PUNCTUALITY This is a very touchy subject, but one that I think needs to be addressed. It was funny on Saturday morning watching Peter walk through the doors for practice, and then talking to him afterwards about this issue. At what point did society come to accept that being late is acceptable? Now. as I work through this I do understand that traffic and school have a direct effect on parent’s schedules, so this is directed toward those AM swimmers (including Saturday) who arrive late and then have no urgency to get started, or the ones who are there but decide that since practice starts at 6:30, that is the time they should start to get ready. As Peter said this morning when I said he was “GRUMPY” , "I was not grumpy when I walked into the building, but swimmers who are sitting around in sweats when it is time to be in the water make me grumpy." Peter hit it right on the nail , because the last two examples of swimmers from above are the ones who drive