Timing is Everything

I guess this is a good topic for someone who is becoming consistently late doing my own blog each day.

What type of person are you? Are you always on-time to appointments? Are you without fail late? Or are you consistently twenty minutes early to appointments?

I tend to be the “twenty minutes early” person. Drives everyone nuts! No two clocks in my house are at the same time. I know why each one is set at different times, does anyone need to know??

My alarm clock is set 45 minutes earlier than I need to get up. This allows me ample time to make a pot of coffee, have a cigarette, have another cup of coffee, read the news on the internet and then, 45 minutes later, I’m in the shower, dressed, hair combed, teeth brushed, in eleven minutes flat! I wake my house mate up at 5:45 and we are out the door at 6:00AM sharp!! Drive two towns away and he is on the 6:25 bus.

Yes everyone thinks we are out the door at 6:00AM sharp, but in actuality we are out the door at 5:45! HA! Clock # 2 – The kitchen clock. The kitchen clock is the main clock in the house; all the other clocks are subservient to the kitchen clock. After all, the kitchen clock governs: cooking time, meal time, TV time, all the big activities of the day, it deserves to take the lead. All other clocks are set back or ahead based on the kitchen clocks mean time. Similar to Greenwich Mean Time, I suppose.

This works exceptionally well for doctor appointments. Let’s say your appointment is at 2:15. A ten minute drive to the doctors, so leave twenty-five minutes early, (just in case). (Leave at 1:50) In the parking lot of the doctors, you made very good time, its 2:05, head in (just in case), open the door and the waiting room is filled with ten – fifteen people with obviously the same appointment time. Check in, escorted to the exam room where you proceed to wait twenty minutes before the doctor comes in. He/She provides you with ten minutes of exceptional quality time and out the door you go. Head home ten minutes. You are back home at 2:55, but surprise! because your kitchen clock is in control, you really get home at 2:40! You’ve only been gone fifty minutes. It’s all just a deception of the mind.

Now if I could figure out how to do the same thing with a calendar…Let’s see, in January, if I make it February…. Let me work on this.