about lost time

We all face a problem when someone is late for a meeting with you, or we ourselves are late, I now want to consider delays only in the sphere of business meetings, without touching on personal affairs. After all, when someone is late, not only time is lost, but the employer or you yourself lose money. If you add up all the time spent on waiting, a huge amount of man-hours will accumulate, and if these hours are a highly paid employee, for example, a corporate lawyer with a salary of 1000 rubles per hour? This is a huge loss. Or when a neighboring guest cannot send you data for 2 hours, because of what your work is worth, but promised in 15 minutes!

In this regard, the question arose - "How much of your working time do you lose on waiting?". Punishments for being late - fines, punishments, reprimands, etc., come up regularly in various places. But as practice shows, all the same, there are those who are chronically late, regardless of the consequences. For example, Latin American and African football players are regularly late in their teams after the holidays, and in football, fines for this are tough. or even as with I.V., Stalin is legislative to punish for being late? ..

I think this problem has several facets: education, psychology and the ability to evaluate. First: education of a person defines his whole life, by education I understand the directed socialization of a person, Psychology - I think some people have a mental predisposition to being late. And the last inability of a person to realistically assess their capabilities. Here are three components, each of which can lead to unpleasant consequences.
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All this was an introductory remark, which requires a separate study. Today I am interested in the question of how you fill in the time spent waiting, that is, the question is:
"What are you doing while waiting?" Do you spend time productively or just spit at the ceiling? Perhaps this time is not enough for you to complete urgent matters. It seems to me that there are an infinite number of options for spending time. But there are some basic ones that I think should cover 80-85% of the audience. And in the conclusion of the interrogation,

"What are you doing while waiting?"
1. I read (newspaper, book, all that is written around)
2. smoke
3. talking on the phone
4. talking (with a friend or a stranger)
5. play) on the phone, computer, console)
6. I do nothing (I sit, walk aimlessly)
7. I write (SMS, on a computer, in a notebook)

what other options are there?

PS this is my IHMO, for the time being it does not pretend to be scientific :).