AITAH for leaving after my friend showed up extremely late again?

My friend and I made plans earlier this week to meet at a bar at 5:30 PM. We don’t get to hang out super often, so I was actually looking forward to it. I even showed up early around 5:15 and let her know I was already there.

She told me, “Go ahead and grab us a seat inside.”

So I did. I picked out a table, ordered a drink, and settled in to wait.

Time kept passing and I noticed she still wasn’t there. At first I assumed traffic or maybe parking issues. But by 6:15 PM, almost an hour past the time we agreed on she finally texted me saying she was still at home, which is a full 25 minutes away.

I was honestly furious. Why tell me to go inside and grab a table if you haven’t even left your house yet? It felt inconsiderate and like she expected me to just sit there indefinitely.

And this isn’t even the first time she’s done this. She has a habit of being late, but this was extreme. I felt embarrassed sitting there alone for so long and honestly just disrespected by the whole situation.

When she said she “forgot to check the time,” that made me even more irritated because it felt like such a flimsy excuse. We had solid plans how do you forget you’re supposed to be somewhere?

So I told her to forget the hangout for the night. I said I was leaving to go run my errands and that we could meet another day when she could actually commit to showing up. And then I left.

Since then she’s been acting weird and distant toward me, like I overreacted or hurt her feelings. Now I’m wondering if I should’ve been more patient or if she’s just upset because she knows she messed up.

AITAH for walking out and cancelling the hangout after she showed up massively late again?

One thought on “AITAH for leaving after my friend showed up extremely late again?”
  1. NTA. 

    She wasn’t “running late.” She straight-up hadn’t left her house an hour after the time she agreed to, while you were already sitting there with a drink like an idiot. And as you say this is part of a pattern, not a one-off.

    You didn’t blow up at her. You didn’t embarrass her. You told her you weren’t waiting around all night and you left. That’s normal adult behavior given the circumstances, on your end.

    She’s acting weird now because she knows she screwed up and doesn’t want to face it or have to acknowledge it out loud. You’re not the asshole for refusing to be her placeholder.

    Please rethink this friendship.

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