FACT: Handlers get frustrated that @JoeBiden is often late.

[demmiblue]

FACT: Handlers get frustrated that @JoeBiden
is often late.

FACT: Because he’s truly interested in what people have to say

Link to tweet

[Claustrum]

1. I think Obama mentioned this exact thing in his talk with Kamala

Obama said that Joe can never keep to his schedule because he stops and talks to everyone.

[demmiblue]

3. Yes, he did. :)

We all know Joe's heart, but it was great to see that interaction between the two regarding him. The ice cream bit made me laugh!

[nykym]

2. Unlike the current squatter in the White House

who can never start anything on time.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. That seems understandable

He's not sitting on the toilet tweeting while watching Fox News. And he will actually be working hard most of the time as President of that I have no doubt

[Bev54]

5. I have a dear friend that is the same way.

I always tell her the start of something is at least 1/2 hour before it is and she is usually on time. They can give more time between events. Work with it, and the frustration level will diminish.

[shrike3]

6. Minor point, but I wish people would keep their noses covered.

I see this all the time. We went to a restaurant in town and haven't been back: the entire staff walked around in masks, with their noses uncovered.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I would leave. I've left places for that and let management know why on my way out.

[shrike3]

21. We have let management know, and it didn't do any good.

In fact, at one place, not long after I talked to the manager he started wearing his mask below his nose.

The only restaurant we go to currently is one that strictly adheres to the guidelines. All the staff is very young and they're wonderful. We've having just about all of our meals at home, though, these days.

[Maru Kitteh]

26. Almost all of our food is made at home too. Same reason. Our favorite local place actually put up

a sign discouraging mask use, and now we'll never go there again. If they go under, I want to make sure they know why though, and that's why I say something, and then leave.

[lagomorph777]

11. Penis-over-the-waistband style. How cute.

[canuckledragger]

18. one of reasons for that might be glasses

I wear them, and when my nose is completely covered it fogs up my glasses and doesn't go away until I uncover my nose again.

[shrike3]

22. I understand that, but none of the restaurant staff in that case wore glasses.

They were just wearing them that way because, that's how they want to do it. One of them told me, "When you wear these for nine hours, you can't breathe." Tell the doctors and nurses who wear full gear.

A friend of mine's mother has COPD, but she manages. She wears a mask religiously; if she feels out of breath, she leaves the premises, waits outside until she feels better, puts the mask back on and goes back in.

[Mister Ed]

27. I saw a good tip about that online.

The tip was to place a rolled-up Kleenex under the mask, across the bridge of your nose. Keeps your exhalations from being directed upward and onto your glasses.

[Gothmog]

7. I miss having a real POTUS

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Trump is also frequently late.

But I get a sense it's because he's constantly yelling at his handlers about whatever the current mess of the day for him is.

[JI7]

29. Trump is late on purpose. It's about displaying power over others and making an entrance

HE is the loser that needs to do these things to feel better about himself.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Doesn't tell his crowds he's glad when he can "get the hell out of here"

Loving Biden more and more every day.

[Liberal In Texas]

12. Trump is always late, never seen him show up on time. But it's for diffeent reasons than Biden's.

Joe is talking to people. Deadbeat Donnie is just being passive aggressive. Psychology today:

"...being late, especially egregiously or repeatedly late, sends out the message, “I am more important than you”. Of course, one can, and often does, send out a message without it being true—indeed, precisely because it isn't true. Thus, a person may be late because he feels inferior or unimportant, and being late is a way for him to impose himself on a situation, attract maximal attention, and even take control of proceedings."

[demmiblue]

13. Yep. +1

[AZ8theist]

16. Wasn't Putin 45 minutes late to the Helsinki meeting with Traitor Trump?

[mysteryowl]

14. I would be okay with him working on improving this.

[dsc]

15. Clinton was horrific about being late back in the day

and for the same reason. The only Democratic president I don't recall getting dinged for lateness was Carter.

[True Blue American]

17. I was just thinking the same thing!

[sarcasmo]

19. When Joe Biden makes The Queen wait then we can talk..

[judesedit]

20. I love that about Biden. That's what made me love my doctor, too

I didn't mind waiting as long as I had to in the waiting room, because I knew the doctor was listening to her prior patient, just as she always listened to me. Never rushing them out for the next appointment. Go Joe and Kamala!

[yaesu]

23. Teddy Roosevelt was also known for this, and other great presidents. nt

[Sugarcoated]

24. Exemplery human being

So much empathy, so much heart

[demmiblue]

25. The Bidens meet with victims families at the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Link to tweet

Trump and Pence hightailed it out of the ceremonies for this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214059433

[DFW]

28. Must be a Democratic affliction

This is going back around 25 years ago.

After missing meeting my parents at Gridiron, Hillary invited them to the White House for a 5 minute chat just to make up for it. After the five minutes were up, an aide popped in to remind her that she was supposed to do something else. She told the aide to push everything back for half an hour because she was "having a delightful time with these people."

Now, my parents WERE kinda cool, but for FLOTUS to push back her day's schedule half an hour for them was still something special.