My ex mother in law
Was a lovely woman, but with a complete inability to be on time for anything. Something would always distract her - stroking the cats, watching the telly, going and having a bath instead of getting ready for work whe she was on a late shift (she managed an off licence, so sometimes worked the 4 - 10 shift).

On a trip through to her family for dinner, I asked her "So what time are we supoposed to be there?" (this being about 1 o'clock and knowng that her sister liked to have Sunday lunch early - like at lunch time).

"Well, I've just spoken to her, and the meat is out of the oven and on the bench", came the reply.

Which meant that we should have been there half an hour ago and it's a 40 minute drive through to her sisters house.

When she contracted her third, and terminal, bout of breast cancer, she managed to hang on for a good couple of weeks longer than she should have done - no doubt finding other things to do as she lay there, virtually comatose. Probably playing with kittens in her dreams.

The biggest summing up of her procrastination / tardiness, though, came when she was actually 10 minutes late for her funeral.

Lovely woman. I miss her sometimes.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 19:35, Reply)