Growing up, my dad always had the clocks in the house set 5 minutes fast, a concept that I will never understand. I mean, we all knew the clocks were fast. It wasn't like it was some huge secret and our household was 5 minutes ahead of the rest of the world. But I will tell you one thing. We were never late for anything. And to this day, one of my biggest pet peeves is people being late for things.
I understand that living in Atlanta it doesn't matter where you go, you are going to run into traffic. It's a fact that we live with every day. I just don't understand why people don't take that into account when going places. It would be nice if we could all just zap ourselves from one place to the next to avoid it, but that's not happening. I can't wait until there's an app for that!
Sure, being a few minutes late to meet a friend for dinner or such is no biggie. It happens. And the best laid plans of being early can go awry in just trying to find a parking place. But there are certain things that you should never be late for. The Theater, for example. I recently saw a show at the Fabulous Fox Theater (I love being able to say that without sounding too gay since that's what it is actually called). Now, the curtain was held 15 minutes, which is another pet peeve of mine. To me, that's just setting the wrong precedent. A show is supposed to start at the advertised time. It's printed right on the tickets. Even so, there were people STILL arriving after the show started 15 minutes late. And par for the course, these people always take their time getting to their seats, which are inevitably smack dab in the middle of the orchestra. Rude! I think tickets should say 'No Late Seating'. Miss a couple of shows because you had to go through 5 outfits before finding the correct one and I bet you'll think twice about trying to coordinate something with that jacket with the pink faux fox collar. It's ugly anyway. Maybe God was trying to tell you something.
And just the other day, I was at work, where an audition was being held for a popular TV show. The audition notice clearly stated that registration would end at a certain time and that late comers would not be allowed in. So why were there fools who clearly do not understand the English language still showing up a full 30 minutes after registration had closed? And then having the nerve to throw attitude when I told them they were too late. Really? What part of the whole no late comers allowed in part did you not understand? And no, calling your agent won't do a damn thing. Unless you just got off tour with Janet Jackson I don't want to hear it.
There are all kinds of 'time' out there that people keep. CPT, GPT, and EPT are not acceptable (well maybe the last one, since if you are that kind of late you have other things to worry about). And if you don't know what those are then you need to be schooled.
Now if anyone needs me, I'll be synchronizing all the clocks in my apartment. If I set them all three minutes fast and head out now, maybe I can get there before I leave.
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