The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: SourdoughStomper on June 22, 2017, 05:43:10 AM
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I like to be a little early on right on time. When I was younger, I had a mindset of "If I'm not there 30 minutes early, I'm late!" :P That was before I had children. It's a little different now, but better since they aren't as little as they were.
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I'm always early for everything. I had a teacher whose motto was, "Early is on time and on-time is late." I guess I have taken that to heart. My parents both have always wanted to be early for everything, too.
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I'm typically right on the dot or little late for everything, especially now, when paired with my husband. Even work :/ Luckily we have a 5 minute grace period, although in his department that pretty much amounts to nothing (they are stricter than the department I work in). I used to be slightly early/right on time for most everything on my own.
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I used to be always try to be about 5 minutes early - which meant getting there a half hour early an killing time nearby until I was ready. Or when meeting someone getting somewhere a half hour early and watching so I'd walk in just after them so I wouldn't have to be the first person to arrive and wait awkwardly.
I started receiving treatment for anxiety though and now it's normally I'll be a little early or right on time for everything but work :lol: I guess the frustration I'm feeling with the company I'm working for makes me a lot less motivated to get here on time. Plus I'm working 14 hour days and having trouble getting up in the morning. They're pretty lax though. I *should* be getting in for 9am but as long as I get in before 9:30am nobody will complain.
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"Early is on time and on time is late" is my motto too. :P I just can't STAND being late. I'm always super early. Sometimes I try to be a little later, but it doesn't work. It's just not in my system. :lookround:
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Yeah, I am generally late or just on time. It's chronic and it's a really bad habit but for some reason I can't seem to shake it. I know it's there but I haven't been able to improve it much. I was rarely late when I was in high school and I wonder what happened. I have anxiety which one would think would help but it almost has the opposite effect like I don't like being early and "wasting time". I have started adding 10-15 minutes to the start of things like work so I leave earlier than I absolutely need to just make it on the dot, and even then I still just barely make it. I constantly feel behind or like I am getting nothing done too. Which makes no sense that I am late all the time. However, my mom is always late also, so I don't know if I get it from her or what but it's annoying.
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Usually early. Generally because I expect to get lost and so leave plenty of time for that...
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I like to be a little early- if I'm running late I'll be right on time.
Aggravatingly enough, my wife likes to be RIGHT on time or a little late... so she gets resentful because I'm always rushing her, and I get resentful because she does so much needless fussing when we could just GOOOO.
Of course, now that we have a baby we tend to be late if he is along unless I'm PUSHING HARD for us to be 20 minutes early...
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I'm always super early for everything, unless getting there is out of my control. Like my oboe lessons, last time I was slightly late... but that's because I can't drive and was relying on my parents to drive me. If it had been me, I probably would have been literally 30 minutes early.
I tend to overestimate how long it will take me to get places and end up there super early.
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I'm always early. I probably shouldn't be, because every time I show up for something and no one else is there, I get all anxious thinking I've got the wrong place, wrong time etc... But I guess I'd be even more anxious if I risked being late.
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I picked either a few minutes early or right on time! I've had semesters where I've had 100% perfect attendance without even being late once. I'm really only ever late to class if public transportation is having big issues for whatever reason. I'm an anxious person in general and missing class or whatever or being late makes me incredibly stressed out.
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I tend to be a little early or late depending.
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Late. Always Late...
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For things that are VERY important(like job interviews or doctors appointments), I'm usually extremely early. I'll sit in the parked car and read until a few minutes before the appointed time if I'm really early. I like to have"emergency time" available for unexpected things like unexpected traffic or just plain getting lost.
For most other things, I'm on time. For particularly casual things, or things with an open-ish time, I'll sometimes be a few minutes late.
My dad is chronically extremely early, and he doesn't get invited to parties anymore because of it. He's shown up while people were still in the shower before:p
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I'm always early.
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I'm always late, much to everyone's distain. My mother in particular views anything not significantly early as late and can't stand my habbit. I am lucky I don't have to clock in at my job. >_< I am on time for things like interviews, but otherwise look for me to be running behind.
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I'm always early.
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I wish there was something in between always early and the few minutes early/right on time, because that's more where I fall, haha (though I went with few minutes early/on time).
If you have to get me somewhere any time when I'll be waking up, I will likely be barely on time or a few minutes late, simply because it is very hard for me to wake up, I usually need a good hour or so before I actually need to be up to get up. It was murder when both my husband and I were working at our church, I was the reason we were always barely on time... that snooze button is my friend.. if I even rationalize the alarm is on (I hit snooze without even hearing the alarm sometimes! Just on sleepy auto pilot...)
