How patient can you be?

I am usually a very patient person - but one of my biggest pet peeves are people who are late. I don't have a car so either walk or take the bus to get around - and I am not late in meeting people, so I guess that's why it bugs me to no end when people are late. To answer your question - if it had been me, I would have waited until the agreed upon time then went ahead and went inside. You aren't responsible for his being late - would have served him right to have to walk in alone lol.

It is true that patience is a virtue. But I am by far a very impatient man. :P I think your friend was very irresponsible and inconsiderate for targeting to arrive at 7pm when he had arranged to meet you at 6.45pm. No doubt that 15 min may be "no big deal", it is still an unfair and unnecessary waste of your time. For me, if I meet situations like yours, I would try to check WHY he was late. Depending on the reason and the urgency of the event itself, I will either wait or not wait. Chances are that I will wait (from past experience) though I would be hopping mad. :P PS.: All this is assuming that you have always been very punctual - then there would be no excuse for your friend to not assume that you would be arriving at 6.45pm sharp.

I am very patient when it comes to waiting my friends. But sometimes, i cant it's not really ok for me to wait and wait for a very long time. It's fine if has happened only once or twice but it's a different thing your friend doing it again and again. It will ruin your day waiting. But dont loose your patient friend, it might make your friendship broken. Just tell that it's not that easy to wait, just relax and be cool..lol

No, I hate waiting all the way long, I got mad if i'm waiting for someone and he/she reached late. Do you know how i'm dealing with this person whom always delays: I do the same, if we have to meet each other at 7pm and I come late depending on what I know about him/her.

Arghhh...please don't asked me that...don't you know? Punctuality is my middle name. I hate people coming up late. I can easily forgive if its only 5 minutes late. But more than that..NO!!!I once had to close up a contract with a customer. Imagine, this customer showed up 4 hours late. I will not have the patient of a saint, if this contract is not important. But 4 hours is absurd. These kind of people should learn the etiquette of punctuality. Be patient, my friend.

you have been lucky to see your friend though late by just 10 minutes. i can wait for till any time when it comes to friendship or be it relation. i once happened to go to receive my family and the train was said to late by 35 minutes intially when i reached the station. but as i waited the anouncement were being made only to inform the increased delay. and ultimately the train arrived one hour and 45 minutes late. i was patiently waiting and every minute made be better and better till i received them in hapiness.

l don't get patient when is really getting irritating or aggrevating. But , sometimes , l can just act the fool (being patient) if l know l will benefit at the tail end .

It depends upon the country and the accepted arrival time. In some South American countries it is customary to arrive quite late whereas in other countries such as Germany one should be prompt...even a little early. Know and understand the custom of the country you are in or visiting or the origin of the person you have invited.

first i will talk to my friend and made a desition and we will meet at perfect time

One of my bad personality traits is a lack of patience. I realize that is not a good thing. But the situation you describe is something different in my eyes! Your friend was demonstrating disrespect in my opinion. He should have never agreeed on meeting at 6:45 if his plan had been to not arrive until 7:00!!! By agreeing to be there at 6:45, he caused you to arrange your schedule around that timeframe. To me, you had a right to be both impatient and also upset! Knowing what an impatient person I am, I would have gone on into the dinner rather than to be late. I would have messaged my friend to just look for me inside that I was going in!

Well in my country late is a tradition. I hate late. i always set myself not to late. The longest time that i arrived in an appointment is 30 minutes.:) Well is really good you know because my friend can keep me waiting for 2 hours without any notice (i always make notice if i'm late), luckly i have something to play with.:) Well late really is tradition in my country.:)

a lot! i don't mind what other saying or doing. i'm just thinking about myself, what good for me, and what will keep me in positive mind always.

I have always had the courtesy to arrive on time when arranging to meet someone and more so when I know they will be waiting alone. I have several friends who regularly turn up an hour late and most of our friends circle are quite used to this and basically don't rely on their time-keeping. Saying that, if I have arranged to meet someone at 6.45pm it means 6.45pm and not 7pm and not 7.05 pm. If they are rude enough to turn up late I would make a point of saying "Why did you bother to agree to meet at 6.45 if that really meant 7pm to you? I've been waiting here on my own since before 6.45!" Then see what sort of answer they give. Most people have mobile phones and if they have a genuine reason for running late I'd understand but if you had a 10 minute walk for 7pm dinner start, your friend's behaviour was pretty out of order.

Usually I'm very patient, I guess it comes with most of the jobs I've had. But on a personal level, when it comes to friends, I can certainly get annoyed. Perhaps it's more personal if they treat you like you're not important, or seemingly take advantage. I can wait patiently, but how I see the situation afterward, or what trust a have in that person for later meetings, depends on why they were late.

actually i'm always the late friend. but only when it comes to casual dates/meetings with close friends. i do feel guilty sometimes, because i feel like taking advantage of them, because when it comes to official meetings/bussines meetings i am never late. i try to be always few minutes earlier. but even with friends i'm never more late than maximum 10-15 min tops

I hate thet! Most people don't think its a big deal anymore to be late. however, I had a friend who was habitually late for everything, and we had to finally just start leaving him behind. He didn't have a car, andeverything we did was out of our small town so he soon learned to beearly to meet us, or at least have the decency to call andsay he was going to be late so he didn't miss whatever it was we were going to do. Now I find my daughters are doing thesame thing. We are supposed to meet at a bus stop, and they are always at least one bus later than they say they will be. or thedaughter with thecar will make us wait, and then call her before she even sets out.

Well, as a friend, you have to be patient with her. It usually happens to me, I usually wait for them and yet afterwards of long waiting, they will just say, sorry, i cant come. I tried but I really can't. But ofcourse as by nature, i got mad, but after that, what is next, but to forgive. They are my friends and it include forgiveness everytime one of them get shortcomings.

i have patience i waited to meet one of my friend on the bus stop for around 3 hours and after that he did nt say sorry also another case happened with me i want to talk with the same guy so i called him at tht time he was busy so didnt recieve my call he did nt recieve my call for 36 hours and after tht he call me bak and say sorry but now i m usual to all these because i know he is of this kind who love to cancel my call want tht i should wait for him but sumtimes i get angry also

Yes this is very bad to bear.But since it is our friend we should tolerate him and make him understand his mistake.But it needs a lot of patience than anything.Being patient is the best to do during such times, so that our friend will understand his fault quickly..

Well, if it happened to me, depending on how close I am to that friend, I would have left after receiving that info that he just left home at 6:35pm. I'd say, ok I'm going in first, bye. Well, if he thinks in wedding dinner style then he prob doesn't think he was that late. Personally, if he can't make it on time, my plan is to say sorry dude you're on your own. definitely not going to wait for him for more than 15 minutes WITHOUT a valid reason. and you're right oversleeping is a crap reason.