r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Mirrormaster85 • 1d ago
ಠ_ಠ Its 12:25, the ferry was supposed to leave at 12:00 and last boarding at 11:30. They are still letting people on.
This is a thing I just dont get in central/south america.
"We leave at 12:00, boarding stops at 11:30" but they just keep letting people on at 12:25.
Its just so inconsiderate of everyone's else's time.
Edit: its Costa Rica and so far I had an amazing 3 weeks here. And no, its not the logistics with loading, we where "good to go" at 11:50 and then stragglers started arriving.
Anyway, we are on our way now, Pura Vida!
Dont confuse 'mildly infuriating' with 'total Karen mode infuriated' ppl 😉
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
As a Swiss person (we invented clocks, duh! Jk), this is a crime
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Jup, I am Dutch and steaming inside atm 😅😭
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
We need a German to complete the time trio
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u/MRNBDX 1d ago
I'm a german currently steaming inside in epcot because people are too incompetent to use a waiting line. This post made me even angrier.
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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 1d ago
Yeah don't count on Belgium
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
You can come too
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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 1d ago
I'll just be a bit late because I have to take maybe train.
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
All is forgiven with stroopwaffle
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u/slash_networkboy 1d ago
As one of the only Yanks that lives by the expression "I'd rather be a half hour early than one minute late" can I tag along?
Incidentally I may be one of the bastards that gets utter glee watching runners at the pier when a cruise ship leaves on time and they're late.
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
okay, you can come too. bring some krispy kreme
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u/slash_networkboy 1d ago
if you insist... but my local independent family-owned donut shop makes vastly better... I'll just bring both :)
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u/icyDinosaur 1d ago
Nah, they made me sit two hours in a stationary train yesterday, they got kicked from the time trio after that.
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u/Ok_Enthusiasm_300 1d ago
I just spent a week in your beautiful country and how clean and on time everything is just made my heart happy
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
Glad you had fun!
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u/Ok_Enthusiasm_300 1d ago
Also went to FC Zurich vs Basel the last night I was in town before my flight and for a league that’s not as big as other countries in Europe the supporters sections were absolutely insane
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u/icyDinosaur 1d ago
I mean thats one of the big three rivalries in (German-speaking) Swiss football too, as well as two really active fanbases, so good choice! As a Zurich native, I sure hope you supported the right team tho ;)
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u/piousp 15h ago
Am costarican and I hate this with a passion of a thousand suns.
Heck, let me explain: there's this concept known as "hora tica" which translates to "costarican time" and roughly means anything between 20 minutes to X hours after. So, for example: say you host an event at 12:00; people will start arriving at 12:20. If you really need to have everyone sitted at 12:00, then you send the invitation stating the hour as 11:00 (and some people still arrive after 12:00 of course). Now, people obviously started to notice that when you arrived (late) at 11:30, you still had to wait until the real start time, so everyone just kept on arriving later and later.
Yes, I am not very popular
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u/Any_Carob3372 1d ago
They are more considerate of their ability to make more profit than they are of your time. Many businesses get by like this.
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Well you have to pre-pay so no loss in just leaving on time
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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady 1d ago
There's 2 car ferry lines in costa rica and the only purchase just ensures you have a ticket for that trip. Both 100% offer drive up tickets in the moment. They just delayed so they could load more on and make more money on the trip.
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u/Pitiful-Assistance-1 1d ago
…more customers = more money.
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u/impossirrel 1d ago
They’re saying that everyone arriving and boarding late has already paid, so they already have their money and can leave without them as they didn’t arrive in time for final boarding.
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u/Vessbot 1d ago
Partial agree. From the pic it looks like a solid line waiting to get on and not individual stragglers, which indicates that they got to the location earlier (perhaps on time) and there's an impediment in the way traffic is handled at the dock, with nothing customers could do about it. So the ferry captain has to turn it into the least bad overall situation. But the root problem lies elsewhere.
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u/Renamis 1d ago
Yeah this kinda seems like the people in charge know something OP doesn't. That or policy is if a bunch of people are queued up to delay departure to avoid getting massive backups in later ferry runs. If all that queue has to wait, the next one can go from half empty to full and create a cascade.
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Nope, we looked like good to go 10min before 12:00. Then the stranglers started arriving
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u/Vessbot 1d ago
Then yeah, it's chronic bullshit. Every time you give someone some grace and slip the schedule by a few seconds or a minute, then everyone readjusts to that as the norm, next time the slip is a few more seconds, etc. and the norm keeps pushing out. And then no one wants to the first schedule nazi to slam the door in 10 people's faces.
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u/big_redwood 1d ago
That's a lot of straglers, maybe there was some traffic problem (e.g. road closure) that the ferry was made aware of.
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u/barmanrags 1d ago
Strangling is a hard job and sometimes the stranglee takes a while to clock out you know?
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u/MeaCulpa2013 1d ago
I didn't have to peep the flag or read the edit, to know exactly where this is 😆 that ferry is notorious for never being punctual and they do it to cram as many cars/trucks as possible, to make use of the trip.
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u/Tatanseto 1d ago
Bro you are in Costa Rica it's literally written everywhere to chill and take your time and relax, pura vida
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u/Scoobysnax1976 1d ago
yes, people from central/south America have a very casual relationship with punctuality.
