Minutes of Charming
I hit on a new measure of a person’s charm and social grace the other day as I was running late to a client meeting- Minutes.
How charming and pleasant a person is can be measured by the number of minutes late they can be for a meeting and still convince you to forgive them.
I always figured I was about 15 minutes of charming- I’m pleasant, I’ve got the little-and-cute-girl thing going for me, and I’m pretty funny.
Tuesday, I was 20 minutes late for a meeting, but the client forgave me anyway. Clearly going to that meeting on how to thrive at networking events paid off in an extra 5 minutes of charm.
December 23rd, 2005 at 9:15 pm
I would love to see a study done on that, because there have got to be gender differences. My boss was telling me of another candidate for my job — the guy was late (10 mins) to the first interview (but he was still in the running), and he showed up late for the second one. He declared that after 15 minutes, he called the guy to tell him not to bother. And then I got the job offer (I got to the parking lot 15 minutes early and strolled in all calm and collected and stuff) — thanks to that guy for not being “charmingly” late!!!