I'm sat here waiting for female housemates to get ready
We're supposed to be going out for dinner. This was at half six.

A) What's the longest you've waited for someone to get ready?

B) Someone please entertain/insult me creatively. Thanks.

Edit: Just been informed we're now looking at leaving around 8 pm. This is great.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:12, 17 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

WHA-PISH!!!
Go without the indecisive cows.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:26, Reply)

I woulda done
but I would've been sat in the Chinese restaurant with a bloke with the same name as me, which would have been creepy/ever so slightly homoerotic. Especially as he's a nice looking bloke.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:04, Reply)

Lack of punctuality
annoys the tits off me. I like to see apostrophes and commas used properly.

Seriously though, lateness and unnecessary fannying around is incredibly annoying. If I've to be there at a certain time, I make every effort to get there on time. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been late for something, other than for reasons beyond my control.

Fannying around is not a legitimate excuse!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:31, Reply)

It's really not
Especially when the housemate that was holding us up was warned repeatedly and chivvied to get ready by 5 of us. And still turned up half an hour later than the rest of us did, as we gave up at 8 and fucked off and she turned up at half 8.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:08, Reply)

FFS, what is it that girls do?
I don't even brush my hair.
/looks like a punctual nightmare
( thealternativefact, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:33, Reply)

Apparently
"Showering, doing their hair, trying one outfit on, deciding what shoes to wear with said outfit, putting make-up on, deciding that said make-up doesn't go well with outfit, choosing new outfit, take off and reapply different make-up, decide that outfit is too slutty, change outfit again, change make-up, repeat until eventually satisfied or until boyfriend decides that he wants food more than he wants to wait around and drags you out."
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:11, Reply)

My mate Scott's wife
takes a minimum of 2 hours to get ready.

Fortunately my girlfriend is a bit quicker when it comes to getting ready to go out.

But she's terrible at getting up in the morning, and consequently runs late all day. I've tried to explain the virtues of going to bed earlier and getting up at a reasonable hour, but I've given it up as a bad job.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:39, Reply)

I'm having that as one of my requirements
"Must be able to get ready in half an hour or less".

Any women want to take me up on this? :P

I've got a friend like that too. She just won't be told about going to bed earlier and getting up earlier, not by me, not by anyone. I gave up too.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:12, Reply)

Ugh, I hate when people run late.
For work, it takes me 20 minutes to shower & dress - no makeup.
To go out, it takes me 30-35 minutes.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 29 May 2009, 19:55, Reply)

Thank you!
Sensibility!
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:13, Reply)

go
to the pub and wait for her there
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 29 May 2009, 20:08, Reply)

We did, kinda
We had a restaurant. We fucked off there and started getting drinks in.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:13, Reply)

Lateness really winds me up
We went to stay with a mate over the weekend.
We called him as we set off which gave him a two and a half hour warning. We still had to sit and wait for half an hour when we got there as he had decided to go to the supermarket and thought he would be back in time.
Then the next morning I was up, washed, made up and ready to go with in half an hour of waking up.
It took him that long to do his hair.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 29 May 2009, 20:22, Reply)

You have the patience of a saint
I would have snapped around the first afternoon and probably started physically assaulting him if I was in your shoes.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:16, Reply)

that is shit.
Have you called the restaurant if you had a booking?
The one thing that fucks me right off is when people book for time x and then show up say 30 minutes, an hour, even 2 and a half hours later! It's just rude.
takes me 20 minutes to get ready to go out - chuck on clothes, apply makeup, walk out the door. Why does it take so long for other people??????????? gargh.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 May 2009, 23:03, Reply)

We did call the restaurant
They were very understanding about it, and we decided that the majority of us would fuck off to the restaurant and wait for her there rather than give them any more hassle.

It takes me about the same time, though swap applying make-up for having a shower and a shave if I'm feeling particularly risque.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Fri 29 May 2009, 23:15, Reply)

Not that anyone's likely to read this, but I've just got in and I'm bored
I'm suddenly reminded of an old Ben Elton skit, which ends with,

"...and as the pile of clothes pulled from the wardrobe near critical mass, and the snow from the gales piles high on the rocky crags of shoes, bras, tights, knickers and tops, if you listen carefully you can hear the wail, 'But I haven't...got...a thinggg...toooo wearrrrrrrrrr..."

You probably had to be there
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Sat 30 May 2009, 5:02, Reply)