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I used to be early for everything, my guy has destroyed that tendency in me! Now I'm usually just on time, and occasionally late if he is with me :)
I'm always early! I am super paranoid about being late, to the point where I think I actually have some kind of mental deficiency lol.
I hate being late, it makes me so anxious! So I make up for it by being super early to everything! I think I had the saying "early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable" drilled into me one time too many.
I am compulsively early. If I'm running behind or even running so I'll be exactly on time, I get so nervous! People being late is a pet peeve of mine, which translates into me being kind of annoyed when people are on time, because I'm usually early! And of course, most of my good friends are habitually late for everything. But FI and I are on the same page--we both like being early/on time.
People being late is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. Esp. when you're waiting for a friend at a restaurant or something and you have to wait outside or at the bar by yourself!
I'm always on time or early.
I tend to be early to everything... sometimes a little bit too early. :/
@hotchild--totally! I always feel SO awkward waiting around by myself, especially when people at the bar try to start a convo with me, and I'm like OMG friend, hurry up!
I am almost always early and very occaisionally on time. I absolutely HATE being late. And people arriving late drives me nuts! Haha, the hubs totally is on the same page as me so we are usually good.
I'm always 15 to 30 minutes early depending on the train traffic and the event. I usually carry a paperback with me to read, so time goes by faster while waiting.
i'm usually on time, but fi HATES being late, so if we're together we're always early
@jrl- LOVE that saying!!
I am usually somewhere between 5 minutes early and 1 minute late. I REALLY pay attention to how long it takes me to get places so that I can time things out perfectly.
I HATE when people are late!! It seems so rude to me (Sorry!)! When someone is late meeting me I feel like instead of saying "sorry" they might as well say "my time is more valuable than yours so you can just wait until I'm ready." I understand that sometimes things are unavoidable, but that should be the VAST exception, not the rule. Because of that my natural tendency is to always be early.... but because I hate waiting alone places I now have to stop myself and hold back so I'll only be about 5 minutes early.
Also (vent), why do so few people call if they are going to be late? If for some reason I'm going to be more than 5 minutes late (I feel the 5 minutes is a "clocks can be set slightly differently" grace period) then you need to call. No exceptions unless you're unconscious or in jail. And not just that... call as SOON as you know you are going to be late. If it takes 20 minutes to get to my house and you're still blow-drying your hair at 20 til? you know you're going to be late. call. People who call AT the time they're supposed to be there and say they're going to be late? Well no crap you're going to be late its time, i'm here, you're not.
@corgi - That reminds me of last weekend. Friends of ours were supposed to come over for 8:30. At 8:40 I texted asking if they were on their way. At 8:50 they wrote back saying they had just gotten in the door from the gym. Excuse me? How were you working out, then walking home all at the time you were supposed to be at our place and not worry about it???? ARGH. Not to mention the fact that I contacted them, at 8:40 they still hadn't felt the need to tell me they were no where near our apartment. END VENT. :)
I'm almost always early. One of my personal pet peeves (nothing against anyone) is chronic lateness. I feel like everyone is busy and I never want someone to have to waste time waiting for me somewhere. In the back of my mind, I always hear one of my HS teachers saying "Early is on-time, on-time is late and late is UNACCEPTABLE!"
Oh, sorry to the late ladies, but my biggest pet peeve is people who are significantly late. Not like 10 or 15 min, but 30-60 min people. I have a few friends like that. I actually purposely say things will start earlier because I count on them being late. I usually show up a bit early, but that I becuase I often take the bus, so I can't time showing up to a place EXACTLY on time, it is pretty much as close to the time as the bus gets met there without being late.
I used to be late all the time but now that I'm not a student anymore I am almost always on time. Not just for work, but in my personal life too. I think in school there weren't real consequences to being late (besides a teacher rolling his/her eyes at me), but in the real world it's a major no-no.
I used to be late to things a lot and would get a lot of flack about it. So, I've learned to change my ways and now I'm either a little bit early or right on time. I'm always early to work, though, helps me get a head start when it's quiet.
As a gift to yourself (bc I know how stressful being late can be, bc you get mad at yourself, feel embarassed, etc: work on this bc it's so nice not to have that extra stress, especially in an area of your life that you have almost complete control over!
I am usually 3-5 minutes late, im not sure whats up with those minutes but its true. Typical things too, not so much appointments. I think i secretly like the pressure of running late. Haha i dont know im trying my best to work on it though.
@valhalla- omg i had a friend like that in law school. i loved her dearly but she is/was the most chronically late person i've ever encountered. she was ALWAYS late. to class, to lunch, to everything. Compounding this fact was that she didn't have a car, so if we weren't going somewhere within walking/bus distance I had to pick her up (which in itself was not a huge deal because i lived close to her), but when i would show up to pick her up and she'd make me wait 15 min and then we were both late? SEETH. We had quite a few arguments about it. It finally got to the point that i told her if i got to her house and she made me wait more than 2 min i was driving off and never picking her up again. problem? solved.
it depends..... any appointments or school stuff (doctors, interviews, flights, class..etc. ) i was/am super super early... like get to a lecture and i'm the first one there before the teacher early.
Lunch with friends, work (whoops!), parties, etc. i'm usually at least 10 minutes late but nothing like 40 minutes late.
I'm on time or early for everything except work, where I'm always late because I simply don't care enough to get here on time.
haha @Kitty- thats how i feel too.. and my boss doesn't mind so its a-ok :)
I tend to usually be on time. FI is ALWAYS late. Well... not for really important things... but for regular things, like meeting up with friends or grabbing dinner, he is ALWAYS late. If he is on time, it's b/c he made a mad dash at home to get ready on time, and in the process he totally stressed himself out and is now in a bad mood. It's something that I've come to accept about him. I try to keep him on point... and make him get in the shower more than an hour before we need to leave the house. But it's always a struggle!
I am always early for everything. I often feel stupid waiting around and what not, especially for social gatherings but if its for anything school or business related I would way more likely be early and feeling silly waiting around rather than being late.
Kinda depends on what it is.
Dinner with a friend? On time unless i was late b/c of work/traffic, which we're all understanding about.
Dinner at MIL's house? Eh, I'll lolly gag a little, especially if it's like "come over at 3pm and stay til 9pm" kind of a deal (usually).
I'm always early to classes (i hate being late) or doctors appointments...stuff like that i really book it to get there
I used to be late often then in vet school everyone kept saying that there was certain profs that would nail people for this so I started making it a point to be on time but I still didn't think it was a big deal if you were a few minutes late then one of our profs took 10% of a girls final grade away (rumor was she had a low but passing grade after the final and then the prof took 10% away!) for continued lateness and she ended up failing the class. Our program does not allow for classes to be repeated so she basically failed out of vet school because she was constantly late to class. I have never been late again out of fear.
I'm always, always, always early. FI is always late. It makes me INSANE!
I almost am always late and the FI loves to be early...it makes for an interesting car ride!! :-)
I am INSANELY early. Hubs is always right on time, or late...so, we're working on this, hah!
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I am ALWAYS late for everything! Not by a lot, but just late. It drives FI CRAZY!!!! He likes to be early for everything. Are you always late too?