Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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‘Vox’ spoke to three experts about the difference between being fashionably late and being rude. An etiquette expert said that you get a 15-minute buffer for casual events and five minutes for everything else, a lateness researcher said that it can really depend on the cultural norms of the person you’re waiting on and interior designer Bobby Berk said you should just always be punctual. Where do you draw the line?

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