Getting Mary’s chronic lateness off my chest

I must admit that I was not a fan of Mary in Seasons 1-4 and didn’t anticipate enjoying her ascension back to the main cast this season. I haven’t forgotten her legendary misbehavior, including but not limited to the questionable activities of her church, her racist comments, and her disdain for pretty much everyone who wasn’t her in the first few seasons. But she’s really shown up this season, making it easier than I expected for me to compartmentalize her past behavior and just enjoy her now.

HOWEVER. Her defenses of her perpetual lateness are completely insane. In one of the after shows, she talks about being late to meet Meredith in Park City and defends herself by saying she lives in SLC, and even if she leaves “on time,” it takes so long to get to Park City that she’s late every time.

Please, can someone with a more sophisticated sense of time explain this to me? When I have to go someplace, I look at what time I need to arrive, figure out how long it will take to get there, and plan to leave with at least that much time, if not more, for travel. To put a finer point on it, I’m going to a wedding tomorrow. I need to be there by like 2:50 PM at the latest because it starts at 3. If it takes an hour to get from home to the wedding venue, I will leave at least an hour before 2:50 PM—like 1:50 PM.

I may wish I could leave at 2:30 to get to the wedding site by 2:50, but I am aware that physics prohibit me from achieving that. When Mary talks about her lateness, I get the sense that she’s leaving at 2:30 no matter where she’s going and simply hoping she can defy time and space to arrive on time, even if it’s in defiance of the space-time continuum.

Am I missing something here? Are you all getting this impression too? Why aren’t we talking about it? Is it just because there’s so much else to talk about?