History Main / PunctualityIsForPeasants

-->'''Music/{{Beck}}:''' Come on, move it! We have to get to the concert and make the audience wait for it to start.

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* As recounted in ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'', Creator/TommyWiseau routinely arrived three to four hours late to direct ''Film/TheRoom''. He typically goes to bed around six or seven in the morning and awakes at three or four in the afternoon, yet he insisted on morning shoots.

--> '''Romona''': Well... you assumed wrong.

* ''Film/SpiceWorld'': Music/TheSpiceGirls keep the whole world waiting for their first ever live performance at the Albert Hall, mostly because they want to keep their friend Nicola company while she gives birth, and partly to spite their manager, with whom they had a row the day before.
-->'''Geri:''' (on the phone to the manager) I don't know what time we're going to be there! Look, the world can wait, this is more important! It's about friendship and commitment, but you wouldn't know about that!
* The novelization of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' reveals that Jerjerrod (the commander of the second Death Star) is an arrogant bully who wholeheartedly subscribes to this school of thought. As he sees it, important people, such as himself, don't hurry for others, other people hurry for them. However Jerjerrod does have enough common sense to know that the meeting with Darth Vader from near the start of the film is something he needs to be on time for, even if he tries to appear unconcerned and unhurried. When Vader announces that the Emperor will be coming to the station, however, Jerjerrod basically decides to temporarily ditch the attitude; there are times when even very important men have to hurry, and trying to make sure he doesn't disappoint [[BadBoss The Emperor]] is one of them.

* Played for laughs in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries 2: Royal Engagement'', when someone suggests that Queen Clarisse might be late. She assures them that "A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early."

* In ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd: Mega City 2 - City of Courts'', when Dredd tries to meet with MC2's Chief Judge Kennedy, he's told that Kennedy is running late, and will continue to be running late until Dredd's watched the MC2 Justice Department corporate video.

* Creator/DaveBarry mentions this in ''Dave Barry Turns 40'', describing what going to a Music/TheRollingStones concert was like in the 60's - they'd wait for hours, and then finally someone would come up on stage and explain that the band was still stuck at the airport in New Zealand.

** In "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E4SenseAndSenility Sense and Senility]" in ''Blackadder The Third'', Blackadder deliberately keeps a pair of pompous actors waiting outside and beating on the door to give the Prince acting lessons. When he finally lets them in, he says they should have knocked. Later he has them thrown in prison. The same actors, having said earlier "never upset the punters", change their tune to "sod the proles" when they are invited to the palace.

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' When you get A Polite Invitation to a high-society party, you have the option to arrive "fashionably late" to make even more of an impact when you deign show up. It ''can'' work, and has its own justifications (your time is a valuable resource when you get a trickle of an action every ten minutes), but you need to be charismatic enough to make it work.

* Creator/DaveBarry mentions this in ''Dave Barry Turns 40'', describing what going to a Music/TheRollingStones concert was like in the 60's - they'd wait for hours, and then finally someone would come up on stage and explain that the band was still stuck at the airport [[UpToEleven in New Zealand]].

* Creator/MarilynMonroe was infamous for this. While making ''Film/ThePrinceAndTheShowgirl'', Creator/LaurenceOlivier chastised her for it by saying, "Just once, I'd wish you'd get here on time, for the love of fuck". To which she replied, "Oh, you have that word in England?"