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Originally Posted by lurkette
A couple of coping methods:
1. Stop accommodating them. If they're late for the movie, dinner, whatever, start without them. Oh well!
2. Tell them an earlier time - my friend Sharon is always at least 20 minutes late, so we just tell her to be there 1/2 hour earlier than we plan to be there.
3. Quit being polite about it. Chances are they apogize for being late and you say "oh that's all right" or whatever nice thing we say to keep the peace. Tell them flat out, this makes me really mad!
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This is a bit confrontational and would actually make an issue of the problem, yes stop being polite, but somewhere between "oh it's allright" and telling them flat out "it makes me mad" may be best to begin with in my opinion - they are friends after all