Waiting

I really dislike waiting. Not all kinds of waiting - just the waits that have no end in sight, and come out of the blue. Like when you think something's going to happen and then it just randomly doesn't with no explanation or clue as to if it's simply delayed or cancelled. In fact nothing is surer to piss me off than to stand me up. It's basically the only time when I'm almost incapable of sticking to my general principle of calming down before "saying anything". Sometimes people have good reasons for standing you up; like if they died on their way to meeting you. Other times people have fairly good reasons; like if they're mobile phone went flat and they were stranded in their broken down car 10km from home. But most of the time people seem to have shit reasons, or even better, no reason at all! Shit reasons are the ones that blame other people. I just do not understand why so many people let other people, people who seem to have little respect and certainly no idea of what is reasonable, dictate the terms of their existence. Why are we scared of these people? But no reason at all reasons are the worst of all; "Sorry I'm late...". That's it? Being late is one of the rudest things I can think of because it imposes your own lack of time management skills on others. I don't care what you are doing with your life, just let it not affect my life too thanks. People pleasers are the worst at this, they are incapable of just saying "Actually, I don't have time to do that." So instead they piss you off by saying they can and then don't. I'd rather have the first person around, at least then I wouldn't spend longer than I care to recall as I currently do; waiting.