2022年11月23日发(作者：生活方式)hy did the young girl miss the train?
[00:13.24]Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilized society.
[00:19.00]Without it,nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion;everything would be in a state of chaos.
[00:25.39]Only in a sparly-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
[00:31.34]In ordinary living,there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.
[00:36.13]The intellectual,who is working on some abstru problem,
[00:39.99]has everything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand.
[00:44.52]He is therefore forgiven if late for a dinner party.
[00:48.34]But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
[00:54.20]It is hard for energetic,quick-minded people to waste time,
[00:58.02]so they are often tempted to finish a job before tting out to keep an appointment.
[01:03.21]If no accidents occur on the way,like punctured tyres,diversions of traffic,sudden descent of fog,they will be on time.
[01:12.16]They are often more industrious,uful citizens than tho who are never late.
[01:17.58]The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others as the unpunctual.
[01:22.90]The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance.
[01:28.75]Some friends of my family had this irritating habit.
[01:32.20]The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.
[01:37.92]Then they arrived just when we wanted them.
[01:41.21]If you are catching a train,it is always better to be comfortably early
[01:45.36]than even a fraction of a minute too late.
[01:48.59]Although being early may mean wasting a little time,
[01:51.83]this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one;
[01:57.42]and you avoid the frustration
[01:59.23]of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.
[02:05.97]An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to e it go off without you.
[02:13.71]Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.
[02:19.40]She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due,
[02:23.97]since her parents had impresd upon her
[02:26.23]that it would be unforgiva -ble to miss it and cau the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her.
[02:33.54]She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket.
[02:36.71]To her horror he said that she was two hours too soon.
[02:41.05]She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper
[02:43.50]on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter.
[02:48.55]He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper
[02:52.51]and that it did stop,but only to take on mail,not pasngers.
[02:57.35]The girl asked to e
