Not just her either, other friends too. This is more of a rant about etiquette than anything else.

I'm one of the few in my group of friends that has a car, hence when we go somewhere, I pick everybody up and take them. Some of them however are rude turd heads, and think something along the lines of "Oh, the car is here, so I should start getting ready now, even though I just had 15 minutes to get ready, and instead played video games..." -- people are rude.

Seriously, when someone is going to pick you up, you should be ready before they get there, and either be out by the street so you can hop in, or at least be running out the friggin door as they pull up. Not make your good friend, who controls when you ride the bus and when you don't, go up, knock on the door, wait 15 minutes in the burning summer heat, etc...

Anyway, the gf had a good 20 minutes warning, I show up "Dude, I'm not anywhere near ready to go" -- so instead of waiting I just went home, and now I'm gonna code; Yay me. no beach adventures for today (I'm irritable when it's mega hott out, can you tell? )

Your GF is going to kill you

Yep. I predict a riot.

This is like you followed my advice without me having to give it.

Seriously.. she called you Dude? Your girlfriend?

Now you just know you're in trouble!

dude, women do shit like that sometimes, best of luck.

There could be trouble out there.

Reminds me of ruder thing. My friends and I sometimes go to disco and we need two cars and are three drivers. Now one of those friends promises to drive but then refuses in the end. So another friend has to drive (for five times now) and me (only last time). And another action is coming soon... Now this behaviour is rude.

She'll be fine. If she gives me any trouble later on I'll get a new one.

Yeah, she calls me dude, I call her dude too. -- Seriously though, car etiquette is the point here. So many people do this to me. They're lucky I don't do this more often.

If I had the money, I'd bet that next time she asks for a ride, she'll be ready when I show up.

I figured you meant pr0n...

No, the pr0n loads just fine, but I'm not releasing any of it until after we break up...

You are the dude!

If you had the money I'd be willing to take it. Keep it up and she'll probably go get a new one.

Everybody's life doesn't revolve around you. They shouldn't have to wait at the door or on the curb for you. It would be rude to shower, dress, etc., when you get there , but I'd say it's otherwise pretty normal to need a couple minutes to get ready.

Women are also notorious for not being ready on time. I like Brad Paisley's outlook on it in Waitin' On A Woman. Women are also notorious for making themselves artificially beautiful, which takes time, as opposed to men who are pretty much as is...

Regardless of her motives for taking her time, it was childish to leave (especially if without warning or explanation).

It could just be that she didn't really want to hang out with you and knew you would leave her.

Your girlfriend must not be very hot if you'd rather leave and code than wait 20 minutes... :o

I don't completely disagree with you though... I just think that either she's worth waiting for or she isn't.

My friend and I carpool to work. He owns a car I don't. Since we live 3 blocks apart I walk to his house every day and wait outside his apartment for 5 min until he is ready to go.

Have you even had a girl friend? If she says "I'm not quite ready", expect to wait an hour. If she says shes not anywhere NEAR ready, It'll be a couple hours.

Exactly. That's how it should be.

If you want someone to give you a ride in their car, on their time, on their gas, then be ready when they show up, that's all I'm sayin. Edit: It's not just her -- and it turns out there was a cell phone misunderstanding anyway, she had apparently tried to warn me ahead of time during a previous call but couldn't get through because it was breaking up.

We were actaully just talking about brad paisley, I've only heard "ticks" from him, we think it's funny, and I heard a short cut on KMPS of "Online" a new song he's putting out that's damn funny sounding. Needless to say, I'm not taking girl advice from some random country song.

Eh, she's still debating comming over even though I told her she'd have to take the bus.

I'm attracted to her: physically, and mentally. She reads xkcd, listens to jonathan coulton, and is HWP. I kind of pride her as one of my better catches. But don't tell her I said that, it will go to her head.

Most of his songs have that kind of humor. He's awesome.

Now you can never tell her about Allegro.cc.

I start the timer when I'm waiting for people. Next time I'm coming over I do a simple subtraction for my estimated time of arrival.

