In the British Parliament's House of Lords member Lord Bates was tardy. Disgracefully, he resigned and walked out. He said he held himself to a higher standard than that.
The prime minister had to coach him back.
That reminds me of me the one time I was late.
When I worked at the Atlanta Post Office in the time keepers' office. Regardless of the weather, I was always at least thirty minutes early.
Occasionally someone would ask me how come I was always early. I always replied, "What if there was a wreck or something with traffic backed up?"
And one time that is exactly what happened, a wreck. Two lanes of traffic was blocked plus gawkers slowed my commute down. I hit the time clock 5 minutes late.
The head of the data collection center (time keeping) wrote me up. Although, legally employees had a 5 minute leeway to prevent congestion at the time clocks, he wrote me up and made a big deal out of it.
I asked him why, because some my coworkers were always running in 10 to 20 minutes late, complaining about the traffic.
He said, "I expect more from YOU!"
Which was a racist statement. He and I were the only whites that worked in the office on that shift.
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