1. You're never in the awkward position of being the first to arrive.
2. Because you are honest enough to admit that NO PARTY EVER STARTS WHEN IT SAYS IT WILL.
3. THEREFORE, in many cases you are actually doing the more polite thing.
4. And if a party runs out of beer or snacks, you can easily pick some up your way (and then get first dibs).
5. Being late lets you receive a warning in time to avoid a cringe-inducing situation.
6. One the one hand, you can seem very busy and important...
This Facebook poke war won't just conduct itself, you know.
7. ...Or, alternately, pretty chill about it all.
8. You're considered ~fashionable.~
9. You can make a more dramatic entrance.
10. You never get stuck eating three baskets' worth of bread before dinner because you're bored.
11. ...Or milling around in the extreme heat or cold.
12. Never being early means never having to make small talk about being early.
13. After arriving to appointments on time, you eventually realize you're always going to have to wait an hour... Unless you come late.
14. And being five minutes late to a presentation has literally never been an issue because it takes at least that long for someone to figure out why PowerPoint won't work.
15. You're more likely to know people at an event if all your friends arrive first. ;)
And, finally...
16. If you're the last to show up, you're never going to be The First One To Awkardly Leave.
