Are you a punctual person?

I am not always the best at being on time. I just seem to always have so much going on. I am working on it very hard. I am seldom late anymore, if I am it is only a few minutes. Never an hour. I always call to tell someone I am running late. If you are having a gathering and Tom is Late, wait a few minutes as a courtesy and then start without him. If you are going somewhere that you have gathered together and are sharing transportation, again give him a few minutes and leave without him. If you tell him to come earlier than the rest he will soon figure it out and go back to his old habits. I had a room-mate in college that was always at least an hour late. She would get so mad when people got tired of waiting for her and left without her. She thought the lack of manners was their fault. When I had to plan on her to get to work when my car was not working, I had to lie and say I needed to be there and hour earlier just so I could be on time. It really bothered me because I don't lie and I am terrible at it. I finaly gave up on her too. I made a point of finding someone else to give me a ride occasionally when I needed it. It is hard to know what to do when you are afraid it might end a friendship. Even harder when you are related. Good Lick !

i am very puntual person. in my life till now, i have never been late to anywhre. i am always in time. i think the other person should never wait for me. so i am early in everything.

hi there, i feel proud to say that i'm puctual.. it would happen probably 1 in 100 times that i'm late for anything, and even if i am i have a valid reason for that. now that i am punctual i expect people to be punctual with me.. i hate to wait..

I have always tried to be a very punctual person. I usually try to be where I need to be at least 15 minutes earlier than the appointed time, especially when it came to reporting for work. It makes me livid when other's - including my husband - find nothing wrong with being late. The few times I have been late for something it was due to some reason like heavy traffic or other things that were beyond my control.

You are a great friend to Tom. However, he needs to learn to be a better friend to you. Being late is disrespectful, you are right. Does he realize he does it? Is that just part of his personality? The reason I ask is that I have a sis-in-law like that too. No matter what time we set the family get together...she and her family are always late. We can count on it. With her though, she realizes it, she is always sorry...her personality is one that she gets so busy doing so many things that she literally forgets what time it is. In the early years of our marriage, this was a real problem for me. However, we have started telling her the starting time is earlier than it really is and she manages to get there "on time" now. I've come to love and respect her despite this I guess. Best wishes with you and your friend. :) Susan

I make sure this time that I will be on time,my husband will dispise that I'm late because I'm on pilipino time which is always late .and I hate to hear that because he's australian.

It is not being dishonest, it is just not thinking or planning ahead, coupled with trying to get everything done in the last moment. And then if he has to travel, not taking the bus or train routes in consideration, when the taxi will arrive, how long it takes to drive, etc. You can tell him to get things ready before he leaves and leave an hour earlier so he will arrive in time. You could also tell him to come an hour later. For instance, if the dinner is at six, tell him that you are going to have an early dinner at five or if it is at 6:30, tell him 5:30. I usually get about half an hour early, although now I decided to only get there ten minutes before everything starts so I do not seem so anxious.

I hate being late, Prefer to be early. In fact if I were to be real late for school, I would just stay home instead of being late. my mom was the same way.In fact if I had a date with someone and he didn't call to say he was running a little late,I would wait an extra 20 minutes and after that I would assume that he wasn't coming and I would go home.

Of course I am. I do not want to keep others waiting. That will annoy them and make them impatient.

Am not a punctual person but not as unpunctual as your friend Tom. I don't disrespect my colleagues but i think i have poor time management. believe me tom does not feel good about being late it just happens!

I am sometimes punctual and sometimes unpunctual. As a general rule I am punctual, but sometimes public transports messes up and I am late or it is just not my morning and I am running late. If I am running late then I tend to ring or text to inform people that I am going to be late. Also if I am going to meet someone, I ring or text them to see if they are going to be punctual, so I am not waiting around for ages for them like you were for Tom.

Hello, hearsoul, i'm always punctual and i hate those who are unpunctual especially we've already made appointment days ahead. If they are busy, they should inform me beforehand rather than let me waiting for such a long time. If one's always late, i'd consider him as a impolite guy. One can't have problems or be busy all the time you know, that's the attitude counts. Last time, i met some friends, all were late and left me waiting there with nothing to do for half an hour, what's more, i arrived 30 minutes earlier, so i waited 1 hour in total, gosh **Enjoy life~~**

So darn annoying,it makes my blood boil,after all if yuore goona be late well then why not phone and say so.Thers one thing that makes me so mad in life is that people just cant keep to time.

I am punctual by and large,I will leave extral time before to do one thing.keep others wait for me is disrespect to them.

Being on time has always been very important to me, heartsoul, and I have no patience with someone who makes a habit of being late. I leave in plenty of time to make my appointments and I don't expect to be kept waiting for an overly long amount of time once I arrive. In my opinion you cannot take someone seriously who is habitually late.

I am always on time for everything. I think in my 51 years I may have been late less than 10 times. I think for a person to be on time, they have to respect the other person enough to make the effort to be on time. I can understand that soemtimes things happen and a person may be late once in a while, but to be late all of the time, to me is unacceptable. I have a sister that is always late no matter what. All of her life she has been that way and it irrates me to no end. I think she is being disrespectful by not thinking of me as being important enough for her to be on time. And now that her kids are adults, a boy and a girl, they too are always late. They grew up thinking it was okay so they do it too. When we are having a sit down family dinner. like Christmas, and we have to wait supper for an hour because they are all an hour late. We have tried the one hour early thing, but after doing it a few times, they caught on and are always late still. We don't wait for them anymore, when dinner is ready we all sit down and eat and they have to warm up their own food when they get there. This still doesn't help to keep them on time. It is maddening, but after all these years, I just tolerate it now.

I often arrive within the skin of my teeth. I am usually a couple of minutes late or right on time. I am never early. I strive to never arrive anywhere more than 15 minutes late. If I will be later than that I call and let the person know I am running behind, so if it were a dinner party, I would tell them to go ahead and start with out me, rather than make them wait for me. Being an hour late is terribly rude, I am sure you have better things to do than sit around waiting.

i think it is very rude & uncessasary.

ouch. I'm actually one really unpunctual person. But I guess I only got accustomed to that because I was once a very punctual person until I got tired of waiting.

It can't say whether this the good answer or don't know about my self unless other comment me but I like to dress well and suit up my dress and I like to be casual.so I think I am punctual to my attitude.