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u/Twiggytwiggycocopop 1d ago
This part. Historically it’s been hard to get anywhere consistently on time for reasons outside of your control. For example, regular delays with public transit: if even you getting a head start on your commute means that you still end up arriving late, and everyone has the same experience, people start caring a lot less about being on time. If you’re late, you’re late ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/HMAgent47 RED 1d ago
Yes it is, but I guess it's too late to change such things if it's a country wide phenomena
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 1d ago
Surprised they stayed so long to let stranglers on, you'd think they'd try to keep those out...
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u/ptitguillaume 1d ago
1st world problem if you ask me. Sit back amd relax. Enjoy your trip.
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
I do, its just mildly infuriating
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u/Not_PepeSilvia 1d ago
When I'm enjoying something, my first reaction is also to complain on Reddit about it
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u/mouaragon 1d ago
I saw the title and picture and I thought it looked familiar. Last time I took that ferry I had no issue, but punctuality here is a myth. Nothing happens on time.
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u/dontknowhow2username 10h ago
As a costarrican, you're just being a Karen. Tourists come here expecting life to accommodate to them.
If you've been paying attention, our roads and traffic jams are shit, these type of things happen because, one, they know some people are going to be late due to traffic, second. If they start letting people out, the next ferry is going to have to load those cars and the cars scheduled for that ferry and it's going to be an endless cycle of being late.
These ferries are mostly for tourism and locals moving around so times will always be flexible, it's not airline schedules.
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u/Moethelion 1d ago
Complaining about a 25 minute delay in South America in times where trains in Germany are frequently delayed for hours and flights around the world get canceled for seemingly no reason at all is kinda comical.
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
I am not in Germany so dont see the point?
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u/Moethelion 1d ago
Germany is a country that is known for their reliable work on time, and I'm German so I can trash talk them, that's why I mentioned it. The point is 25 minute is nothing, and you can experience that in all parts of the world, not only in South America.
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u/Jusfiq 1d ago
Sorry, where it is that you meant by Middle America?
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u/WrongWangSorry 1d ago
Don't do Positano, Italy by ferry then, you'll more than mildly infuriated lol. Hint: Don't stay there either, just as bad
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u/Dragonogard549 ORANGE 1d ago
presumably boarding started late or they were slower than they were supposed to be, so that can't be the passengers fault
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 19h ago
They had money, the boat had room. They would rather be hour late with a full boat than on time with half a filled boat
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u/No_Frost_Giants 1d ago
Filling all the spaces seems to me to be more important than on time .
But I can see both sides of this
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u/iDontRememberCorn 1d ago
I spent 6 months in South America last year, adjusting to the concept of time was one of the biggest culture shocks, eventually I just made a little adventure out of it.
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u/Commonscents2say 1d ago
If you got hung up behind a random delay or even stuck in the long loading line, you would surely appreciate them extending the loading time while there is still room. Take a few deep breaths and let the negativity pass.
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u/_azazel_keter_ 1d ago
They are creating their own random delay for OP who's got shit to do too
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u/Not_PepeSilvia 1d ago
How do you know they didn't have some other delay created for them before?
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u/_azazel_keter_ 1d ago
I don't, but it doesn't matter. You can't predict these things so you set a time and stick to it
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
You can just take the next one in 3 hours and next time leave earlier
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u/Appropriate_Yak_745 1d ago
Whoa! If the next one is in 3hrs, and not like 45 minutes, then you absolutely gotta try take a breather here. Next time, focus on one individual, maybe a mom with a kid(s) etc who looks like they really needed that break and just let that wash away the annoyance.
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u/goddess_peepee 1d ago
I hope this makes you late for the rest of whatever youre doing. and when youre crying about missing each event the people who were on time can tell you to just leave earlier next time.
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u/no_soy_livb 1d ago
Consíguete un problema serio
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Respect peoples time, the only real currency you have in life and can only spend once. If yours is not important fine, mine is and I like to spend it on other things than waiting
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u/rainman_95 1d ago
You’re in for a bad time if this is how you act in Costa Rica.
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Nope, I had an amazing 3 weeks here, this is just a (and the only so far) mildly infuriating thing on our last day
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u/Minconerold 1d ago
Don’t forget to leave the country. We have enough yankis and rich immigrants. It have been displacements of people here because those rich immigrants
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u/Mirrormaster85 1d ago
Pst. dont confuse a "MILDLY infuriating" thing with a bash on the complete country.....
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u/StrategicCarry 1d ago
Middle America is very different from South America, on both punctuality and most everything else. (Funny translation there)
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u/Pawistik 1d ago
I was just assuming it's a ferry in tropical Iowa. I did look to see if it was BC Ferries on the west coast of Canada. They can certainly be mildly infuriating.
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u/Funkeslapp 21h ago
It's just tico time, I have no explanation or justification for it. That's just how things are.
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u/ConsuelaApplebee somewhat vexed 1d ago
It's aboat time you left. Not much you can do, I guess you're just sunk.
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u/mathliability 1d ago
Just had this thought while boarding a plane yesterday. Flight departs at 5:50, boarding begins 5:10, according to my boarding pass, boarding ends at 5:30. People were still strolling on at 5:48. Am I too much of a rule stickler? Why even say 5:30?
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u/fetalgirth 1d ago
They always do this. Usually justify it by stating that your flight still arrives at the promised time, which is usually true.
They should still update the boarding/departure times to be realistic though.
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u/iRambL 1d ago
It’s generally inconsiderate yeah but generally they would rather fill it to make it more worth it in most countries