On Time
Ashlea
So, I still am not used to this whole daylight savings thing! Luckily I knew to turn back my clock this year…
However, I have come up with a solution to my tardiness. When I turned my clocks back, I only turned it back about 45 minutes.
You may question why I did this, but it’s rather clever, actually. This way I intend not to ever be late… I just wish I didn’t know that my clocks are 15 minutes ahead of time!
I can just imagine what’s going to happen… I’ll look at my watch, realize I’m running late, and then think: “Oh, I actually have another 15 minutes” – so, I won’t really hurry… and will end up being very late! oh well, I’ll have to try it out and see what happens.
I hate tardiness, yet it’s one of my flaws. Actually, to be fair to myself, it runs in my genes. My parents are renowned for being late. I was late for school everyday as a child, and it wasn’t actually my fault at all. It became a daily game my father and I would play: Who could be ready and waiting at the door first. It worked for the first week, and then I got bored of being on time, waiting for him, and still being late!
Additionally, I think that, as Lynn is unlike many of the larger universities with their gigantic lecture halls, it is more of a disturbance to other students and the professor when you arrive late. So, I suppose at most other universities you can get away with it…but not at Lynn. If any of my professors or teachers happen to read this, may I recommend you turn your watches back 5 minutes…
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November 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I must admit, I share your problem of being late on occasion.
So, here’s the solution I’ve come up with that tends to work fairly well:
I set my clock ahead, as you did with yours, but I randomly press the “forward” and “backward” buttons for the minute so that I don’t know exactly how early the clock is. It usually hovers somewhere around 8 to 10 minutes early. I highly recommend this technique as you can’t really say to yourself “Well, I’ve really got 15 more minutes,” because you don’t know really how many more minutes you have.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Great idea… I’ll try that! Thanks!