Missing in Action?

Sometimes R says I'm impatient when it comes to email replies. 'Its only been a day! Its only been 2 days', he would say. However when it comes to WEEKS that people don't bother to reply to an email and then get me into trouble, that's just taking the piss. Or even worse, I get an email from that person saying 'Ruth, why haven't you sorted this out?' In my head I'm thinking 'because i emailed you weeks ago about the matter and you wouldn't reply to my email, you stinker!'. Except that I can't say that out loud especially when the person involved is of a certain seniority and authority.

God, it does my head in when that happens.