Late people......

[R1Geezer]

Elizabeth Taylor apparently ordered that her funeral should start at least 15 minutes after the published time in order to fulfill her wish to be late for her own funeral On that note she was obviously what I call a "late person" ie late for everything. As the complete opposite myself I've often wondered why some people are always late and how disorganised their lives must be. So can the punctually challenged have a go at enlightening me, thanks!

[piggynose]

surely you cant be serious sqad, spain is the land of bad time keeping, its in the blood, admitedly i hated it at first about 4 years ago, but its expected now, as i am a minority

[sherrardk]

My husband would make us late for everything, he is so disorganised. I am never late (even though I always have at least two little people with me), not that i have anywhere that important to be.

[albaqwerty]

Being late for a pre-arranged apointment is just plain rude.

If Liz Taylor deemed that she should be late for her own funeral, then you go with her wishes.

I drive my OH nuts by being early, but would sit outside if it was a dinner party etc

[milly143]

I have a couple of siblings who are like that. Quite a long time ago we worked out if we needed them to be somewhere, we had to tell them the time was an hour earlier then it really was. Sometimes they make it on time.

I'm the complete opposite. I hate being late for anything. It takes about 5 minutes to drive to the doctors surgery but if I have an appointment I end up leaving about 20 minutes early. I always think things like, what if it takes me ages to get over the cross roads, what if that van is parked on the road and I have to wait 10 minutes to give way to everyone, what if there are no parking spaces. Then I end up sitting in the surgery waiting room for an hour as the doctor is running late.

[askyourgran]

I hate being late for anything, and my hubby is even more punctual than me. He will be ready to go somewhere and sit with his coat on to get there earlier.

[pretty_snowdrop]

My hubby is late for everything and its drives me insane. His sister is far worse, if she says she will see you at 7pm you can expect her nearer 8.She blames her kids !

[boxtops]

I can't bear being late. What really winds me up is people who arrive late for meetings, when they've already started, then spends the next five minutes telling everyone why they were late and it really wasn't their fault, anything but.

[saxy_jag]

I was always taught that ten minutes early for any appointment is polite and I tend to stick to that because I'm quite 'manners conscious' a lot of the time (unless I want to offend someone on purpose, that is).

I don't think people's being late is so much a matter of being disorganised as just laid back or of being unconcerned with people's feelings.