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To: Edwarda who wrote (32933)	3/21/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have also learned that I had better watch the time when he is with me or he'll be irredeemably late leaving here. Just one more thing that absolutely needs attention.... lucky woman.

To: Edwarda who wrote (32933)	3/21/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Dear Punctual People --- I have painfully read this discussion and even lied about it a little bit (I never dropped anyone because they were late). Students wander in an out of my classes as they wish. I try to be punctual, but it never really seems to work. One reason, I suspect, is that I get away with it. Late to physician appointments, I find the guy is running behind time amd they pass out free viagra samples to while the time away. Late to catch a plane, the damned thing aborts take off and has to be replaced (with those who don't go somewhere else getting free upgrades). I've decided its better to be lucky than punctual, and in my case I can do about as much about one as the other. It turns out that there are tiny needles of magnetite in everyone's brain, and it is these that allow birds to migrate so accurately. Moving across magnetic lines of force -- that are everywhere -- generates currents which affect our senses of time. Some people -- with abnormally large amounts of magnetite -- always think they're early although they are not and vice versa. So its really not subject to control. You time freaks loosen up. Check your friends' magnetic fields and make allowances. Give them a copy of "Seven Habits of Punctual People" -- or even better, keep a pocket full of candies or kibbles to reward them when they show up on time. It works wonders with dogs who are not ordinarily very punctual.

To: Edwarda who wrote (32933)	3/23/1999 3:14:00 AM
From: PiMac	Respond to of 108807

Hi Edwarda, <<In the past two and a half years, I have discovered another reason for habitual lateness. My main squeeze is always 100% there where ever he is (on top of the ideal time syndrome). His next responsibility is in his awareness but doesn't compel his attention as much as it probably should. [snip] There is always just one more thing that absolutely needs attention before he can leave.>> This is so common a problem, and so overlooked. It took you 2.5, intimate years to notice it. The key word is attention. I see a developing sense that this 'quirk' is actually a form of ADD, perhaps the opposite pole of attention-deficit--attention excess. ADD is considered a child's disorder, and a unipolar disorder. Adult, bipolar ADD is barely at the theoretical construct stage. I'm not introducing a new victimhood, so much as pointing out this is a very normal affliction, that, like anything else normal, can be carried to the extreme and debilitating. Your husband is lucky to have someone who can keep time for two. I like to think the other post was also correct: that you too are lucky when your husband turns his excess attention on you.