TOO LATE!

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

TOO LATE!

§] Some people ore born punctual, and others never achieve that, state, pi Time means absolutely nothing to them. They are invariably late for I® business and for luncheon appointments. People who never miss a train or never arrive late at a rendezvous or a play cannot possibly realise the mental agony other persons who have the " no-idea-of-time" complex undergo. If tho culprit is a husband, and it was his wife whom he kept waiting, ho often has to listen to a homily on unpunctuality for an hour or two,' which thoroughly spoils the enjoyment of both. Ej But quite often it is not, the fault of the unpunctual person at all H that he is late. Circumstances combine to delay him at tho last [| minute; but once a person gets a reputation for failing to keep an np|j pointmont, at the right moment nobody believes ho is not over after[l wards deliberately careless. ij It is n')t much good, in any case, scolding a man or woman for gj keeping one waiting. Nobody would deliberately lw so discourteous, pi The best plan is to forget tho offence, real or imaginary, the. [I moment the meeting is accomplished.