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Nov 25, 2021
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seco03
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Question for those who are chronically late to things.
Do you plan on being in time but just can't quite do it? Is your time just more important than others? I'm trying to understand how a person can regularly be 30+ minutes late to events.
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Question for those who are chronically late to things.
seco03
11/25/21 1:27pm
Selfishness, arrogance, poor time management. Don't care about being rude.
BYUtka
11/25/21 1:28pm
All these plus procrastination and over-committing themselves to other things. People with this mindset can rationalize
CLCougar
11/25/21 1:32pm
It’s generally trying to do too much in too little time. And poor planning.
Future_Tacos
11/25/21 1:37pm
Or exquisite planning to avoid helping with any of the work..just show up like a rock star and expect to get fawned over
CLCougar
11/25/21 2:09pm
I don’t it’s that simple, and I don’t think it’s just because people are turds.
seacougar
11/25/21 4:08pm
I don't think they believe that they are that late that often.
seco03
11/25/21 1:29pm
Bad time management in all cases I know of.
Memmo
11/25/21 1:30pm
It’s part of my family’s culture unfortunately. But at least it’s not Brazil,
BlooCoog
11/25/21 1:32pm
That was part of a training I just did at work.
Y05
11/25/21 1:47pm
Hold on. Let me get my wife. (We're late right now.)
DomCasual
11/25/21 1:35pm
Ever since having kids I am late to anything that requires bringing kids
JoeExotic
11/25/21 1:37pm
That is the same excuse my sister uses, but I don't understand how she can get
Pickett
11/25/21 1:47pm
Because we see school as critical and a family event as non-critical.
JoeExotic
11/25/21 1:53pm
Having kids isn’t an excuse. I have a family member with seven kids…
Zastava
11/25/21 2:09pm
My brother in law uses this excuse. But he was late to everything before having kids, now he just has someone to blame.
TCuz
11/25/21 3:19pm
If you’re not 3 minutes early you’re 5 minutes late
Beggar
11/25/21 1:41pm
In my book, 5 minutes late to a social event is on time.
Joe Banks
11/25/21 1:45pm
Nothing wrong with being late to things if you give people a heads up first
JoeExotic
11/25/21 2:00pm
There is stuff wrong with it.
byujacob
11/25/21 3:39pm
I disagree
JoeExotic
11/25/21 3:58pm
I know. But you are still wrong.
byujacob
11/25/21 5:18pm
Of course he doesn’t think so. Or he’d be on time
Memmo
11/25/21 4:11pm
As someone with really bad ADHD, I was late for almost everything for a long
crack
11/25/21 2:01pm
It comes down to being a jerk (I would use stronger language if this wasn’t CB).
Zastava
11/25/21 2:03pm
Tell them you’re starting 1/2 hour earlier than you really are.
lightmann
11/25/21 2:06pm
People enable the late-comers. Set a time. Start on time. If they are late - that's their problem. Don't enable them
Zenoch
11/25/21 2:13pm
Lots of anger issues in this thread. Maybe people come late to your events
Abe Froman
11/25/21 2:40pm
Methinks thou protesteth too much. Otherwise known as..
CLCougar
11/25/21 2:45pm
Nah, I’m almost never late, and we host Thanksgiving at our place.
Abe Froman
11/25/21 3:31pm
Some truth to this. I am far more likely to get my family on time
JoeExotic
11/25/21 4:03pm
I notice it’s an anxiety thing. I think some people slow down under pressure
Roykeane
11/25/21 3:08pm
It could be cultural...some cultures run on event time instead of clock time
runnincoug
11/25/21 3:54pm
I’ve been told more than once that expecting punctuality is “racist”
seacougar
11/25/21 4:03pm
I wouldn't go that far but it IS cultural and our expectation of clock time
runnincoug
11/25/21 6:59pm
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