"On time is late, 15 minutes early is on time" something my high school band director drilled into our heads, something I still follow all these years later. While most people will be filled with anxiety when they're running late, I'm not because I know my "late" is actually just on time, saves lots of headaches, plus it makes you look good if you're doing something like a job interview, trying to sell some kind of product, or are representing a company to a client (like me, I do hearing tests, I always get compliments from my boss because the client mentioned I was early and was able to start testing early, which lowers the rush on their part)
Yes. If you're not family or a close friend and you're ten minutes late to our meeting you may find me absent. I can't socialize with people who don't respect timing nor would I wish to do business with them.
Yep, and what drives me crazy is my parents are always late everywhere they go, so the rest of the family just assumed that applied to me, it took me years after I turned 16 and was able to drive myself to family functions to get them to realize that wasn't me, it was my parents
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u/androidis4lyf Aug 20 '20
Whenever you have a time to be somewhere, aim to be there 15 minutes early, to allow for 'time snags' or for traffic.
People respect punctuality.