Are you always late or early?

I like to be on time... I mean the REAL "on time". LOL Actually, I always try to show up 5 to 15 minutes early but no earlier. I know what it's like to be on the other end when people show up extremely early when I have things planned out and those plans have to be thrown out the window. I don't like it when others show up very early and I wouldn't want to do it to anyone else. My husband, now, he's ALWAYS late. He under-estimates the time it will take to get there or he doesn't take traffic into consideration or he just assumes that showing up late is okay. I've learned how to get around that, though. I tell him we have to be there by, say, 4:30 when we really have to be there at 5:00, always a half hour earlier. That way, we're almost always on time.

When I was in highschool I was usually was very early, i arrive 10 minutes before the time. And it seems like everybody comes so late, they are about 45 min to 1 hour after the time. I hate to wait. And it happens so many times. That's why I don't come on time anymore because I don't want to wait for so long and alone. Well, it depends on the type of meeting, when I just meet up with my friends to discuss things or just chill, I come late and arrive 30 min after the time, and still I ended up being early. When I go to church I really try to be on time, because my church starts on time and even before the time. Whenever we have family gathering, I come 10 min after the time, but it still early. All in all, whenever I try to be late, I am still early because other people are still more late than me. tsk tsk.

Actually to be politically correct...you are. It is polite to be about 10 minutes early or maybe 5 but no more. Any more early is considered too much. Late is Late no matter how you look at it. I am usually about 10 minutes early. Unless it's to work when I use to go to work, then it was more because I made up for time for break downs or accidents...just to make sure I would not be late. I'd use that extra time to get a soda and go to the bathroom and sit to rest and relax before working. My daughter is like you when coming here for family functions. Since we are always having to wait dinner for her and her family it is frustrating and dinner is always having to be kept warm and gets dry in many cases so I as the cook get upset and worry about my meal being over cooked. But I want it to be done on time just in case because I tell everyone what time to be here or what I I wish the meal to start but that they can be here any time before that. For her to almost always make everyone else wait is inconsiderate. She just does not think about it, I'm sure.

Wow your husband likes to get to places early! I am usually on time or a few minutes early- unless it is a job interview then I leave an extra thirty minutes just in case. I think my family tend to dislike early arrivals so I also get there late. I don't like waiting around for things to start so I tend to just leave later!

I , generally, like to be early by 10 minutes. I have 5 kids, one of them being a little over 6 months, so being on time to anything is a challenge. The good thing is that it causes me to be very organized, which in the long run, helps everything run a lot smoother. I remember when I was a child my Mom was always late...to EVERYTHING! She still is to this day. We were late for everything..church, parties, appointments....never on time! She was always rushing and stressed and I vowed I did not want to be like that. I like to be early but not overly early. I agree with you 5, maybe 10, minutes is just right.

well, it depends on the person i'm meeting. i'm usually on time, when it's a thing that doesn't involve my friends. my friends are always late and i don't like waiting for them. so if i'm meeting them, i'm never on time unless there's a bet (yep, we actually make bets so as to keep everyone on time). but other than that, i'm usually on time, not as "on-time" as your hubby though, sort of like your "on-time". when it's appointments like interviews or job-related stuff, i' usually there about half an hour earlier but then i would hang around somewhere or go to the comfort room so that i'm there at the vicinity but not too early.

It depends, when the kids were growing up (5) we were always late, cause it was my fault, my husband would go 'do things, mow yard, fix something, cause he was waiting on me. I was getting kids around and gathering stuff up. Now if it is church I am usually late cause I am running around picking up grandkids or neighbor kids. If it is something just my husband and I are doing I am usually waiting for him but he says he is waiting for me and doing something. So I start doing somehting cause I cannot sit still (I have actully sat on the couch with my coat on waiting for him and he will say I was waiting for you!) It is a nowin situation BUT if it is just me going then I am on time.

Most of the time I am on time but when travelling and if I should get into Traffic then it can make me late, if I am early it is only about 5-10 minutes lol not like your Husband up to an hour early I would get mad at him to lol

If I say a time, I will always be there by that time or a few minutes early. If it is a long way to go by car or other transport, I have to find out the times of the trains/buses and work out which one to catch. I will arrive half-an-hour early rather than a few minutes late. If time is getting late, the mind will usually go into a state of stress and anticipation about missing a meeting. These small stressed mount up over years of being perstistently being late and it can become an issue for some people - maybe not all- but stress does have a negative effect. As a therapist, when I have been consulted by people suffering from stress, I noticed that they often were a few minutes late for their appointments with me. When I asked them how they felt about that, they invariably told me that they were stressed about it. Unless they were extremely late, I really didn't mind, but when we discussed their problem with being on time, on the follow-up appointments they were early or right on time. _Derek

Hi Reiny, Early before the appointment or family function is a good habit indeed. It just a matter of time, some people view it a 5 minutes before, some think 1 hour before. For myself, I guess 5-10 minutes would be the most appropriate indeed.

I hate to be late to anything for any reason. i have always been this way. I would rather arrive early than to arrive late. it's just the way i am.

I try to get on time, but usually I am early, hahaha. I don't like waiting for late people, and since i follow the Golden Rule then I try my best not to be late in anything.

TO avoid the rush and tension, I would go 15-20 minutes of the exact time.

I will always try to be early, but not more than half an hour early. i think the best time to be early is ten to fifteen minutes earlier. however, if i am to attend something with my friends, most of the time we will be a little late for one to five minutes because we need to wait for everybody before we can go. it is annoying. :P

When I was younger, I considered that 15 minutes early was "on time" and tried never to vary from it. Now, I run a lot like you, pretty close to time. If I am going to have to wait somewhere, or I choose to wait somewhere, I take along a book or some hand work to do so that I am putting the time to good use. Yes, my hubby gets antsy about some things and always wants to be early/on time, yet on other occasions he is the one making me late. Nothing even consistent there.

hi. in the mornings, sometimes it is since i am not a morning person. but once fully awake, i find it easy to move and not be late at all. happy mylotting

I am always early when it comes to work and appointments. I'm always worried that traffic is going to be back and I don't want to leave a bad impression on people.. especually my job. I think in over the four years I've worked at my job I've been late once and that was ten minutes late only because I slept in. I was so stressed out for the rest of the day because of that and my co-workers told me to relax lol. If I'm going to a family or friend's function or just going over to visit and I say I'm going to be there at seven o'clock then I may be a bit late or whatever because I know it's not going to effect me in a negative way or lose anything. I think being a half hour early isn't a bad thing as long as the place is opened and you're not waiting in your vehicle. Sometimes I get ready too early and don't want to hang out around home and I am just impatient. I also like to arrive at places early so I don't get stared at by people watchers lol. I'm not one to be judged and it feels ackward going into a place where you have people staring all the time. Maybe it's my own thing? Have a nice day

I'm normally on time,sometimes a little late.If it's too early,I'd rather wait at home or go out to do some shopping to while away the time. I won't arrive 20minutes earlier if it's not necessary.

I always late for everything. I late for meething, diner....

For the most part, especially when it comes to work. I try to leave early enough to where I can get there on time. I don't like getting to work late or barely on time, it just ruins the sync of the day for me.