Comments on: the punctual family

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:54:13 +0000

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.

By: Scarlett

Scarlett — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:09:01 +0000

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.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:26:29 +0000

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.

By: Bairba

Bairba — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:19:07 +0000

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.

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:11:40 +0000

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.

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:35:28 +0000

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.