Event Start Time = "Start late, or when we feel like it".

[mjr]

I don't know why this bugs me, but it does.

If I go to an event, and it's supposed to start at say, 10 AM, that doesn't mean start at 10:05 or 10:10. It means start at 10AM.

I don't know why this bugs me.

My son has library events on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the summer. They're supposed to start at 10AM. They never do. Because there are always last minute stragglers. So they never really start until 10:10 or 10:15. I get that sometimes people are late to things. But this is every...friggin...time...

Don't you think that's a bit inconsiderate to those who do make the effort to get there on time?

Now I know with some events it can't be helped. But this seems to be an "every time" thing.

I don't even go to these events. But I've seen this happen enough in my life that for some reason (and I don't know why) it bugs me.

Maybe it was pressed upon me when I was growing up to be, you know, on time for things. And at one point I actually thought to myself, "If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late."

It's one of the reasons I get to the local High School football games as early as I do.

I've even been to concerts that did this. "8PM Start!" and the band doesn't take the stage until 8:15 or 8:30.

WHY does this bother me so much!?

[Pixelated]

Public (and private) events should not be held up for those who can't be bothered to show up on time (again, sometimes there are unexpected happenings and thus the lateness is not the latecomer's fault. I get that.)

And I'm sorry to penalize the kids because I'm assuming it's the parents who can't get them to the event on time. But again, that does not justify forcing the kids who DO get there on time to wait. The event should start at 10:00. Kids who come in late, well, I'm sorry, but you've missed part of the event. And if the parents complain, they need it pointed out to them that if they do not wish their child to miss part of the event, they must get the child to the library on time.

I once went to a hairdresser who told me she had one customer who was always late ... and we're not talking 10 or 15 minutes, we're talking an hour or two. And then the SC would expect to be shoehorned in, thus causing customers who were on time to wait. She seemed reluctant to "offend" the SC. I asked why it was preferable to offend two or three or four customers who took the trouble to get there on time. Never did hear the outcome, but frankly, I wouldn't have let that pass even the first time, never mind repeatedly.

[csquared]

Try walking into the Opera late. You get to sit out the first act.

There are times for exception. I heard a story once. I believe it was a Billy Joel concert. About 15 minutes after the show was scheduled to start (concerts ALWAYS start late), billy walks out on stage without his band. After the applause dies down, he asks for the house lights to be brought up. The venue is only half full. He says that it was suppose to be a sold out show. He has heard that there was an accident near the venue blocking traffic. He wants to delay the start to give people a chance to make it.

Personally, I think it was classy.

Otherwise, start on time.

[Monterey Jack]

As an avid moviegoer, it always pisses me off that a matinee showing that's scheduled to start at, say, 11:00 AM will not start showing the actual movie until at least 11:10, or 11:15, due to all of the goddamn ads and trailers. I would honestly pay a few more bucks per showing if it meant that the movie started promptly at the time advertised online. Hey, this movie is already over two hours, don't tack on an additional fifteen+ minutes and delay my post-movie pee any longer than necessary.