I wasn’t kidding about my sister-in-law. Every year it is the same damn story. She promises to be here by a certain time and she is ALWAYS late. Hours late. And my wife always wants me to start smoking the turkey early because she assumes that her sister will finally be on time. However, this year I put my foot down. I’m not even going to start smoking the turkey until AFTER 1 PM. That way when my sister-in-law is hours late as usual, the turkey will have been finished not long before she shows up. And if for some strange reason she shows up “early” (meaning only an hour late), she can wait for the turkey to be finished. However, I expect her to be at least two hours late as usual.
Hahahaha...hey, doesn’t EVERYONE have someone like that in their chain of acquaintances?
Hey, we are all late sometimes, but someone who is so CHRONICALLY late that everyone knows that ruse about the early time except the person it is aimed at, but nobody ever tells the person?
It is as if they know it is fruitless to get them to change their ways, and it is kind of a private joke of punishment (and self-preservation) for everyone else.
By the way-how did your sister-in-law do today? Honestly, I don’t think people like that ever change, which is why people treat them that way.