Question of the Day, Friday, March 6

Good morning and Happy Friday!

Are you an early person, an on time person, or a late person? 

I'm pretty much an early person. If I'm meeting friends for dinner at 5:30, I'll probably show up around 5:15 or so and either wait in my car until somebody else comes or go into the restaurant and grab a table. (Actually, I'm usually in the restaurant drinking my first margarita when the next person shows up. )  I'm never late unless there's a very good reason for my tardiness. One of my GFs is always late, late, late. The last time we all went for dinner, we decided to meet at 5:30. She showed up a little after 6:00 and we decided to go ahead and order our drinks and food. I think she was a little upset, but well, after a while, we got tired of constantly waiting on her.

Early, obsessively early. I would rather be 45 minutes early than 30 seconds late. I can't stand the people who are always late - one of my boyfriend's friends is like that, and he admits it but he never makes an effort to leave earlier knowing that.

Another early person here. It drives some people nuts, too.

Thinking about it, I probably developed the habit back in elementary school. My mom used to make me leave about 15 minutes early every day because I "wasted" a lot of time petting dogs and cats on the way to school. :lol3: I still do.

It's called networking!

Definitely a early person. I have family members on both sides of the family who are ALWAYS late, at least 30 minutes, and my mom holds dinner for them, ruining a lot of meals. My daughter and I never hold dinner for them, they are late, they eat alone. I have always thought people who are habitually late are incredibly conceited to think the world should go on hold or change for them. If you are late a few times, START EARLIER!!!!! If you INSIST on being late, suffer cold meals and cancelled appointments. Time management is not that hard, after all, the rest of the world manages to do alright.

Early or on time. The times that I'm just on time for something usually have a reason (kids in car seat then needing to be changed is the biggest reason).

I am always early.  I never like being late for anything. I'm afraid that there will be car problems, traffic issues, etc that will cause me to be late. I always leave 30-40 minutes earlier than my normal drive time just to be on the safe side.

I am always early.  I am the same way with sitting in the car and waiting for someone else to come.

Early. Obsessed with timing. My inlaws are always late. Maybe that is why they bought me a holding warmer for Christmas. I time my meals for guest to have everything perfect and warm when everyone arrives. They arrive 30 minutes late at least. My parents were always early for appoitments as is my child.

I am noticing a pattern, maybe Cat people like to be on time. My Cats demand their food on time also.

Now I feel out of place! :anon:

Late. Always late, but only by a few minutes. Even if I TRY SO HARD to be early, something always happens so I'm a few minutes late. Sometimes it feels like I get stuck in a time warp or something :tongue2:, so that even when I leave early and nothing happens to slow me down, I'm still late!

On time, pretty much, or a little early. Something major has to happen for me to show up late.

KittyMomma1122 said:

 
Early. Obsessed with timing. My inlaws are always late. Maybe that is why they bought me a holding warmer for Christmas. I time my meals for guest to have everything perfect and warm when everyone arrives. They arrive 30 minutes late at least. My parents were always early for appoitments as is my child.

I am noticing a pattern, maybe Cat people like to be on time. My Cats demand their food on time also.

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My sister and her husband are the exact same way. When we plan on doing anything I always tell them 30 minutes earlier just so they will be on time.  If, by chance, they get there before me, I will tell them I was running late.

Early for sure.  I'd rather know I had some extra time to myself, than inconvenience anyone.  

I'm always early! I plan everything to avoid getting axious.

Another early person - more like "super early" - sometimes it's embarrassing that we arrive so early. But I'd rather be early than late.

I used to be early for everything. Now I feel like I have to work super hard not to be late. If I have an appointment I try to plan ahead and allow some cushion time because we always need it.

It seems to me that tardiness can be a habit that requires discipline to break. I am NOT a morning person at all. That doesn't help matters.

I'm an on time person, always have been.  I don't like late comers either.

MoochNNoodles said:

I used to be early for everything. Now I feel like I have to work super hard not to be late. If I have an appointment I try to plan ahead and allow some cushion time because we always need it.

It seems to me that tardiness can be a habit that requires discipline to break. I am NOT a morning person at all. That doesn't help matters.

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Holy smokes, you have two little kids, cut yourself some slack. 

Usually on time but occasionally disastrously late. I was once 24 hours late for a flight because the check-in time on the ticket was 00.00 Friday. I thought this meant midnight on Friday but it actually means Thursday night/Friday morning.

Dumb airline tickets.

The lucky thing was I was travelling alone from one remote part of Asia to another and the flight was almost empty, so the ground staff just let me get on the next flight without paying for another ticket.

I can function well either way, but if I have my choice, I'm up around eight in the morning and in bed by seven at night.