or of course: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.

you know, I always found it more efficient to be late... back when I was in school I was always purposely 15 minutes late since that was about the time when I could read everything that was on the board quickly before it was erased... would save 15 minutes in every class * 4 classes a day... as you can see it adds up :)

Aydin.

Stop kidding yourself with pithy quotes and denial -- you are habitually late for the same reasons I am habitually late:

1) Over-scheduled with too many projects;
2) Poorly organized / bad time management skills;
3) Self-involved;

You can mock the people you (we) inconvenience with our lateness, quote Waugh & Emerson all day long, but please, don't bullshit yourself in the process . . .

Barry -- Our ids need to talk.

....yet you still have time to write this blog.

Yup, guilty as charged. Although the blog long-ago stopped, for better or worse, being an entirely recreational pursuit for me.

Then again, as Barry self-critically points out in an early comment, my own punctuality problem, like his, is only partly to do with being over-committed.