Volvo: Plenty of room for friends and tubas

I've always been bothered by people who flake on things with zero notice whatsoever. I don't mean calling five minutes after they were supposed to be somewhere. There's a special circle of hell already reserved for those people... No, I mean the people who will actually make plans, and then when it comes time to execute them, will just simply NOT, for whatever reason, and give no notice, and make no attempt at communication, as if they simply disappeared.

And then afterwards, when it is clearly too late to do anything about it, a voicemail is left as if that would help things. What is the mentality behind that? How can anyone think that NOT talking to the person you're supposed to meet up with could ever solve an altercation? If you really don't want to hang out, just say that. I'm okay with that... But to be blown off? That's really disrespectful, and that I have a problem with.

I kind of expect it sometimes, though. Usually from the people from whom it would hurt the most. I make myself expect it just in case it actually plays out that way. It's a defensive strategy. It's not because they're bad people, or any more prone to doing that... It just hurts more from them...

Because those are the people I'm supposed to be able to trust not to do that kind of thing. Theoretically, they care enough about me not to do that. So it always hurts more when they do it, because it seems that much more underhanded and disloyal...

I suppose I'm just being ridiculous, expecting this from them... None of them seem to have the same opinion about the way morals should be held as I do...