I love that the WordPress prompt is tardy because it’s something that baffles me almost every week. How can someone have 8 Kids and make it to a dental appointment, on time, with kids in tow. Yet there are some out there whose sole responsibility is a plant and they have to reschedule their 1:30 PM lunch date on a Saturday, because they couldn’t get their shit together.
My husband and I have different philosophes when it comes to tardiness/being on time. I like to be about 5 minutes early. If I have to travel somewhere far away, I try to be about 15-20 minutes early. My husband on the other hand, has the philosophy, and I quote,
“If you are on time, you are late.”
Whhhaaattttt…….
Because of this, I’ve coined the term: OBNOXIOUSLY EARLY. He is what I call obnoxiously early. Obnoxiously early is when you are too damn early, like, sitting in an empty theater for 30 minutes because the movie doesn’t start for 45 minutes more minutes, early. If we have to be at a soccer tournament 1.5 hours away and it’s at noon, we will leave the house at 9 A.M.
“Well there may be traffic,” he’ll say.
“Darling, it’s Sunday and Dayton isn’t exactly a hot bed of action on a Sunday morning.”
Regardless, I allow ample time to get ready, usually 1 hour. But that’s when at 8:40 he announces, “we better leave at 8:50 since we have to load the car up.
“Are we packing an RV?” I ask.
Coping With Tardiness
There are certain people in my life that are perpetually late. I used to get pissed off, even offended. Now I’ve just come to realize, that’s just them. It still bugs me but not as much. In fact, I’ve begun to just flat-out lie about the start time of a function. If something starts at 6, I tell them 5:30.
“If you love someone lie to them, if it was meant to be, they’ll show up on time.”
Isn’t that how the quote goes? No?
I was brought up knowing the saying: If you’re early, you’re on time, If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, don’t even bother. As such, I prefer to be like you, 10-15 minutes early. My ex was one of those carefree artsy type. He wore a watch, but refused to be on time to anything (yes, he made it a point to be late mainly because it bugged me so much). That was one of the worst qualities he had. Now Fella, he’s like you and me. He likes to be kind of early, but not too early ’cause, really? Anything over an intentional 30 minutes is a bit much.
You know what I hate? Is when I have meetings and the attendee is like 20 minutes early. I’m like really? Every minute is precious and now your going to be this early? I’m glad that you and fella are just a few minutes early and not obnoxious about it!
I’m with you on the time thing. I will always be about 5 minutes early to something. I get too anxious if I know I’m going to be late. It sucks. But I also don’t understand people who are grown adults who can’t be on time for things. Not with kids. After working with kids, I understand that they will never be on time because you tell them to get ready and that “we are leaving at 11” and then at 11 one of the kids will decide that NOW is the perfect time to start having a shower because they want to see you slowly die on the inside *deep breath* But adults who are only controlling themselves for that outing and can’t be on time? GAH so annoying….
That made me laugh out loud! Exactly about adults! Why can’t they be on time? Plan accordingly! I get traffic can hold you up but for most things, that’s not an issue. My son last week when at 8:30 I told him it was time for his 8:30 bedtime, he announces he was making popcorn first. I told absolutely not as he has had hours after dinner to do this! Grrrr!!!!
Yes exactly!! My kidlets do the exact same thing. Tv show, story time and THEN they think they are going to have dinner? Ummmm no.
The bathroom excuse is the worst. Then they look at you like, “you won’t let me pee?” That’s not the point kid!
Yeah!! The point is you should have had your shower and brushed your teeth and got dressed 45 mins ago when I said ypu had 45 minutes before we were leaving.
I used to be “on time is late” kinda person, but traffic in the Denver area has gotten so bad that 2hours early is required. So….crap! Gotta go, I’m running on time!
Oh, traffic is so horrible here in Columbus too! It kills me when I have an after work dental or hair appointment. Without fail, that will be the time some ass hole decides to drive like a moron and before you know it, his car is half up on a concrete barrier and half on the road (this is a direct example of what I saw yesterday driving home).