I admit it, I'm obnoxious.

I'm one of THOSE people. You know the ones. The ones that make everyone else look bad, or the ones that end up in awkward situations due to their ailment.

That's right.

I'm incessantly and almost chronically early to just about everything. If I planning on meeting a friend for lunch:15 minutes, school meeting:5 minutes, doctors appointment:15 minutes. For anything I need a babysitter for I ask the sitter to be at my house a half hour early (in case they are running late or we get talking before I leave), and if it's a BBQ at a friends house I'm right on time (which most people know is about a half hour early). I plan with the knowledge of about how long it takes to get me and whomever is with me out the door and to the place we are going to with time to spare.

This bugs some people, but most of the people it bugs are those that are chronically late.

Do you know why I'm always early? I really don't think that many people really understand it. It's mostly because I'm trying to be considerate to those that are waiting on me. I consider it a sign of respect. If I'm early to a friends house I usually offer to help with whatever is going on. But I know that not everyone functions this way, in fact, most people don't and I usually don't take it offensively. Especially if I know the person well.

It's when I don't know the person well or I don't see or hear from them often that it becomes a problem.

Really, the same thing goes for people returning my phone calls. I don't really care if they call back or not when I call and leave a message saying something like "Hi, it's just me, just calling to pester you, nothing amazing. You can call me back or not, whatever. Bye". It's when I leave a message like that multiple times and I am never able to get a hold of them that it becomes a problem. I start to think that they really could give a flying goats fart about me or my life when people don't call back.

Or in fact when it goes for a long, long time without them ever calling me. I estimate that I can handle about a 10:1 ratio. I call 10 times, after that I start to think I shouldn't call anymore.

I like to talk. Anyone that knows me knows that I have a high number of words I need to get out a day. Get me going and I could probably talk all day as long as I can get someone to talk back to me! In fact, I call several people a day just to "chit-chat" because, honestly, I need to talk more than other people do. Or... at least that is the way that I figure it. Otherwise more people would be calling me than the other way around... right? Either that or people really don't care for me, but I don't think that is the case. One person I never want to be though, is that person that you say "I have to go" to and they just keep on going... like forever... no fail, you cannot get off the phone with them without feeling like you are being rude. I try really hard not to be that person who you dread getting calls from because you know the rest of your day will go to pot no matter what you do if you even pick up the darn thing when they ring.

Anyhow... ya, I think where I was going with this is that I don't do these things to be annoying. If anything I do them to be just the opposite.