The Reasons for Being Late

張貼日期：May 07, 2010 12:16:14 PM

The Reasons for Being Late

Eva Lai 

    “Why are you late?” It is a common question in senior high school. When you are late, teachers always ask you about this question. But in the college, teachers will not ask you about this question, only your friends will ask. Therefore, more and more students are late for classes. Once I asked my friends about the reasons for being late. The most common reasons I heard were “We overslept,” “We missed the bus” or “We met traffic jams on the way to school.”

    The most frequently reason given by students is oversleepness. They went to bed so late that they couldn’t get up early. For example, my friend Helen had a class at eight o’clock but she went to bed at three o’clock. And she needed to get up at six o’clock to prepare what she needed for the school. However, she couldn’t get up on time. Then she was late. If she had gone to bed early, the problem would not have happened.

    The second reason is missing the bus. It is always related to oversleepness or students’ spending too much time preparing the things they need for school. Once my friend Jessica got up on time but she spent too much time deciding what to wear. So she missed the bus, and she was late. If she had prepared the things well the night before, she would not have had this problem.

    The third reason is to meet a traffic jam on the way to school. It always happens at seven to nine o’clock. All people need to go out for their work or studies, or there is a car accident on the way to school, especially on the Yangde Blvd. Once I went to school by bus. There was a car accident on the way to my school. I waited for one hour before the bus started to move again. However, I was totally late. But this kind of accident is not predictable.

    Reasons for being late can be oversleeping, missing the bus or meeting a traffic jam on the way to school. Those reasons are preventable except the third one. If students go to bed early and prepare the thing they need the night before, the chance of getting late will decrease.