Today at MEM, we were finished loading the paxs at 10 minutes prior to pushback. The ground crew was done loading bags as they were all standing in front of the aircraft joking around.

The gate agent told us to push, but we couldn't because we had not been sent the AWABs (yes, the evil AWABs).

10 minutes folks.

Don't know what the meltdown was, but it wasn't until 2 minutes past pushback that we got our numbers. The gate agents made phone calls and kept telling us "they're saying they've sent the numbers". The ACARs was working just fine.

So we were late to the gate, and late leaving.

Sounds like someone's not happy.