Have you heard the one about the engineer? At work, an engineer was offered a course about time management, but he was too busy to go. Ha-ha-ha.
Seriously, though, I have always believed that engineers were punctual by definition and regarded time as an important engineering concept - but do they?
Well, it depends. Punctuality, it appears, can be conditional on a number of factors, including where you live, for, believe it or not, there are a number of places on our guilty Earth where being on time is much easier said than done. As a punctual person myself, I’ve been meticulously collecting such time-defying (and time-deviant!) places for many years and have managed to visit several of them too. Let me introduce you to some, starting with Australia, where many of our readers are based and where I lived and worked as a senior writer for the Age newspaper some years ago.
My job involved a good deal of travel around that amazing continent-size country spanning...