[learnstats2]

When people make this lie, what they are really saying is: "Stop whatever you are doing and be ready and waiting for when I finally arrive".

The negative consequences fall on the person receiving the lie. It's not a courtesy. It has long-term consequences to your credibility and trustworthiness.

It is far better to tell the truth in this case.

[amerkhalid]

Tardiness/lack of understanding of time is actually a huge problem in our culture . Most of us take it by default that other person would be at least an hour late. So we usually give an hour earlier than intended time when hosting a party or something. (We usually give actual time to our Western friends).

However, this creates problem for people who actually show up on the given time. Now you have guests in the house to entertain while at the same time make preparations for the party. It also embarrassing for guest to arrive on time only to find out that they are early.

Sometimes when we really want to convey be timeliness, we say something like 5PM American Time not Desi Time. But I really wish we don't have to do this.

[copperx]

Would "5PM sharp" do it?

[amerkhalid]

We use "5PM sharp" or its equivalent in Urdu or Hindi but usually it doesn't mean much.

When we want people to be on time and don't want to assume that they will be late, we usually say a little more or give a reason (like we made reservations etc).

[Squarel]

The truth would be "I have no clue how long it will take me to get there"

[learnstats2]

"I just passed landmark X and I'm on foot" is often more helpful.

[corobo]

Or maybe "Here's my GPS coords and current speed". Facebook Messenger should add direction and speed information!

[smokinn]

Glympse does this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.an...

[spacemanmatt]

Does it still suck raw eggs? I wanted that functionality but found Glympse too horrible to use at the time, a while back.

[simplemath]

Works fine for me, with the caveat of using it inside vzn's message+

[mc808]

It would also be helpful if they could notify the recipient when my digestive system is below 10% capacity, so they would know that I'm likely to stop for a bite to eat (and maybe suggest a good restaurant nearby if Facebook hasn't done so already).