Early, Late or On time?

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  1. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?
     
  2. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?
    I have every intention of being early or on time but am often only on time or late. Part of that is I procrastinate things I'd rather not do or I find boring even if I've moved the deadline forward to account for this. A classic example is, I had a job application due at 11.55pm last Thursday and had said I wanted to get it done the weekend before but by Wednesday at the latest, I started it at about 7.30pm the night it was due - I did make the deadline by about 2 1/2 hours in the end. When it comes to going out or meeting friends I tend to build in a bit of leeway as I have to rely on others (taxi, bus or trains) to help get me places so that I don't appear as late as if I didn't have a fixed timeline.
     
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  3. HeatherB

    HeatherB Ain't nothin wrong with a few dust bunnies!

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    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?

    Unfortunately, we are often late to family gatherings. We try to be on time. I ask everyone to get ready early, I even set our "time to leave" 10 minutes early, but wrangling two young men along with dh to get to anything is a challenge. Who knew?
     
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  4. Brendazzle

    Brendazzle Shooting on the Serengeti

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    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?
    I build in a bunch of different buffers so we're never late. We're usually pretty early, which gives my kiddo time to finish his level in his video game and my husband time to catch local Pokemon
     
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  5. StefanieS

    StefanieS Think it over, think it under

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    I am usually on time, maybe even a few minutes early. With hubby and Dd though, we are often late.
     
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  6. stephc777

    stephc777 Active Member

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    I think I'm a generally on time person. Early in our marriage, my dh used to have a "more flexible" sense of time that would drive me crazy - arrival time for him was a range of 5-10 minutes around the scheduled time. Not that big of a deal when it comes to a party, but a much bigger deal for church or worship team rehearsals. As we have aged, he has shifted to being more on time which I love =)
     
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  7. scrapchyck

    scrapchyck Well-Known Member

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    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?
    I used to be early ALL THE TIME, but lately, I've taken to not stressing about time. I don't HAVE to start my day at work right at 8:00. If I'm late to church, I can slip in and find a seat. My kids doesn't care what time I show up when we're going out. But I used to always be 15 minutes early.
     
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  8. Kiana

    Kiana I'm a poet, and everyone knows it!

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    In general I am early to things. When we go out as a family, it's a bit harder to keep that same energy, but we're not usually late to things...more like on time.
     
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  9. michelepixels

    michelepixels A pun is not fully matured until it is full groan.

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    I'm an early bird this way too! Much prefer to be early.
     
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  10. umyesh

    umyesh President of the Hangry Ladies Supper Club

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    I like to think I’m early but my oldest would probably say I’m barely on time lol
     
  11. Iowan

    Iowan Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa

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    I’ve been married to Mr. punctual for 55 years so I’m usually on time!
     
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  12. bcgal00

    bcgal00 Say, "birdseed!"

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    I'd say on time or maybe slightly late...almost never early....which drives my hubby crazy. He would like to always be early.
     
  13. IntenseMagic

    IntenseMagic Some grannies cuss a lot. I'm some grannies.

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    I'm always early unless something unforseen comes up. I always feel like I'm late if I'm on time lol
     
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  14. MikkieR

    MikkieR Active Member

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    Early.....I like being on time. Better early than late is my motto.
     
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  16. cfile

    cfile My bags are packed for Platform 9 3/4

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    ha ha... me too (33 years) and always early or on time. I never leave him waiting.

    Are you often early, late or on time when it comes to your daily life?
    Most of the time I am early. I rather be early thank late. That has been since I got married. Before getting married I was punctual for everything BUT work LOL... Glad my boss knew me LOL I always made up the time and he always could count on me but I was a late person back then!
     
  17. Angela Toucan

    Angela Toucan I keep looking for THAT wardrobe

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    I grew up being at least 5 mins early for everything. We regularly had to stand around waiting when we reached our destinations. I married someone who is late for everything. So my life is a mix of both now.
     
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  18. cinderella

    cinderella I was alone once...best.day.ever.

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    Always early. Even when we're going out as a family, and I'm the last one to leave the house, because I have to pack the stuff we're going to need there, and also I have to pick up the mess everyone else left, even then, I'm early too!
     
  19. Memaw2Wm

    Memaw2Wm Well-Known Member

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    Almost always early, but not too early since I got fussed for being too early, oops! It’s rare that I’m late (except for work, lol!) and then it’s usually b/c someone in my party is running late.
     
  20. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    I'm almost always early and if I'm not, it's because I had to wait on someone else. :giggle
     

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