You'd be surprised how often people are right on time with their lateness.

Office scene in an old Dave Berg strip:
ring ring
"Hello... ok... ok!"
"Who was that?"
"It was Roger. Exactly on time as always. Every morning he phones me at the very same minute."
"What does he want?"
"Oh, he just tells he will be late 15-25 minutes."

Don't forget to tell us how this ends.

How far away do you live from her?

I laughed.

she read the LOLCats code article already... and a couple of others I think. Edit: she thinks it's hott that I'm a programmer. (girls like that aren't extremley rare, but it's a nice find.)

We live about a 30 minute walk from each other, maybe a 10 minute drive unless traffic is completely retarted.

We ended up getting really pissed at each other in an AIM window while talking about brad paisley and her not being there when I show up and stuffs; then we realized that it was all really stupid, so we went shopping (I love shopping) in a little strip mall where all of the stores were air conditioned and we ate ice cream and looked at junk.

We're both completely retarted, so in the end it all works out.

Ahh, now that's a good find. A girl with a sense of humour, a head on her shoulders, and doesn't think geeks are weird (well, icky weird )!

So, got any pics of you two retards?

Don't have kids, or they might end up retarted too. (I had to fight my brain to spell it that way...)

Maybe getting a casette-based girlfriend was not the wisest idea.

Is it the programmer-ness she's attracted to or your ability (or potential) to land a high-paying job?

AE.

WTF? I'm not sure I understand...

Why? it's a pretty simple concept.

I love buying stuff too. The only problem is that I hate spending money.

Apparently not THAT simple. Shopping and buying stuff are not the same thing.

The most common context shopping is used for, at least where I'm from, is going to malls (stores) to look at products (i.e. clothes) and prices, often with no real intention of buying anything unless there's a sale you can't pass up. Of course, there's also the shopoholics that spend all their money and max out their credit cards shopping compulsively.

Most of the time, if somebody says they love shopping they mean they enjoy spending hours roaming around a mall looking at everything. I don't think I've ever met a man that liked shopping, let alone loved it.

I enjoy shopping also. It's ridiculous, and sexist, to think that men are incapable of enjoying such activities. I think it's a great day out, especially with your significant other! You can grab a bite to eat over lunch, have a good laugh. It's just a fun time.

She knows I have no money to speak of. She probably makes more than me.

EXACTLY!

I love buying stuff, and spending money. Its the regret over the empty wallet after that gets me down for a while. But not for long, I usually enjoy whatever it is I splurged on

I'm more of the miser type, who gets his happiness from seeing big numbers on his bank statement. Currently I get $20/mo from interest on my CDs

I'm saving up for the big $500,000 mark, where I get dividends off my balance equivalent to a full-time $10/hr. job... I have a ways to go!

Oh also I feel bad when I make someone wait more than a few seconds for me.

That seems to fit pretty nicely, though I wouldn't say the spending of money is really enjoyable to me. It's just not painful either. The enjoyment comes from what I purchase.

I second that.

edit:

I used to love going to second hand stores when I was like 11 or 12 just to look at all the junky computers, atari games, etc I couldn't even afford to buy; It'd be time to go, and I'll still want to look through more electronics bins and stuff -- one time I snuck into the back room and go to look at all the neat stuff that hadn't been priced yet!

I love shopping for crap. I spend way too much money though.

I'm the kind of person that needs to apply his money towards something lasting and tangible or the money just withers away (a large portion of it down the hatch in liquid form). Right now I'm setting aside some for a Yamaha MO6. Without fixed goals for the use of my money, I tend to spend it on useless things and services.

I find that without goals and tons of self-control I can't save a dime.

I like to buy things, but I feel bad for buying things that I really don't need (and there's nothing I really need, so I feel bad if I buy pretty much anything). So I generally buy things for other people. That way, I get the enjoyment from buying something, and I feel good because I made somebody happy.

I try to impress girls with my programming skills, then I remember I don't have any

By the way, if a girl isn't worth waiting a few minutes for, I wouldn't be with her in the first place.