It is a sign of conscious or unconscious disrespect for the time of others. "You can wait for me, because I am more important." I have waited an hour for people from some cultures, just to let me know how important they were..😷

Sure. Because that's what the problem is. Leaving earlier.

Look, I'm not one of them, but people who are chronically late have an actual problem with temporal perception. My dad is one of them, and it's so weird to watch. His perception of 5 minutes is so warped that he thinks I can go down to the post office and the pharmacy and back in that amount of time.

Or maybe his brain just literally doesn't clock how much time has passed, and only goes from moment to moment.

I like to give others a head start. It’s called generosity.

I ask this question myself, but it does not change anything of the habitual late person.

They procrastinate because they don’t want to go. They seek attention for being late. They handle their anxiety by making their arrival time optional.

Sorry. I was going to answer this, but I had to leave early for my next question or I would be late.

I am never late. In fact most of the time I'm early

Cause they fart around and don't plan ahead.
My sister is like this.
I will tell her the time to be somewhere is a half an hourly earlier.

I do leave earlier. Time just fast-forwards when I’m not looking. 😐

It's good to be late

Their perception of time is slower. I am always early. I have a friend who is always late. He will try to cram 10 things in a small time period and wonder why it all goes to shit.

I don't respect other people enough

Because they’re procrastinators?

I like to go to bed late and enjoy life