#punctuality

[pratchettquotes]

It is the nature of the universe that the person who always keeps you waiting ten minutes will, on the day you are ten minutes tardy, have been ready ten minutes early and will make a point of not mentioning this.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

[misheancolchester]

how late is too late?

[tenderbittersweet]

What do you consider to be an example of someone “running late”?

I was raised that if I’m five minutes early, I’m ten minutes late. Now that I’m an adult, I tend to arrive five minutes early or right on time, but I’m curious what other people consider to be good manners or good preparation.

[heardatmedschool]

9:00

Student 1: The doctor said to be very punctual

Student 1: Be there at max 11:30

Student 1: Bc he wants us to start as soon as he gets out of surgery

10:40

Student 2: Is it in the maternity residence?

Student 3: Yes

Student 1: *currently at a hospital in the other side of the city* Wait

Student 3: What?

Student 1: It’s at the clinic? Not online?

Student 2: RIP

[savagechickens]

Ready To Party.

And more parties.

[cookiefate]

Cookiefate for April 7th: "Punctuality is the expression of commitment."

Don't come off thirsty, sleep in late today. Keep them guessing.

[creatingnikki]

Four years later I again find myself with some time to contemplate at a bar as I wait for a friend. How did these years pass? How did I become this person? How did I get here? From beer to whisky. From one city to another. From sparkly dreams to desperate desires. H O W. And where will I find myself four years from now? Satisfied? Whole? Not waiting? Yeah, not sure about that last one. Seems like it's the most difficult thing for people, punctuality.

[claires-audience]

The reason why I arrive early to things is not because i plan well, its because I get anxious in advance very well. I be sleeping a day before a meeting and dream of getting late and the next day every action will revolve how it can get prolonged and then I’ll be late for the “thing”. I am like a protagonist of a jane austen novel who the hot chick falls in love with

[lauraisabelart]

💫 Keep your unrealistic punctuality expectations to yourself 🤚 | Here’s a rough timelapse of the making of Louise. I first sketched her years ago in an old sketchbook I no longer own. As soon as the pen-and-paper sketch was ready, I began drawing her on my iPad, which explains why you see me tracing digitally from a notebook page.

I often start a sketch, and in the process, a story or a piece of dialogue will come to me—that’s how I’ll know I have something. This process reminds me a bit of how songwriters create music: some of them come up with the melody first and then the lyrics, while for others, the lyrics always come first. Well, in my case, the sketch usually comes first, and the story takes shape as I draw.

As nothing came to me while tracing her for the second time, I set her aside for months—years, actually—and I’d nearly given up on her until a few weeks ago, when I found her while looking through my old sketch files for inspiration. And then it came to me, so here she is 💖 our queen of running late, Louise.

[la-pheacienne]

For people who are punctual and arrive on time, who do you do it? Like how. You are also on tumblr so I assume you spend a fair amount of time online and/or on your phone so.... how the fuck are you punctual, ready on time etc HOW. I NEED TO KNOW.

[sspacegodd]

It's never really what time it is.

[memoriae-lectoris]

Traditional Japanese expected guests to come one hour late; modern Greeks (who dislike very hot food) would be shocked if you arrived less than half an hour after the stated time. Respect for and submission to the host’s expectations is common to both systems: a polite guest should adapt either to the nature of the meal and the trouble that has been taken with it, by coming on time, or to the host’s privacy and a culture’s general distaste for hurrying, by coming late.

Punctuality has a lot to do with another cultural particularity: the nature and length of pre-dinner socializing. We ourselves expect guests to contain their appetites for some time before dinner is ready; we keep them busy with tidbits, conversation, and pre-dinner “drinks.” No matter how slow the hosts are about giving us something solid to eat, we as guests must never ever complain, or even look as though we are aware of the delay.

In some northern European societies, as most of us used to do in the past, guests arrive and everyone sits down at once to dinner, so it is essential to be on time. In many non-European cultures socializing takes place first, but talking is kept to a strict minimum while eating, and people might be expected to leave straight after the meal, so that it would be extremely rude to arrive just before dinner, skipping all the conversation beforehand.

Arjun Appadurai, describing how food can be used to express conflict in a Tamil Brahman household, shows how the women responsible for cooking and serving food in a large family can “abbreviate” the meal to express any grievances they might be harbouring. They can also direct members of the family to inappropriate places—for example, a teenager being seated with the children, or a senior member of the family next to a “poor cousin”; or they might serve the food in an order calculated to insult someone who has offended them. Relatives or guests who are in disfavour can be “put down,” as we say, in what amounts to revenge by seating and serving order.

Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century aristocrats in Europe, on the other hand, increasingly ate together in small groups, and would not hear of hierarchical seating; their hosts decided who would be a compatible group to invite, and guests sat down near the people they preferred. Tables were often quite small and, significantly, round.

What had in fact happened at these “intimate suppers” was that the people who sat “below the salt” had simply been banished from the party. During the course of two centuries, the lord of the manor had gradually removed himself, during dinner, from the sight of his retainers, to eat with chosen companions in a room set apart from his great hall.

It is easy—and so very modern—to be egalitarian once the lower orders have been placed in a totally different sphere, out of sight and out of mind, and certainly not invited to one’s table.

[arrows-bullshit]

I will be getting rid of this pfp at exactly 12:00.

[evilhorse]

I’m a nut for punctuality.

[brookepricer]

Daily Spell: August 22nd

Spell for Punctuality

You’ll Need:

A digital watch

A quartz crystal

We all know that person who is never on time for anything. Sometimes a bit of a magical nudge is in order to help ensure punctuality. You can do this spell on someone else’s behalf, or if that person is you, do this working to help get yourself places on type so they you no longer keep others waiting.

Pull the watch in your dominant hand, and the crystal and the other. Say “Minutes and hours, no more running late, I'll get to places on time, and not tempt fate.” Bring the crystal and watch together in your hands and say “Hours and minute, I will be on time, from now on punctual, the choice is mine.”

Wear the watch on the wrist of your nondominant hand and carries a crystal in your pocket as a reminder that you need to get moving.

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“Daily Spellbook for the Good Witch: Quick, Simple, and Practical Magic for Every Day of the Year,” by Patti Wigington 

[fieriframes]

[Punctuality is the politness of kings p.154.]