August meme, Day 14

[thismaz]

Hello Friday. It's mid-August already and it was dark when I first woke up this morning, so I pretended it wasn't 5am and went back to sleep for an hour until daylight arrived properly. It was dark when I went to bed last night, too. Sorry for the downer, but I see autumn on the horizon.

And talking about early and late:

14. Are you usually

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[tabaqui]

I arrive way early for planes and movies and things, too - i get nervous i won't be able to find a thing (which, yeah, i got lost on the way to the airport once, so.....) and I hate being rushed.

Growing up, though, and married to my ex-SO, i had to deal with my dad and my ex who would both putter around, doing last minute 'important' things, while the rest of us waited on them. I did a lot of reading pre-church in my kid days, while dad poked at something in the workshop. Ah, well!

[thismaz]

Oh dear, that must have been so tension generating.

[tabaqui]

Well, it certainly taught us kids patience? Heh. And none of us really wanted to go to church, anyway.
And made my mom so exasperated. I find that my sis and i are pretty much never late, but my two brothers...tend to be, heh.

[brunettepet]

I hate being late but have married a man who could care less. It's maddening when we're actually on a real schedule. Unfortunately we usually arrive in the nick of time, but I want to be relaxed not jittery and wrong footed. He's not doing this on purpose, it's just the way he's wired. It's still crazy making.

[thismaz]

Oh dear, my sympathies.

[texanfan]

Unfortunately, I have many friends who post those, who will share this post memes. I ignore them.

Early, definitely! I strive to be early although there are times I take pains to be exactly on time as I know I will be interrupting something if I'm a few minutes early. But I hate being late. If circumstances make me late to an event I have an intense desire to just not go at all.

[thismaz]

So do I. They feel too much like blackmail - like those "I won't write another chapter unless I get XX comments on this one" author's notes I used to occasionally see when I read fan fic.

That is exactly the way I feel, too.

[kazzy_cee]

It's courteous to be early rather than late. I hate it when people are constantly late - it's so rude.

[thismaz]

I think so, too.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

This sounds very familiar!

And yes, autumn is coming. Definitely so. Not a bad thing, of course, but I do feel like this year has slipped by without anyone noticing.

[thismaz]

*grins*

It has really, hasn't it? So strange. I suspect in the future it will be dubbed 'The year that didn't happen'.