On Sat, 7 May 2016 23:05:05 +0100, Steve Walker
wrote:

snip classic stories

Now you can argue that I was wrong to speed, but in both cases, I had
allowed enough time for the journey, with a stop and with sopme spare
time, but outside events sabotaged our plans. In both cases, there were
good reasons not to miss the deadline. Real life is like that and we
can't all take an extra day off work and travel a day early, just in
case there is a delay.

My company were kind enough to move to the top of our road s and
because I was a 'Field support tech', had to drive my company car in
every day (even if I rarely went on site towards the end).

Now, on a good day my total commute took about 2 minutes so I would
leave at 5 to 9 to be there 'on time'. However, if we got caught up
behind the dustcart that 2 minutes could lengthen to maybe 10 minutes
and if there was some other issue (fire engine in the road) then it
could be even longer (making me 'late').

Those who regularly drove in over longer distances would typically
allow the same amount of 'extra' time but it would be a smaller
percentage of their overall traveling time than me.

It was good to have an hour for lunch and actually have (the option
of) 55 minutes at home. ;-)

Cheers, T i m