Well...if you were to log all trips and arrival times, you would probably not see this. We tend to remember the times it DIDN'T work right. Depending on the event, I would rather have those extra minutes as a buffer zone and have to kill a few at the end of a trip than to always be rushing or making excuses to make up for not starting early enough.....but that's me.

Note: There ARE, of course, events where arrival time is arbitrary and not crucial....in those cases the only problem is when several people with different ideas of when they want to arrive are traveling together.

I still don't know know what to say about those who invite people for 7, and look shocked when anyone shows up before 7:30...*grin*