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In reply to the discussion: things that people do that drive you crazy? [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I have a stepdaughter who is almost always late.
OTOH, Mr Pipi has this obsession with being early to everything. OK I can see appointments, but family dinners/get togethers are something else.
His constantly late daughter will tell us to be at their house for 4 PM, say, and he not only wants to leave 60 minutes before (it only takes 40 minutes to get to her house), but he drives like he's going to a fire. Like we're going to be late even though we're actually way early. We almost always get there when his daughter and her hubby are still cleaning and in the middle stages of cooking dinner.
This has been going on for years, and I used to be real embarrassed, but I figure she knows how her dad is, and if it really bothered her, she would tell him to show up 30 minutes later than what she would ordinarily tell a normal person.