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The only crime where the punishment is everyone doing the math on how little they respect you.
means The state of arriving or occurring after the expected or scheduled time.
from Built straightforwardly from the adjective 'late' plus the suffix '-ness,' which turns a quality into an abstract noun. 'Late' itself traces back to Old English 'læt,' meaning slow or sluggish, related to Old Norse and Germanic forms carrying the same sense of delay — so the word has been quietly accusing people of dragging their feet for well over a thousand years.
- precise honesty
- fifteen minutes late is just rounding, apparently
- power move theory
- making people wait signals status, not chaos
- universal excuse
- traffic gets blamed more than it deserves
- cultural relativity
- fashionably late exists, fashionably early never does