My mom always has to be super early to everything

[Drummer Ben]

It's so annoying. If we have to be somewhere at let's say 6 she'll start freaking out at 4 that it's almost time to go. I'm the complete opposite. I leave to go somewhere at the last second. It annoying that she makes such a huge event out of everything. No you can't just go to the convenient store, you have to put it into your schedule, take an hour to prepare. I hate scedules, it's annoying when people live by them. I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 10 minutes let alone tomorrow. I live for today!

[Emerald Dream]

I can really see both sides of this. I agree that getting ready to go somewhere two hours early may be a bit of overkill. However, personally - I have a serious discomfort with even the thought of being late. Anytime, anywhere. I often say that I would rather be an hour early than one minute late. I guess it's some sort of compulsion, or wired-in part of her personality. Two hours is a bit extreme though, even for me.

[Body odah Man]

It's good to be early and concerned about making appointments but what your mom does sounds extreme. Sadly it sounds like a compulsion and those are hard to break.

[SethfromMI]

2 hours early may suggest some type of compulsion issue which she may want to talk about with a psychologist. however, I hate being late, so I would rather be early then late

[fairmaiden]

If you have an event or whatever that starts at 6pm, tell her it starts at 7pm. So she'll tell you to leave the house at 5pm, which is perfectly reasonable as traffic is unpredictable.

I'd rather be 2 hours early to something than 2 hours late, so don't worry too much about it.

[sunnieseason]

That's really tough. I'm sorry to hear that. Does she use her phone to tell time? If she has a watch maybe you can set it an hour slower s she won't freak out until it's really time to go.

[richiex]

omg, my mom needs to be the first to arrive for everything

[Excalibur]

Sorry mate, that's pretty frustrating, I know. But my family is basically the opposite, we're always late to everything, no matter how early we start getting ready. She may have been brought up in a household that's always late, like mine, so she wants to really change that and make that not the case. I mean, being early is probably better than being late. I wouldn't be too hard on your mom, she's probably just doing what she thinks is the best for you. Good luck, mate.