Late People

[Loosehead]

Can anyone explain why certain people are always late? I have a friend that no matter what warning you give will always be late, it drives me mad. I sometimes go around to pick him up to go somewhere and I'm always on time, he's never ready, I mean what are they thinking? I'm going out at 7pm so that's when I'll start getting ready. I suppose it drives me mad because I'm have a fear of being late so I'm always early or on time. Do "late people" have a fear of being early or are they trying to be "fashionably late"? I think it's very rude, I have other friends who are more like me and if there's a chance they'll be late they phone as do I. So come on you late people why are you late?

[OBonio]

Finally found an article about this "In Time" and "Through Time" concept.  Have a look here if you're interested.  A very interesting read.

[elgroucho]

You assume I haven't had a couple of pints already! I may have not put that last bit of my last point across as well as I could. I acknowledge that we will all have different views on where boundaries lie for things. What I meant by fundamentally right and wrong, and I may not have been wise in my choice of word there but it was the best I could come up with at that time, was a point where there is no argument about a perception and black and white are black and white, not what I or anyone else sees as that but what actually is that.

Anyway, I have to go and meet someone at 3.30pm and as it is now 3.09pm, I had better go!

Have a great weekend.

[Ahmed]

My whole life is built around leaving things till the last second with the goal being on-time. If/when I pull it off I get a massive buzz, and then I work out for next time how I could leave it later and still be on time.

 

For example: - I went on skiing holiday last month (booked it 6 months ago) and obviously had plenty of time to pack up all of my equipment and get my suitcase ready. Now to me, getting all this ready before I really had to was easy, and boring, and not much fun.

The last check it for the flight was 9am on Friday morning.

So to make getting on the flight a bit more of a challenge I decided to go out clubbing on the Thursday night (knowing full well that I had to pack + arrange transport to the airport in the morning!!), got extremely drunk, rolled in at 4am, got up at 6, packed all my gear, got a taxi to the train station, train to the airport and arrived 10mins before they closed the check-in desk.

 

What a buzz!!

[slimfandango]

so I was right, Ahmed? I thought that too, the buzz is indescribable.

[clairus99]

If I'm late it's because I either haven't allowed enough time to get ready, enough time to get there, or am just taking my time.  If I rush then I'll forget something or end up fretting so even if I know I'm late I won't rush (although I'll try to skip something, at least I won't dally).

My dad is always bloody late, you can count on it.  If I have to meet him I always tell him 30 minutes less than I need to so that he turns up on time.

I'm not late that much, to be honest, sometimes for work but not if I'm meeting people, and even then I will try and let them know now late I'll be.

Anyway, one thing that worked on me when my group of friends got fed up with it (I'd be 30-60 minutes late usually, sometimes I wouldnt turn up) they'd tell me they'd wait 15 minutes and go.  Which is fair.  It worked though!  If I was going to turn up I wouldn't be 15 minutes late!

[clairus99]

ps slimfandango - i think you just about have it there.  well explained, too!