Four Hours Late

[ClinchKnot]

Oof… I’m all about being right on time. On the dot!

I can grant a little leeway for the people who weren’t raised right, but after four hours I would have been long gone. Nobody is treating me like that.

 

[anotherbob]

I was had an appointment today with a guy I was going to do some farm business with... He's four hours late and says he's still on the way.

What would you do if somebody is four hours late?

I'd be needing an increasingly viable excuse. Depends too on how much I need their business. If I could do the business with someone else I'd cancel the meeting and explain I've already wasted several hours of productive time.

 

[Brad H]

The question is, what did you do in those 4 hours while waiting?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The question is, what did you do in those 4 hours while waiting?

I hung out in the yard with my wife and complained. Haha

It was a beautiful day for it, too.

 

[Brad H]

I hung out in the yard with my wife and complained. Haha

It was a beautiful day for it, too.

Not sure if that was a positive or a negative.

Would have been an excellent time to enjoy a pipe. Would nullify out the wife and 4 hour wait…..

 

[Briarcutter]

After being about 5.5 hours late, he showed up and payed the price we had agreed on...

It's harder to be mad at people after you meet 'em... I'd fool with him again, but next time I'll know what to expect.

Those chickens are well on their way to their final resting place... Probably a taco.

They'll take a trip to the flea market first, I suspect.

Sounds like it all worked out!

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

In which case I’m wise to check the empty food crates behind ethnic restaurants my wife loves to eat at so much.

We used to process some chickens... It's hard to do that when you can pick up a whole chicken cooked and all from Walmart for 6 bucks... And to me the store chicken is better.

But these just sold to a reseller for $10 each... None of it makes any sense to me.

Apparently our recent immigrants like yard chickens better... I've been told they're worried about additives and such from our store chickens.

They're probably right... But I'm going to enjoy the cheap food readily available at the grocery store until I can't.

As far as the game chickens go. It's a misdemeanor. Most counties will write everybody $50 tickets and not even shut it down. I'm not involved... Some parts of that are too gross for me, like sucking the blood out of a chickens nose, or blowing on his vent.

 

[brian64]

After being about 5.5 hours late, he showed up and payed the price we had agreed on...

It's harder to be mad at people after you meet 'em... I'd fool with him again, but next time I'll know what to expect.

Those chickens are well on their way to their final resting place... Probably a taco.

They'll take a trip to the flea market first, I suspect.

So you're not going to tell us why he was so late?

 

[Briar Lee]

So you're not going to tell us why he was so late?

Cold hard cash pays for much forgiveness.

 

[warren]

I'm a stickler with regard to meeting time. But, I'm also a stickler for doing what's in my best monetary interests. Making moneys is one of my pet interests. I can forgive lateness but, I won't forget such in the future.

 

[Briar Lee]

I'm a stickler with regard to meeting time. But, I'm also a stickler for doing what's in my best monetary interests. Making moneys is one of my pet interests. I can forgive lateness but, I won't forget such in the future.

In 41 years of law practice I’ve never once sued a client who didn’t finish paying nor chased them or badgered them.

And I’ve earned countless referrals and repeat business by that policy.

As I’ve told every legal assistant that ever helped me, when a person makes an appointment to possibly pay me money then always, have hot coffee and soda pop and bottled water ready and always ask if they like real cream and real sugar or substitutes, and especially if they are late.

Foolish pride is extremely expensive

A wise man treats others better than they treat him.

And I didn’t do that only because I’m a nice guy.

I did that because I’m a money whore in a thousand dollar suit that never had to take it off.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

So you're not going to tell us why he was so late?

He never did say.

 

[brian64]

He never did say.

I would have had to get an answer to that if I were you. But then you may be a more patient person LOL.

 

[Briar Lee]

He never did say.

Why didn’t you say why in the hell did you keep me waiting on your good, green, cash money?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I would have had to get an answer to that if I were you. But then you may be a more patient person LOL.

I would have figured you were the more patient one between us two...

But yeah it's like a man taught me years ago in the car business... Sometimes you just gotta kiss a mudfish on the ass.

Just pucker those lips up and smooch it.

If he hadn't shown up I could have posted his number on here and said he was selling 10 dollar Esoterica bags.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I’m a money whore in a thousand dollar suit that never had to take it off.

I didn't know you were a politician.

 

[Briar Lee]

I didn't know you were a politician.

I was for three years on the local school board.

I can testify I was the only one on that board that did not make some kind of good deal to the school except my wingman, the postal letter carrier.

And I did learn something there.


Of all the ways to run a public school the present system of non partisan elected school board members is the worst, except for all other alternatives.

The public demands a winning high school boy’s football team.

And if you give them that they support the school district for things like education of their children.

 

[brian64]

I would have figured you were the more patient one between us two...

But yeah it's like a man taught me years ago in the car business... Sometimes you just gotta kiss a mudfish on the ass.

Just pucker those lips up and smooch it.

If he hadn't shown up I could have posted his number on here and said he was selling 10 dollar Esoterica bags.

Yeah, that's why I could never be a salesman.

I wouldn't have asked rudely or angrily, but I'm sure I would have at least politely asked about the 5.5 hour delay.

 

[sablebrush52]

In the business I worked in, unless the late comer was super rainmaker, there was a production related or family emergency, or was dead, being that kind of tardy would be a ticket to the unemployment office. With stage costs running at anywhere from $25,000 to $75,000 an hour there is little to no forgiveness.

 

[woodsroad]

I was had an appointment today with a guy I was going to do some farm business with... He's four hours late and says he's still on the way.

What would you do if somebody is four hours late?

If O had nothing else to do, or could keep working while waiting AND there was money to be made…I’d wait. But that would be it.