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Posted by SMM
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16:10
Is being punctual a weakness these days? According to Facebook it certainly is. FB has come to this conclusion after a comparative survey conducted among my friends on strengths and weaknesses.
Have people lost all value for time? When invited for dinner, people tend to show up at 9 - 9:30 p.m.. Arrive any earlier and you will e deemed as a vella forever. Is IST now Indian Stretchable Time? When I was in college, my friends would tell me " For us it is 8 pm and for you SMM, the time is 10 pm." That was done so as to avoid any angry scenes later, since 8 p.m. for me is 8 p.m, and I would have invariably ended up waiting for 2 hours sending angry smses, and more often than not walking off hungry and boiling mad. Being on time these days certainly makes you a social oddity. If you actually turn up for dinner at 8 p.m., you would probably find your host lolling on the sofa in his shorts, while the hostess is still getting ready.
For me time is literally money (and the time that I am on a break, and blog, that does not count as a billable hour - FYI). I CANNOT afford to be late. Period.
I fail to understand how being late can be fashionable.I fail to understand that if you say 6 p.m. , and mean 8 p.m, then why can't you simply say 8 p.m. If you don't value your own time, how can I expect you to value my time. And if you know that your going to get stuck in traffic, my logic says leave an hour early. And if you do happen to be stuck in traffic, courtesy demands that you call and inform whosoever you are meeting, and let that person take a call whether or not he wants to still stick around for the meeting. After all that person might have also made other plans. And if your busy and cannot make it, then inform the other person as soon as you arrive at that brilliant conclusion.
I have been on the receiving end so many times that I now make it a point to inform people that I shall wait for fifteen minutes, and not a minute more, and they know that I mean it.
"Yaheen to maar kha gaya India."
(I don't remember which movie is this line from but it seemed pretty apt as the conclusion to this post)
