I don't know about this, depending on the excuse (I made a comment on travel reliability), the time frame, and the type of event, it isn't on the top of my list

I don't know about this, depending on the excuse (I made a comment on travel reliability), the time frame, and the type of event, it isn't on the top of my list. Perhaps I'm so forgiving because my actual problem is that people are so incredibly flaky and unreliable at this point that I often don't get to the part where they're "running late" - they'll cancel an hour before via text message or something like that, and I'll be lucky if I even get it. I think there was another post on here about how technology enables people to do this, back in the day when you made plans you couldn't necessarily get in touch with someone last minute. It's not just in the social realm too, which I find baffling - I made a last minute appointment online with a massage therapist I'd been working with for a while due to back pain flaring up, and she called literally an hour before the appointment to say that since she didn't have anyone else scheduled for that day, she basically didn't want to come in. I've had doctors pull similar (yet not as extreme) stuff on me.