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d*d, it's not that bad timekeeping=bad person; it's that bad timekeeping = no respect for other people's time. I'm sure that disrespect is not the intent of people who are chronically late, but it's certainly the main by-product. Regardless of whether you meant for me to be disrespected, I'm still the one standing there waiting for you at the movie theater, wasting my time. Chronic lateness is also a good example of not being willing to keep your word: you agreed to be at a certain place at a certain time. If you can't be relied upon to do that, it doesn't make you a bad person, but it does make you flaky and unreliable.
Everyone's late sometimes - things happen. Traffic, emergency phone calls, whatever. But I have to deal with those things, too, and if I make an effort to be there on time and the other person never does, I feel completely unvalued.
If you KNOW your timekeeping is awful and you don't do anything to deal with it, you're implicitly saying that your bad habits are more important to you than the convenience and good will of your friends.
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