Spinoff to not having time--LATENESS

Okay so are you someone who is punctual or are you someone who is always, habitually 5, 10 ,15 minutes late?

And why?

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I always try really, really hard to be on time but when you have a kid something ALWAYS comes up and I'm sometimes 5-10 minutes late. Not often though. And I always try and prepare myself, to have everything ready to go wayyyy ahead of time, and there's always that one thing that I forgot to do/bring!

Then of course when we are going out I change my outfit 80 times and that makes us late

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I try so hard to be a few minutes early or right on time.

Being late (to anything) gives me such anxiety.

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I can't remember the last time I was late to anything. I pride myself on it, and being reliable. However, I know plenty of people who are constantly late with one excuse or another, or who don't care to explain at all.

It's a peeve of mine.

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I'm always running late... I try my best but something ALWAYS comes up.

this is for personal things... for anything school/work related I'm either early or on time.

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I am always, always early. I have terrible anxiety about being late, so even if I am right on time, I was probably having a heart attack about being late a few minutes prior to my arrival.


ETA: I was once so early to a Mommy GTG that i took DD for a 1/2 hour walk around my friend's neighborhood to kill time. I always find something to do with my extra time--get coffee, a newspaper, sit in a cafe...whatever. And I NEVER rush. I just leave plenty of time to get where I am going. If I am running late, it has to do with circumstances out of my control like the traffic.

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I'm always on time or a few minutes early.

I DESPISE lateness -- its a GIANT pet peeve of mine, so I make sure that I am not late when it comes to meeting up with others.

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I'm always early. Now if it is something DH and I have to do together, I'm late because of him. I've already decided to tell him Christmas eve starts an hour earlier than it really does.

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I am either right on time or 3 mins late.

Rarely early.

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I am usually early..which annoys me bc I am always the first person and waiting for people I dread being late..

I can totally see if you have a baby or young children why you would run a cple minutes late, but I find it rude when people are constantly late for no apparent reason!

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I am always on time if not early...i HATE being late, it actually sends me into a panic

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Late. It's a horrible flaw that I really do need to correct. It does show a lack of respect to the person waiting.

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Posted by pinkandblue

I am always on time if not early...i HATE being late, it actually sends me into a panic

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I hate being late. I get to work early every day, even if there is traffic. I leave plenty of extra time. I am typically early to things, but I try not to do that for parties, b/c then I end up standing around waiting for people. I really, really like to be on time though.

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I am very punctual. My whole family is. I think it is so rude to keep people waiting. It's a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

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Always punctual. It relates to what we said about people with "no time." At the end of the day, you are what you do. If I am late I am screaming to someone else that I am more important than they are. If I claim to have no time, but then I find it for stupid things, I am chossing to prioritize the stupid things over the things I claim I wish I had the time to do. It's all about accountability.

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i am always on time if not early but if i do run late i call way before i was supposed to be somewhere and update.

My pet peeve is at work, now i understand having kids can be challenging at times getting them up and ready and to daycare (which is right at work) but to be 45 minutes late 3-4 x's a week DRIVES ME INSANE! And they get away with it all the time. Grrr...

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It very much depends. Interviews, meetings, appointments, dinners at someone's house, or meeting a small group of people somewhere: early

For parties where I know there are a lot of people: I like to be fashionably late, i.e. 30 mins late

For happy hours, and other lax things: on time to a few minutes late.

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i am usually early, or right on time

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I'm early for nearly everything, but sometimes even I can't help it and I end up being there as a mtg begins or a few min late.

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I used to always be on time, or, even early...Now, with 2 kids, no matter how hard I try, Im late.

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its my dh's fault- he's always late- I was always ontime till I met him and he's sucked me into his evil ways

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