Pet peeve number 2

People who say they are going to call at a specific time and do not call at that specific time. Now yes, this is me being me (autistic, anal, bitchy, what have you) since for most people a casual, let's do the call at 8 means 8-ish. But if someone says 8 to me, it means 8, period. I am fully prepared at 8. No earlier, no later. And I have trouble handling the time that is being wasted while I am sitting, waiting for the call at 8, and nothing is happening. And these other people, totally calmly, eventually get around to getting on the line, on their own sweet time. And in the interim, I am completely stressed because now I have no idea when the call is going to happen and it could happen at any moment and I HATE hearing the phone ring unexpectedly because it reminds me of the alarm going off in the morning, which is the worst feeling in the world (short of being forcibly passed out via nitroglycerin, see earlier post and as a side-bar, I was wondering today if death feels like that and if so, I think I want to research a more pleasant means of departure because even waking up with a tube fully enveloping my throat - so you feel like you're choking to death - while I was supposed to be unconscious was a far superior feeling). Which brings up another point which is that I actually hate it when the phone rings. Or my blackberry goes off. Or there is any unexpected noise whatsoever. Oh and the worst, the WORST (because I live almost adjacent to a church) are church bells. Okay, play your bells to remind people to go to mass, alright. But playing entire songs for 15 minutes or a half hour? If I had the strength to get out of bed on a Sunday morning I would rush into their house of worship in a rage and do something inappropriate, I don't know, steal holy water or something. But you're allowed to take it, so that wouldn't really cut it. What I should really do is put a silencer on the bells like we did on the fire alarm freshman year of college (as an explanation, the building was too moist which caused the fire alarm to go off an average of 3-8 times daily, at times like 4 am, so we were really forced to eventually take action - not that the fire dept agreed with our decision but we talked them down from some massive fine after explaining the drama of the situation. The fire department does NOT like it when you make it so the alarm cannot actually go off. FYI.).