25#4 on time

10 mins. Acceptable and without a single question.

Yea, 10 mins later than the agreed time is totally acceptable to athens.
If you are later than 10 mins, seriously athens wouldn't be angry.
If she is she will tell you.
She would just wonder, what's wrong with you?

Couldn't you wake up earlier?
Couldn't you prepare faster?
Couldn't you walk faster?
Couldn't you allocate time for expected traffic jams, train delays, mum's delay etc?
Couldn't you respect people's time?

Couldn't you inform athens that you will be late HALF an hour before athens starts to depart from her house?

Unfortunately athens lives in Malaysia.
She waits for busses, trains, friends and meetings to start.

She used not to be on time.
She would arrive 10 mins before time.
She slowly learns.
She arrives on time.
She waits.

Fifteen minutes
Half an hour.
One hour.

One thing she doesn't know how to do, is to arrive late.
She tells herself a million of times, please do not go on time, you know they will surely be late for at least half an hour.
But she just couldn't do it.
Mom's good training.

Sigh.