1001-1005: The "I'm Late, I'm Late" Solution, 1006-1010: The "I'm Not Late, I'm On Time" Solution, 1011-1015: The "We're All Late" Solution
This solution involves apologizing profusely for being late, while simultaneously blaming everything else in your life for the delay. It's a classic.
In this approach, you arrive precisely at the scheduled start time, but only after stopping for a brief, "necessary" coffee break, and then again for a "quick" bathroom break, and finally for a "just one more minute" power nap.
This solution requires a group effort, where everyone is late, and thus no one is really late. It's a beautiful, if somewhat dysfunctional, solution.