@andimfreefallin,
Do you own phones with texting capability? Then this scenario need not have ever happened.
But since it did - without knowing how old your kids are, it's hard to make an intelligent comment. Four-year-olds probably shouldn't be waiting a long time for lunch. Teenagers will just be hungry in 20 minutes anyway.
Sounds like your spouse ran one errand, realized they were potentially going to run late, and then came back in order to partake of the awesomeness that is family lunch.
So you were right, that two errands would have taken too long, and your spouse figured that out after errand #1.
Should they have texted or called and said, "
I'm coming; my meeting with Cthulhu ran over, hold lunch!"?
Sure.
Should you have texted or called and said, "
The kids are about to roast the family dog unless they eat right now so I've just ritually slaughtered a goat and am feeding them this very moment!"?
Sure.
So, everybody was wrong, the goat is dead, the dog is safe, and Cthulhu gave good meeting, but your spouse was unable to fit in the massage with Arnold Schwarzenegger and will have to reschedule.
Plus everybody missed the awesomesauce that is family lunch and will -
quelle horreur – have to wait until tomorrow or this weekend in order to make it up.