My Philippino wife does the same thing.
Anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour late is "on time".
Fairly simple when you remember that he was raised for the formative years of his life in Indonesia.
Oboma works on “South Pacific” time.
My Philippino wife does the same thing.
Anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour late is “on time”.”
I realized that some persons in my life were doing that to me on a chronic basis, and reprimands from me were going nowhere.
I was scheduled to trailer 2 horses to an event and to sponsor a junior rider who is chronically late.
I finally had enough—and I drove out without his horse and without him. He was furious, as was his mother. They tried to blame it on ‘traffic’. As life-long residents of Los Angeles, I told them they had to allow for ‘traffic’. I found out later that they arrived over 40 minutes after I left, and that there were no traffic issues on their route. They were just plain late.
After some solid words, they got the message. I particularly asked the Mom- When you fly somewhere, do you arrive 40 minutes after the scheduled departure time of the plane? She got the message, and the kid got a new look at other’s point of view.