the trouble with being......... on time

you can never really be on time.
it's a fact.
whenever you organise to meet up with someone, you are either going to be early or you are going to be late. The question is on what side of the meeting time you will end up on.
With this in mind, what then is the point of stressing about being early or late?
Isn't this line of thinking then about not inconveniencing the other people instead? After all, usually, if you set a meeting place at a certain time, chances are that place was chosen because it is the most easily accessible to all and not of equal distance/difficulty to get to.

And let's be honest here, being on time is never good enough anyway. Fact is, people would like everyone else to be early so that the evening isn't held up uneccessarily. In that case, why not decide to meet later? Yes sometimes that just isn't possible because of different schedules but in the instances that can be worked around, why not meet with an hour to spare so that
i) those that are not far from meeting point can sit and have a coffee
ii) gives the late people a bigger margin to work in.
that should also remove the occurance of people being late because instead of having a single meeting time, you have a meeting period.

How about the fact that some people will always turn up much earlier than everyone else. Their extra prudence in the time department has meant that they will have to wait much longer than everyone else, especially if there are usually late people. The on-timers of the more sensitive persuasion are now going to be of the mind that they themselves were also late.

Here's where I try and convince you that most of the time I try to be on time. I also have to explain that I am not very good at it. It's not that I don't care if I'm late, it's more that my sense of timing is just crap not to mention that I am seemingly the greatest victim of Sod's Law (see here).
Let's say I have to drive into London. Now I know that the journey takes maybe 45 mins to do casually. Add 15 mins for possible traffic lights and parking issues and an hour is perfectly reasonable in my mind. In fact, I've done the journey in half an hour during rush hour no less so I know an hour is enough time. Sod's Law dictates that when i really need to make a good impression, everything will go out of their way, to get into mine. They decide to close down two of the three lanes of the A13 going into London. They also decide to close one lane of the Blackwall Tunnel to make sure that the tail back from the A12/A14/A406 junction is as long as possible. IT would probably also decide to rain causing more delays and finally, on that day, they'll also want to suspend all of the parking bays in the entire area of where I usually park.
So was I wrong to aim to get there on time?
Should I have allowed extra extra time for, in insurers' terms, "Natural Disasters".
On time doesn't work.
Better aim to be early....