Man, I used to think all Gary's tales of advisor terror were just a one-off of their dysfunctional relationship, but since I'm back at school part time I've come to see just how common it is.
Send completed fund application to my advisor last night reminding him that deadline is today. Half an hour after the deadline he emails me "Oh yeah can you come to the office tomorrow so we can talk about this?"
RERT RERT RERT! Danger siren goes off! "Um you were supposed to have already sent that off by half an hour ago!"
Fortunately he then got on the phone with the funding agency and cajoled them into accepting our application even though it was late. Whew! Still got a ticket to the gravy train