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Originally Posted by Gilda
My current principal is wonderful, though. The weekly meeting is schduled for after school Friday at 3:15, and she starts the meeting at precisely 3:15 according to the school clock system (all the clocks are sychronized to the second, I have no idea how). Early in the school year, we occasionally would have meetings that lasted maybe 5 minutes and had stragglers showing up for the meeting after it ended.
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Not sure about your school, but the clocks in my old high school "checked" each other every hour or so. If they were off by a certain amount of time, you'd see the clock either freeze or speed up.
As for flakiness, I try my best to always be on time. I've never once been late to work, and rarely ever was I late to school (all times with good reasons ie: the subway was delayed etc.). I have never been late when it comes to meeting people. I think the reason for this is that I
HATE waiting for people. Maybe because whenever I am waiting for someone, i'm just sitting around doing nothing.
Unfortunately, some of my friends are pretty flaky, ranging from "i'll be there in 10 minutes which actually means half an hour" to "oops, I didn't even show up." Generally, I will wait for people when we're getting together as a group, within reason. If however, you are making me wait and you are expecting me to give you a lift or something, forget it. You get there within 5 minutes of the expected time, or you take the bus.