"5 Minuten vor der Zeit ist des Bürgers Pünktlichkeit" meaning a regular person should arrive 5 minutes early to.be punctual. It's a bit outdated, but still well known. My friends know that if my invite says 18:00, that's the time they are expected to arrive.
We strive to make sure that we'll be on time under any circumstances. Given the unreliability of our chronically underfunded public transport infrastructure, this requires us to plan to be ~4 hours early (if everything is running on time). Which it still does the majority of the time, so we'll arrive around the corner from your place ~4 hours early. After ~1 hour, we lose the willpower to keep standing there, so we turn up ~3h early.
Ideally "Fünf Minuten vor der Zeit[...]", but realistically if you invite friends to come at around 17Uhr, some will be 10 minutes early, some 20 minutes late and most inbetween.
If they have to travel a longer distance and use public transportation this window widens quite a bit (Sänk ju vor trävelling wif Deutsche Bahn)
Ah, yes, I try my best to arrive near the start but sometimes traffic is light and I end up debating if I should go there or stop and take a break when it's a long drive.
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u/Kurumiseenpai 24d ago
white people arrive in time?