Why being late symbolizes the worst in humanity

Shounak Bagchi
6 min readOct 10, 2018
Who cares if I’m late? RIght? Wrong

The fashionable habit of our time is lateness — the act of being chronically dilatory. Unpunctuality is as ubiquitous of modern day socializing as the mimosa you’re eager to drink while you patiently wait for your friend to arrive to brunch.

The irony of writing about being late is that it is well past time when writers started expressing their dismay about the tardiness epidemic…

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Shounak Bagchi

Founder of Honest Wednesdays and pragmatic optimist.