Have you ever known someone whose communication skills assume you are a mind reader?

My DIL. Love her to death but man alive. OK, so I agreed to watch their two kids yesterday and today. She doesn’t have to be to work until 11:00, but I leave the house for the 15 minute drive to their house at 10:00, per her request, so I’m there early so she can get to work early.

So I dragged myself out of bed at 7:30 so I could get some house work done and catch up on fb and Fluther before I left.

At 10:00, just as I was getting ready to leave, I got a text saying she was in Wichita, 50 miles away, and her car broke down. So I called her. Turns out their son had a doctor’s appointment at 9:30 today. After the appointment she developed some car problems, so my son was on his way to pick them up.

Yesterday she didn’t bother to tell me that she had that doctor’s. appointment which meant she wouldn’t be home until 10:45, at the earliest, so I could adjust my schedule. I would have been left sitting in their drive way for at least 30 minutes. I know the only thing she was thinking about was that she could probably make that 9:30 appointment and be back here in time to get to work.

This kind of things happens all the time with her and it’s led to some hard feelings between her and other family members in the past. I’ve learned to deal more with my son when it comes to planning things.

Do you know someone like that? And why does it happen? Communication isn’t that difficult, is it?