He says he habitually arrives for an early service in case it is cancelled.
Until he died, earlier this month, at the age of ninety-four, the oldest regular was Hank Turner, a trumpet player and former bandleader, who once fired Charlie Parker for habitually arriving late for rehearsals.
If you are the sort of person who, when catching a train, needs to arrive at the station with time to spare, you will cook in a very different way from someone who habitually boards the train while it is inching away.
That early success, and Torre's popularity among players, reporters and fans, made him all but bulletproof, even to an owner who habitually changed managers before Torre arrived.
"I said, 'Jimmy, if you don't slow down, you won't have a mother, a car or a flight.' " But Mr. Murphy, a 30-year-old account manager at Thomson Financial who was habitually late for everything, was coolly confident, arriving at the airport with six minutes to spare.
They had habitually left the door to the hallway open, but after Thomas arrived they kept it closed, so as to avoid eye contact with him when he walked the halls.
"They habitually miss important votes on key policy initiatives and legislation by arriving late on the first day back for votes and leaving early on the last day of the week, oftentimes to attend fundraising events and campaign events," Boustany said.
Zurich cantonal police arrived at the Baur au Lac hotel, where senior Fifa executives habitually gather on their trips to Zurich for committee meetings, shortly before 6am.
