Blonde's Eye View: Flaky friends

I shouldn't hold it against her, it's an epidemic. When did everyone become so flaky?

People arrive hours late, and rearrange and quash meetings at a drop of a hat, or a leaf, or their Tube ticket, or pretty much whenever they feel like it.

One of my friends accepts every invitation, double and triple booking himself up.

Then, dependent on his mood each morning, decides which, if any, event he will attend.

It's the ultimate in commitment phobic lifestyle. And it's rude.

Last-minute cancellations are particularly annoying for us girls. Planning for a night out after work starts the day before (at least).

There's the putting together of the ideal office to bar outfit, and the lugging in of all the extra bits and baubles you'll need; make up, shoes, clutch bag, camera to take pictures of hot guys.

You spend all day looking forward to that first martini in Parlour, but come 5.30pm a sad little email canning the whole night pops into your inbox.

When did it become acceptable to be so lame? I blame technology.

All the faceless communication forms - email, texting, Facebook - make it easy to rain off.

In the past you'd only cancel a meeting last minute if you had a really good reason; your grandmother had just died, or you'd been struck down with tuberculosis.

Now people drop out because they're feeling "a bit tired".

That's easy to type.

It's harder to call and say out loud, without it sounding like a pathetic excuse. Which it is.

It's enough to drive you to distraction. I'm so annoyed I don't think I can be bothered to go out this evening. Let me just send an email...