# Why are you always late?

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**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-always-late/942631 "2021-05-21T16:28:43Z")\
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In reviewing this thread, I am reminded of the thread we had last year on “[whiteness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteness-chart-at-the-smithsoniam-museum/915636)” and in particular how one of the most contentious issues (the middle third of the thread or so) seemed to be on how bonkers (some people thought) it was that other people and maybe even cultures don’t, as a matter of course, consider punctuality to be a preeminent virtue.

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