Someone I know (and no one that reads this blog knows this person, as far as I am aware) made basically the same promise to me three different times over a two week period. They never followed through.

When I grew upset over this, and confronted the person, the response was, "But I made those promises several weeks ago!"

Is that not one of the lamest things you have ever heard? So you make a promise, and it's fine not to follow through for a few days, and then you have a week where you have then broken the promise, but after that it goes away and is no longer a broken promise? No! As time passes the fact that you have not fulfilled your word becomes even more of an indictment against your character. And the fact that the promise was made three separate times makes it even worse.

At any rate, I've washed my hands of the person. I prefer people who keep their word, or at least give a sincere apology and try to make things right when they don't. That said, I'm pretty easy-going with people, so a fulfillment of the promise or a sincere apology in the relatively near future, and all is forgiven.

You know what? Scratch that. In this situation an apology won't do, because keeping the promises would take almost negligible effort. An hour's time at the most. I think this person has integrity and honor, so maybe they will do the right thing.