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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/kuebeecee on 2023-06-25 02:47:15+00:00.
My brother and his wife are late to everything. It’s usually not just a few minutes late. We are talking hours late.
Every Christmas we always gather at my parent’s house at an agreed upon time. Being punctual for this is important because my mom cooks and has to start cooking at a specific time and opening gifts can take up a lot of time so things are pretty scheduled (basically).
Every year we would start at 10am but my brother and his wife would usually show up around 12pm. Each year my mom would have the meet up time set back earlier and earlier in the hope of getting them there at our typical 10am meet up time. (Which I think is ridiculous) I always complained about their constant tardiness to my mom and she always told me to never say anything about it.
This past year I was fed up and finally made a comment about it. When my sister-in-law came into the house two hours late, she said laughingly, “sorry, we’re on Filipino time.” I couldn’t help myself and blurted out “this ain’t the Philippines.” My mom was absolutely mortified and told me how horrible that was after everyone left.