Punctuality has always gotten a bad rep. Fascists are famous for keeping the trains running on schedule. Famously on time people often don’t do the concept any favors, either.
We tend to think of the habitually punctual as oppressively rigid, too uptight to be any fun military-style hard-asses, waking up at 0500 to boil water or organize a toolkit or something. On-time people do not just control freaks with no chill, they’re also the people who get really upset when you’re late, too, making them not just irritatingly punctual but irritatingly smug and tight-laced about it
So Is it possible that caring so much about something that you’d show up not just on time but early is actually, maybe, finally becoming cool? This would be unusual. There’s no such thing as being fashionably on time, after all. No cool thing ever really starts as scheduled, either. Parties begin late. Rock shows are unpredictable.
No anarchist would be caught dead sweating the clock. And even etiquette suggests that hosts of dinner parties should be laid-back enough to wait 20 minutes after the alleged start time to accommodate stragglers.
