the punctual family
my family has always had a thing about being late so now we set our clocks twenty minutes ahead of time so we are always early no matter what. plus we leave early to make sure we get there early so i’m always there like half an hour early for everything.
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I do this too! However, I don’t want anyone to know how early I am so I always have to sit in the car or walk around until it’s time.
I can’t stand people who do that. My clocks are always almost right (one or two minutes more or less), and I really think it is a stupid habit. Sometimes you need to be able to know if you can still have time to do something before going somewhere else – and in that case your clock will not help you… Besides, you reach a point where you learn to have 20 minutes tolerance because you know that’s how much time you have ahead, and you start going to places at 20:20 instead of 20:00 because your clock is 20 minutes ahead, until the day you follow some other clock and you really get there late.
I tried that many times but I agree with Luis. I used to do that with my alarm clock in the morning. i would set it some odd amount of time off like 17 minutes. Then I would wake up and spend a few half-awake minutes trying to subtract 17 from whatever the time was so I knew exactly how much time I could sleep. I could never trick myself.
My mom has a thing about being late/making me late for everything. I would often tell her I have to be somewhere an hour and a half before i had to be so that she would get me there on time.
My family does this too! My Mom’s are 15 min. and my sisters are 20 min! I am actually around the correct time, but I always leave way too early.
I do that too. my clock is 5 minutes ahead and I leave a few minutes early so I know I won’t be late.