Otherwise I like to be places between super early/a little bit early, depending. I don't like all eyes being on me, so coming on time or a little late gives me anxiety just thinking about it. If I'm early there's less people to look at me show up, though if I'm the first one there I then worry if I'm at the right place, at the right time, on the right day... hahaha.
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I'm always early. I remember one job interview, years ago, when I was so early that I sat outside in the bus shelter for twenty minutes till I wasn't so early anymore... and they still thought I was too early! Well, I got the job, so they can't have minded too much.
When I don't know the area, I tend to be super-early, just in case I can't find the meeting point and have to have a look around. When I know the area, I'm just normal early, maybe five minutes earlier than the arranged time.
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I plead the Fifth.
(for those of you not in the US, that's our right to not self-incriminate)
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I hate being late and always prefer to get there slightly early. Especially for important things like doctor's appointments where you are a new patient. There are bound to be forms to fill in, so getting there half an hour earlier than the appointment time is a good plan. However in the normal course of things 15 minutes before time is good enough for me.
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It seems I'm in the minority, I tend to be late for things or leave late and it's made up for in the car trip; I often underestimate how long it will take me to do things and in general have a poor perception of the passage of time, and most visual spacial learners have this problem. I also hate being ready early and see it as a waste of time (partially because if I get ready too early somethings will need to be redone anyway), it's really annoying for me when somebody arrives early for something.
Plus my own perspective is that I don't mind being kept waiting if I have something else to do in the meantime and with work the job getting done is the important thing so if somebody came in late but still finished when they needed to or stayed late to finish I wouldn't mind, so the "What would you think in the opposite sitution arguement doesn't work"
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Late, late, late. Doesn't matter what it is, it always seems to happen. Part of it is likely that I don't drive and other people generally aren't as anxious to get to other people's things as the person going is. But that does not excuse the smaller stuff in life that I'm always late for. I was much better about this when I was younger, but time and age have seemingly blurred the lines a bit more than I'd necessarily like.
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I am always early for everything, I cannot stand being late or feeling rushed. I need time to compose myself too.
Love pkw xxx
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I'm always early for everything. I had a teacher whose motto was, "Early is on time and on-time is late." I guess I have taken that to heart. My parents both have always wanted to be early for everything, too.
that was me before i got a baby.. ahh! =)
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Usually on time, sometimes a little early or a little late. Being early is just wasting my precious time, so I cut it as close as possible.
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It depends.
When it's something important (like a job interview), I'm always early, and not just 5 minutes early.
For "regular" things (meeting with friends, for local pick-ups when selling), I'm trying my best to be just right on time. I don't like to be late, but having to wait without really being able to do something is much more frustrating to me than being 3-5 minutes late. If I see I am going to be late I always tell the person who is waiting for me.
The funniest thing is: I'm pretty much always late for work. Thankfully though, tthat is not a problem, because my job does not involve starting/needing to be available right on time. If we arrive 30 minutes later we don't even have to call in, but if it's more than 30 mins it's also enough just to text my manager, and she does not mind. She knows we often have times when we can't finish on time either, and have to stay in the office another 10-30-50 minutes, or even more, so things balance out. As long as I'm not late for a meeting and do my job well and on time, she does not mind such inconsistencies in our morning arrival. I really love how fair she treats us in this. And this made me pick up a habit of "oh, I still have time for this before work", and I usually do shopping, taking sold stuff to the PO and quicker tasks before I set off to the office. If I ever move jobs I'll have a hard time getting back to the habit of getting there on time XD
(When I meet my sister I'm always late. I know she'll be even more late anyway :P )
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I'm so nervous of being late that I usually end up being half an hour early to everywhere. :rolleyes: Except for school. I'd rather be a few minutes late than a lot early.
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I was late on my final paper presentation. I was late on buying a full set G2 Butterfly for 1$. I was late on all my dates. You can guess...
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I quote The Doctor on this : "I´m very particular about time!" oh yeah :P Sounds like me! Always early! If you see me coming in late... uhm no, that wont happen :P (well it might when I have to rely on others to get anywhere)
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.... I'm usually late for (almost) everything .... :yikes: :blush: :help:
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late, late, late, late... no matter what, I'm always late! :(
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I have a natural propensity for being late.
But I overcompensate by being ridiculously early.
Go figure. :shrug:
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I absolutely hate being late for anything and I really dislike people who are constantly running behind time. My ex-boyfriend was like this. It took me 8 years to work out that if I told him to be somewhere 15 minutes earlier than he had to he would arrive on time and I wouldn't look like the worlds biggest nag. LOL
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Most of the time, I'm about 10-20 minutes early to wherever I need to be. However, whenever I'm going anywhere with my parents, they'll wait long enough to leave that by the time we get there, we're late.
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I get so nervous about being late that I'm usually 15 minutes early. Unless it's for work. I can't seem to come into work on time. Lol
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