Omg! My biggest pet peeve.
My ex wasn't the 10-15 minute late kind of person.
No, he was the 2 hours late guy!!!

I'm either 30 minutes late, or an hour early. With all the kids I have to start getting ready hours beforehand, and if it's a morning thing (before 10) we are always late.
But I always tell whoever "yeah we won't be there until 11:30" or "we might be a little late showing up". That way we aren't rude.

But if it's to pick the kids up, that's less people to get ready and more chance of being on time lol

I'm always obnoxiously early. If you say 12 I'm there at 11. I'm always worried that if I'm late something insane and drastically crazy will happen.

I'm about to give way too much info.

When I was little I always had this nightmare. I'd have it at least twice a month. I'd be at a friends house & my parents would say "be home at 5:00pm" I'd come a little after 5 and they'd be gone. A new family would already be moved in the house! They left me.

I know it sounds so silly, but when I was younger it was terrifying. So, I am always on time.

I am a very punctual person and I cannot stand people who are always late! My husband's family is the worst, my bil & his wife are usually at least an hour late to everything and for no reason. They are just jerks and have their own sense of time. We tried telling them to come at say, 2pm when everyone else will be here at 3-3:30 and it didn't work, they were still late so we stopped doing that! The last few times they were the first too arrive though. My mil comes at whatever time my sil says she will be arriving. My sil always used to be early or on time but now that she has kids, she is always hours late. Which I can kind of understand but again it's hours late! And my inlaws act like she is the first person to ever have more than 1 kid! I have 2 kids as well and yeah sometimes it takes us longer to get out of the house but we never more than 30 minutes late! My sil is hours late and we are all expected to stop and wait for her! The one time we asked my mil to wait for us (on thanksgiving when she wanted to eat at 1 and we asked her if she could make it 1:30 because our 10 month old napped from 12:30-2:30, we were going to put him down early and wake him early) she said so. So now we wait for no one and if they are more than 2 hours late, they are told not to bother coming! My inlaws don't like it because again, my sil has 2 kids and its just soooo hard for her but whatever. Nobody waits for us.

My biggest pet peeve is Christmas Eve dinner. It is my daughters birthday and the only holiday I get to host, and we go all out, we spend hundreds on food, I spend a week cleaning and all day cooking, We buy a huge $150-$250 prime rib. I tell all my inlaws to please arrive between 4:30-5pm because we will be eating by 5:30. Nobody works that day, nobody lives hours away. And yet they are always late! One year 6pm rolled around and nobody was here, we seriously thought they all decided not to come! My husband started calling them and everyone was blasé about it and said they were just leaving. Well after that, we said we wait for no one. This is what time we are eating and we will start with or without you! It is so rude and inconsiderate to show up hours late!

She finally came and got him. I feel bad for being annoyed now because the boys cried when they left ?

That's very inconsiderate! Sometimes things happen and people run late but being late hours is just plain rude.

I'd be soooo mad. I used to nanny for a family that would always do this.

My husbands whole side of his family are like that ? his mom was SIX hours late to Easter. And we told her it started 2 hours earlier than it did. She said she "lost track of time" an ha to get her Jamba Juice before coming over. But this happens basically everytime we have a get together. It's incredibly annoying.

She didn't even answer her phone ? and because I'm a giant p****

"Hi M! This is Alyssa, just wondering if you were coming to pick up D soon! We have some errands to run, so if you could come pick him up within the hour that would be great"

I'm such a wussy ?????

I'm always late, but like 5-10min late and it's something I'm really working on. I can't imagine being that late to pick my kid up.

You are too sweet!

I would of totally been the B and asked her if something comes up to just contact me so I don't have to worry if something happened ?

As much as I would love to say "yes I'm going to say something". I probably won't ?. I'm a p**** sometimes.

I'm calling her at 2 if she hasn't show up by then. He's still here.

