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Originally Posted by SirOsis
People have touched on it already, and I'm a huge believer in owning up to your lateness. Being late sucks, but it compounds it when you string the person along saying you'll be there in 5min instead of the 40min reality. Don't do that, own it, be accurate. Five minutes gives me time to take a leak, maybe order a drink. Forty minutes gives me time to sneak out and murder a hobo.
Yeah, you're right.
I've gotta chime in here because it seems like the majority of SE are awesome people who show up on-time/early.
I am not one of these people. I'm a habitual late person. I also am guilty of the 5-minute rule, whereupon I'm generally 10mins+ away.
How to explain it? My time management is the worst. It's not as though I'm deliberating lying OR "my time is more valuable than yours". It's that I legitimately think I'm leaving myself enough time to get from point A to point B, but I fail to account for the variables well.
Lately I've been much better, since I understand how bad it is, but the one perk is it's made me able to handle the opposite, when it's done to me. (And it's commonly done to me too) Basically, live and let live attitude.
My family is like this in general. My mom is the Queen of the 5 minute rule, where 5 minutes to her is a New York Hour.