after the scheduled time and when we didn't see the other families, we went on in. I had left my phone number as a contact in case people couldn't find us. No one called me to try to find us but the people were complaining that we weren't all able to meet up.

In my case, I think I am going to wait there until that person arrives or until he/she cancels our appointment. If there are no calls or SMS sent on his/her part, I would wait there for an hour. I think this case also depends on who are you waiting for. If it is your lover and you love him so much, you can wait for him as long as you can. If it is a friend who is always late for appointments, that you can also come to the meeting place late to take revenge. In totality, being on time is seeing the importance of every minutes and as well as respecting the person you have set that appointment with.