Growing up our family had a Puerto Rican family as neighbors that we'd sometimes invite over for dinner

If we said 6:00 PM it wouldn't be uncommon for them to show up at around 7 or even later

And it's not like they had to travel far, they were in the same neighborhood

It's just that's custom for them not to show up exactly on time as it would infer that they're too eager

The best way it was explained to me is that when you're buying a car you don't jump at the first price offered to you so as to not appear eager, even if it's a good price, but rather play it cool and bargain for a better price

Same thing applies in most other cultures

People from Spain are known to not eat dinner until like 10 or 11 PM

Some countries they actually go home from work for lunch and a come back to work a couple of hours later and customers just have to wait until they're back

So they're used to things not starting on the time it's "supposed" to start but rather give an hour or two leeway

It's only here and in some other countries that if you're even 5 minutes past then you're considered "late" and it's a huge deal

Interesting

lol@white person thing

son you ever been around small villages in Germany? Have you traveled at all boy ?

BRB....store owner leaves at 1130am, sign says BRB, he stumbles in at 3:15 drunk