What’s been happening lately

With regard to “My Punctuality Is Killing Me” (Dec. 4), I think I can top Paul Brownfield’s stories of excuses for tardiness. Today at my health club, our aerobics instructor arrived at class 15 minutes late and told the assembled 12 women that she was late because “she got caught in a line at Coffee Bean.” When some of us incredulously if she thought that was a legitimate excuse, she answered obliviously that, yes, she really was caught in a line. We tried to tell her that perhaps she could teach the class without her giant latte, but it seemed to go over her head.

Dina Cramer

Manhattan Beach

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I think Brownfield left out of his article the worst situation of all, that of waiting in a doctor’s office for a half-hour to an hour after rushing to come on time. Gersten Schachne

Northridge