Well let's not make a big deal out of it, what you say is just the thing that is difficult for me to handle. Why make the meeting at 10 and NOW why not 9 and take your time? (or yesterday, or via matrix - if we are that much in a hurry why waste so much time.) Gunderson said these things but well - Sorry for not seeming so concerned about the timing - he does not behave like someone in that much of a hurry or we would not be needlessly hopping between meetup locations.
Second the story - well you have it your way or the highway - and well this is fine if this is the kind of game you want to run. Like I said there were many other possible scenarios to handle it, I like it when story goes from all places, and we can adopt to things. I am not saying that your way is wrong or anything - I am just saying that I do not seem to enjoy this kind of rigidity very much.
It was the same thing with offering Tedd to go partying, (so that something could happen)... but Ted does not party, does not drink - perhaps a single beer. He is a geek with very conservative views, definitely won't feel good in a striptease place. There were plenty of other ways to keep him occupied: Someone could ask for a favor, he could have witnessed something - someone getting shot in the hood? Stealing from one of his part suppliers? Perhaps the car could be even stolen - before he finishes with it. And this exclude the most straight forward - someone calling him to do a job - (he is a shadowrunner). So I don't know, I saw countless opportunities to keep him engaged even if he would be totally obsessed with the car.
I would have wrote that some of these things happened but I got the feeling that we do not move the story - just our chars and well... Like I see now plenty of ways to include Tedd in the story- I saw plenty of ways to keep him occupied. I guess it boils down to play style. For the sake of being argumentative, if the two had a flat tire - I doubt they would have been replaced so quickly and they would have been delayed just as much.
It was purely a GM decision to decide to drop the player over this - and sends a message that we have to do exactly what you want us to - what leaves too little freedom for my taste. I mean - Gunderson could have called to yell at him to get to the place RIGHT NOW, for crying out loud. He would have turned away... When we WANT to find a solution we can find countless of them.
