Getting There On Time
I started writing this about a year ago, and it has been in my drafts ever since. This morning I decided to finish it. People are still late regularly. Is it just in my life that people do this, or can you relate to my frustration?
Something which to me is incredibly important doesn’t seem to bother many other people. If you have an appointment you should be there on time right? RIGHT! I know I spend my time really weird - having coffee and watching morning news for the first hour after waking up, and then I have to squash everything else into the remaining 15 minutes. Make-up, hair, clothes — never mind packing lunch ![]()
BUT, I am ON time 99.9% of the time. Whether I’m just going to work, or to the dentist, or meeting with friends, I usually get there on time. I don’t know how, but I do. I hate being late. And I hate it when people are late.
Somehow I seem to be one of very few people feeling this way. People don’t mind being late. They don’t apologize for it. They just try to go on as normal and if you were to mention something about it, they’d probably be angry with you!
I heard that its etiquette for royalty to be one hour late; obviously a lot of people think of themselves are royalty then! They tend to act like people are incredible honoured to meet with them!? I don’t mind if you have a serious rough morning (like a geyser bursts?) or just oversleep once in a while, but every single day, or every single time we meet for coffee is NOT COOL!!
If you know you’re prone to be late, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Get up one hour earlier, do the important things first, and if you have time you can still carry on with whatever else it is that normally throws you off schedule.
But please, for the sake of your friends, keep the appointments you make!
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Never really thought about it until now, but I have a friend who’s late more than he’s on time. I’ve given up on motivating him to actually show up when we said, because it became clear to me that it’s just not going to happen. We all kinda just half-expect him to show up most of the time.
Wouldn’t mind if whoever’s late just phoned ahead, though.
Constant lateness is a huge pet peeve of mine. I have a friend who is always late. If she says 4 i know she means 5.
I’m like you, I cannot stand to be late. I have a family member who is always about 10 minutes behind schedule….grrrr.
How about have everything start 15 minutes later?
So, everybody is going to be early.
Oh,oh…you mentioned the bad Roy.l.tee word!

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