Is It a Polite Thing to Be Early?

It's a polite thing to be early, isn't it? So this is quite easy. Would you rather lose all of your money and valuables or all of the pictures you've ever taken? I'm trying to think of a situation where being early would be a bad thing. Well, put a dollar. Can this all work? Do the early things all work good things? It's plier, it's cajines.