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  I agree. When I lived in South Florida, that chronic tardiness from everyone was very hard to get used to. Down there, being 20-30 minutes late is expected and accepted behavior. Doesn’t even matter if it’s a doctor’s appointment or a family get together. People are even late to job interviews down there 😬. Some call it “Miami Time” or “Cuban Standard Time” or “Livin’ la vida time”… it always annoyed me.
  Moved back to Ohio and it’s delightful how ridiculously punctual midwesterners are. And they call or text when there’s traffic.
context: What I don’t understand is that for people who are chronically late, they know they are always late.  Why then are they still too selfish to make the adjustment in their schedule?  You have a scheduled appointment at 2, so why not make it 1:30 in your calendar??!   
  And then they (maybe) apologize ?? If you were actually sorry you’d change the behavior.