What is with all these people showing up EARLY all of a sudden???
The couple invited to a dinner “around six thirty”: ringing my doorbell at 5:45.
The appraisor: made an appointment for 6 p.m., leaves a note saying “I was here at 4, where were you?”
The church visitor: scheduled for a 10 a.m. vist, shows up at 9:35 a.m.
My mother’s health aide: scheduled for 9 a.m., shows up at 8:15 a.m.
C’mon people! I try very hard to be ready for meetings/dinners/whatever, but I plan on being ready AT THE SCHEDULED TIME not anywhere up to two hours early! :mad:
When you show up that early you screw up my whole schedule. Maybe I need to be assembling the appetizers at the last minute, maybe I still need to run the vac over the living room carpet, maybe I’m struggling with getting other tasks squared away BEFORE I can even think about whatever you’re supposed to be doing for/with me. Like that health aide: she comes to bath my elderly mother and do some other grooming. Fine, I appreciate that. But I have to get up, get to her house, get her up, and get her fed – all that takes time! Last week she’d barely gotten a bite of her breakfast when you showed up. “Running a little early,” you chirped. “I knew you wouldn’t mind.”
Well, dammit, I DO MIND. The next early bird who rings my doorbell is going to get the door shut in her face.
People, if you are running early for an appointment, KILL SOME TIME. Stop for a cup of coffee, park somewhere and listen to the radio, have sex with a random stranger…I don’t care, just don’t show up WAY TOO EARLY.
(Okay, you can show up early at businesses that have waiting rooms. Go ahead, read the ancient magazines. Just don’t do it at people’s homes. )