When I used to get frustrated, my friend Chip would explain to me, "You should have expected this; after all, they have no grasp of the time-space continuum."
I need to stop counting on my friends showing up at the times they say they will. Rather I need to start telling them to show up 30-60 minutes before I want them too.I started doing that with my brother and his wife, and it worked wonders.
+1, but what do you do if your spouse/SO makes you late?
I'm a student at the Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth right now, so I'm literally stuck at a desk in a classroom (Socratic style, so not all bad) all day, five days a week. Whenever the lesson becomes painfully reductio ad absurdum I try to help it along with snarky comments...
Dr. History: "So, what technological innovations might count toward the next revolution in military affairs?"
Me: "Something that renders the Soldier as obsolete, unnecessary to the conduct of war..."
Dr. History: "Like UAVs--"
Me: "No, like robotic terminators."
or
Dr. Strategic Leadership: "For this scenario, what additional resources might the Joint Task Force Commander request from European Command?"
Me: "Man-portable tactical nukes, or plasma rifles with an extra day's charges."
Strangely, they always laugh, and I haven't been fired...yet...
Dr. History even reposted me one day with a "Or park a Death Star in low orbit."
Hey, these are 15-person classes, and we're all 35 years old and more; and we're stuck here for a year of academic tedium, government-paced.
Your file is getting thicker......
Talking to yourself is not dangerous, answering yourself is.
But if I'm not online, where else do I get intelligent conversation? ;-)