In echo of your words, for the last few years, people I&#x27;ve been meeting in the pub have sometimes turned up late, sometimes really quite late indeed, and they always complained that they couldn&#x27;t call me to tell me. I would point out that they would generally have called too late for me to delay, being on my way to the pub already (or even already there), but there was a weird belief that telling me they were late made it better, somehow.<p>Except this year. For example, the last time I went to the pub (a week ago) the other party got there bang on time, to the minute, having apparently freaked out at his other half and made absolutely sure that she&#x27;d give him a ride to the pub in time, because he knew there was no way to contact me. Now that I&#x27;m known for not being contactable, people actually start planning around it and make an effort to be on time.