Be on time!

I'm a theatrical actor, so frequently I am in plays. I was recently in a very small town play in South Italy. People in Southern Italy are usually very kind and generous but there are some problems. For example, My plays are frequently at 9 p.m. We usually have to wait for about 15 minutes because people always tend to come late. In the play mentioned above, my show was about astrophysics in the evening. In the afternoon before my show, there was an astronaut who spoke about his ISS station experience. He was very interesting and his show finished very late. Therefore, my show was rescheduled to 9:30 p.m. I had to wait for 2 hours until finally at 9:30 the place was open for my show. The organizer asked me to wait to start until more people came. So I waited. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, twenty-five minutes. Even at 10:00 p.m some people were still arriving! I thought: if my show had started on time, those people would have arrived in the middle of the story! I think this is a horrible Italian habit: I hate starting late because I think It's disrespectful towards other people. The World doesn't revolve around individual people or plays, we are all here together and we have to respect each other. It's important and respectful to be on time.