On Keeping Your Word
Most people are pretty good at keeping promises to others.
When I make an appointment with a busy person, even just for something as simple as a call, they almost never cancel on me. If they do have to, they almost always apologize and work to reschedule.
This is true even if I don’t know the person. Even if the call was just a friendly chat, not something incredibly important.
There are exceptions, of course. But the fact that they feel so rude is evidence itself that broken promises to other people are quite rare. If they happened often…