CP Time : Why Some People Are Always Late

by King, JL

• ISBN13: 9781593091088
• ISBN10: 1593091087
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-20
• Publisher: Strebor Books

Summary

The bestselling author of "On the Down Low" takes readers on a hilarious and eye-opening journey exploring the origins and implications of Rcolored people's time.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What is CP Time?

CP Time Social

CP Time at Funerals

Open Up The Casket Reasons People Have Used On Why They Were Late For A Funeral

CP Time at Weddings

Where Is The Bride??????

A Mother'S Story

A Groom'S Story Other Reasons I'Ve Heard From People

When Asked If They Had Been Late For A Wedding

CP Time on the Job

There Are Some Careers You Should Never Pursue...

Top 20 Reasons People Use When They Are Late For Work! Attendance

CP Time and Church

CP Time and Family

Love/Relationships

CP Time -- Is It Just a Black Thing?

CP Time in Today's Society of Fast Technology

What If -- Scenarios

List Of The Worst Excuses Used

CP Time: Just Call

Cp Time: Stories Conclusion

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Excerpts

WHAT IS CP TIME?

In this section I will explore time,in the beginning,and the impact of God, or how a higher power in your life can make being late a lifesaver or life-changing event.

When I began working on this book, I posed the questions to a very close friend, "What is the meaning of time? Who came up with the word 'time,' and is time defined the same by everyone?"

To find answers I logged on to one of the web search engines and typed in the wordtime.I got hundreds of links, and had many ways to get as much information about time that my brain could conceive. You can find anything you want about time: What is the meaning of time? What is the concept of time? What is time management? Who invented time? What does the word "time" mean? How does time work? Universal time, time quotes, and does time really exist, were just a few of the search engines that I discovered about time.

In my research I discovered that the very first clock was a sundial, and that form of time keeping had been used for over five thousand years. The Chaldeans, and Sumerians, in Babylonia, used the first sundials (which was a part of the modern Iraq). That is some deep stuff.

I wondered if the Chaldeans or Sumerians had any brothers or sisters who lived onCP Time.I can visualize it now: it is 500,000 B.C. and the earth is shifting; the glaciers are forming the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains; the chief of the Chaldeans put out a message that the tribe needed to move to higher land, and there is abrotherwho is always late. He oversleeps and misses the evacuation of the village to safer land. When he wakes up, he realizes that because of his always being late, he missed out, and now is about to have his ass frozen for future generations to look at as the well-preserved prehistoric caveman. The one that you heard was discovered in the Antarctic was probably a brother who was late, and ended up getting tracked and frozen. This gives you something to think about...?

As I was doing my research I wondered if since the beginning of mankind, were there people who were always late? That really made writing this chapter really interesting. And I have to admit I learned a great amount of information, which aroused my curiosity further.

But, this book is aboutCP Timeand why some people are always late. However, I wanted to give you a little insight on time. As they say, you don't know where you are going, if you don't know where you've been...and of course knowledge is power. So, now you have been exposed a little about the history of time. Next time you are playing Jeopardy, you might get a couple of points if there is a category about time.

WHAT IS CP TIME?

CP Timehas been defined many different ways as I discovered while writing this book. InHow to Be, A Guide to Contemporary Living for African Americansby Harriette Cole (Simon & Schuster, 2000) she writes:CP Timeis defined as "chronic lateness."

Another book, by Geneva Smitherman,Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner(Mariner Books, 2000), states that CP Time was a reference to the African American concept of time, being in tune with human events, nature, the seasons, and natural rhythms as opposed to being a slave to the clock, which represents artificial, rather then natural, time.

Donald McCullough, a white author who didn't use the termCP Time,wrote inSay Please, Say Thank You(Perigee Books, 1999) that people who are late, may as well be guilty of stealing time. Time is something that cannot be wasted. This author also writes that people who are late have said, in effect that their time is more valuable then your time, and that what you are doing is not as important as what I am doing, and that you do not mind stealing fifteen minutes of my day to squander on your own purposes.

Even the Ms. Emily Post, the etiquette queen of many books on how to live a life being proper, said that people who are late are out and out TACKY (she didn't use that word, but that is what she wanted to say.)

No matter how you define it, it is a behavior that has two sides, the good and the bad. 

CP Time © 2007 by J.L. King.

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