Today’s burning question from Cyranny is: “Whatβs one odd thing about yourself that you would never want to change?”
Perhaps itβs not so terribly odd but for me it is a no-brainer: Promptness, as in I am never late β¦ never; there’s no good excuse or acceptable justification to make anyone wait for me because in the scheme of things, I am just not that important.
I have a family member who is consistently late and by consistently I mean late for everything, even her daughter’s recent wedding (how is something like that even possible?); we like to joke around that sheβs going to be late for her own funeral but all the joking in the world doesnβt erase how irritating it is to have to wait for her every single time and itβs gotten to the point that we have to fib a little and give her a 20 minute earlier meeting time knowing sheβll be 20 minutes late but will actually show up on time β¦ lol β¦ see how that works?
Sure, shit happens, like being unable to control the weather or traffic; maybe we canβt control it but we can anticipate it by checking our weather apps and bringing along a freaking umbrella or listening to the traffic report and leaving the house 15 to 20 minutes earlier than the other guy … the guy who doesn’t care if he shows up late and makes people wait.
Iβd rather be half an hour early for my doctor appointment than arrive 5 minutes late; at least I can get myself a cup of coffee, listen to the radio and relax in my car until itβs time to go in, even though chances are excellent the doctor will be running late!
In that case I am faced with the one thing I dislike more than being late and that, my friends, is called βThe Hurry Up And Wait Syndromeβ; man oh man, does that ever burn my biscuits β like an old Sunbeam Toaster Oven stuck at 475ΒΊ!
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