What really grinds your gears?

[Rares]

As an author this both disgusts me and is my greatest fear. I hesitate to be paid for anything I would do simply because if I missed a deadline I'd lose my mind more than Twilight missing that friendship report. That's probably because I see that stuff as like a contract and if you can't manage to at least keep the paying party up to date on what you're doing you're bad at what you've been paid to do.

Sorry to hear this and sorry to kind of hijack your comment.

Nono you're fine!

The thing is, I'm not some jerk who gets annoyed when I don't hear back in an hour or something. I'd like to think I'm a really reasonable person and I always try to extend some courtesy and understand. But when they do stuff like saying "It'll be ready in a week" for a couple months, or this other guy who keeps saying he'll get pictures "tomorrow" a month ago, I start to lose a bit of patience because I feel like I'm just being taken advantage of at that point.