on time is like, are your shirt & pants coordinated.

[neugotik]

being on time is like dressing nice. it's what, 80% impression, 20% application.

(usually it's like, show up on time to wait- I really don't buy the "respect is being on time" nor the other arguments - but I do see the whole "it's an impression - what you think of others/what they think of you") I don't want to degrade those who value

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let me edit that first version down.

[neugotik]

Let me rewrite my response: the first was too long to be a good counter in a debate.

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I'd argue: it's still impression on you, not my respect for you.

If I have no respect for Edward at all (for whatever reasons) I might still always be on time when I meet him. He might mistakenly think I respect him: but I don't. I've made a good impression. I don't respect him.

Meanwhile maybe I really admire & respect Fiona I think the world of her, her accomplishments & work, etc.... - I might still be late.
My tardiness while rude and a bad impression probably tarnishes my impression on her: I still think the world of her & respect her. (she might lose respect for me though my respect for her is still through the roof).

Respect is internal - timeliness is external. I think people try to use the timliness to see if someone respects them, but it's a false-gauge: it will never really tell you if they respect or disprect you.

& on trust - to timliness I can see a partial relation.

[neugotik]

However I can agree w/your bonus points argument: trust might be a corrolating data-point. If you say you'll do something & don't - that's trust - if you say a time & aren't there, you've not kept your trust. But - they might be extremely trustworthy in other areas (such as say, keeping your secret confidences completely quiet & paying back loaned money or books, so on..) So since "trust" is such a lot of different things _ some corrolate to timliness & some are (I believe) unrelated