Have you gotten ahold of the mom? That is so inconsierate she isn't there yet, what if you had things to do? I would be livid

That's so late. Are you going to say anything when she comes?
You would think that she would be embarrassed to be that late.

Ahh still stinks. I really feel for the kids that have to go back and forth like that. It has to be hard on them to re-adjust every time. At least your son is getting some extra time ? but seriously I would be getting annoyed..come get your child lady!

Oops im that one person thats always running late. They tell me i run on mexican time?

Boo

Still here ?

I hate 50/50 custody. I think it's detrimental to be he child to not have a place that is anchored as "home".

I really dislike being late too, although I do tend to be more "right on time" since having P. For the sake of my sanity that just has to be okay. Lol

I have no idea how it all came together. I don't want to pry, I know she is from MI too so something brought her here I assume. It's only a 4 hour drive between here and there. I think they might flip flop holidays as well? So whoever has the kid for the year gets Christmas/spring break and then they switch off. I dunno, just seems like a really crappy arrangement for the kid and my kiddo really misses his friend when he's gone ?

Super annoying.

At my work, my boss gave us all a 5 minute allowance and that was sweet of her. I rarely used it. Maybe once or twice. And that was only by a minute. But she took it away since a coworker bragged that she's never here by her start time. When our boss told her it was revoked, she got soooo mad and said well I guess im losing my job and a bunch of childish things.. like seriously, is it that hard to be on time?!

Every other year?! Oh my god I would die if I had to give my child up for a year at a time. That really stinks for him and your son only getting to see his friend every other year. Why wouldn't one parent suck it up and move closer so he doesn't have to do that?

Annoying!!!
I have grandparents that we had to start lying to. We would tell them that things were planned for 2-3 hours earlier than they were and they would still be late!

I hate when people show up to my house early almost as much. My mil usually shows up to birthdays and other get togethers an hour early. I'm like 'No! This is now *my* get ready time after getting the house and everyone else ready!' Haha

Unfortunately I don't have enough room in my car for 5 kids ??

I'd offer next time, "instead of you picking him up, I think I will drop him off at your house."

That is frustrating though. I hate when we are late anywhere. My husband drives me crazy because when we are about to leave, he has to use the bathroom. And he takes FOREVER in the bathroom.

Sometimes I just up and leave him.

"Meet you there."

It has to really suck. Plus the difference in learning. Our school isn't common core. I'm sure his other school probably is. It's got to be academically not the best choice.

Who the heck is over an hour late picking up their kid? And 2 1/2 hours late??? What, does she just forget he's at your house? Like, hmmm I really think there was something I was supposed to pick up today. Milk, bread....oh yeah I know! My kid!!! Da frick is that crap!!!!

I hate when people are late too! I am always on time or early and I lug around 2 toddlers..everywhere I go, so it's really irritating!!! A couple of my family members are always late so if something starts at 3pm I tell them it starts at 1pm.

We're summer break parents to my ss and it sucks ass.
But you're right, there isn't really a better way when they're in school.

Twiggy..I don't know how common it is, but there was a kid I went to school with who was on that schedule too. I mean I guess when they are young...fine. But school age? That's a pretty crappy arrangement. I think one parent needs to suck it up and just take summer breaks and let the other do the school year.

I tried to wait on lunch so I wouldn't have to feed him another meal. But now it's almost 1 so I gave in and fed them all. The kiddo said "oh my mom probably just went to eat lunch after work before she came and got me" ???

I am a very punctual person, and it drives me nuts if people are not early or at least on time. My husband is not a punctual person at all, and instead of giving him the correct time, I always tell him 15 minutes earlier than expected so he is on time! ????

Unfortunately I run a daycare and people always seem to come late, which drives me a little damn crazy to be honest lol.

Hopefully she isn't too late picking her kiddo up, if I hadn't seen my son in a year I would be so antsy I would probably be there days earlier lol

That's one of my biggest pet peeves. I can't stand it.

When people are late u assume they thing their time is more important than mine. That's irritating.