Time

You turn up , you look around but no one is here . Baseball , basketball , massage classes , appointments even at Emma’s work . It’s last minute and not before . Self doubt starts to tick away . Have I got the right address ? Did I not check the details properly ( I’m the grand champ for that ) . Fuck , I’ve totally ballsed the times up . Then , not 1 minute before time , one car turns up , followed by another and then it’s practically ‘rent a crowd ‘ . Mass arrival occurs , spilling into what I’d call …late . It’s the way it tends to work over here . Fashionably late is being on time and getting there early is , well …. it doesn’t happen . Call it time management , LAs hideous traffic or just plain lazy , but don’t waste your time coming early or even on time , come 5 minutes after and no one will even notice .