You got it perfectly.
I agree with you completely. Though many people resent people who are late....these late people, they just don’t have a clue.
She does seem to try and fit more into a time span than is possible. For example, every choir practice if we chanced to go together, she’d spend maybe ten, fifteen minutes going through her pocketbook looking for....well I don’t know what. I had everything in order and left to make the practice on time.
Since the concept of walking in late to stuff is so horrifying to me, and I see you too....how can these people be so cavalier? She got furious with the choir director who told her that coming too late for pre-mass practice will keep her from singing. Why can’t she just arrive on time? We’re only talking 15 minutes here for God’s sake.
She quit the choir and I know it was because sooner or later she’d be late and have sit out the singing.
It’s like they know in advance that their life is built on lateness.
I just don’t get it.
One thing I know is it’ll never change. This person missed an international flight because she refused to build in any wiggle room, then took a wrong turn on the way to the airport.
I think they have a defense mechanism that they don’t feel bad about the consequences. It’s truly like a brain defect or something - so it’s better now that I don’t take it as an insult. But it’s baffling.