SFPW,
"Let's say every day on your commute to work you notice a well dressed man waiting for the bus at the bus stop. You don't pay him that much attention. However, one day your car wont start and being that you're in a hurry, you decide to catch the bus. The same bus you see the well dressed man waiting for. You approach him and ask if the arrival of the bus is imminent? He replies "it should be here soon, possibly in ten minutes but who knows. It could be longer." You wait 10 minutes, and growing impatient, you decide to call your boss and inform him that you're going to use a sick day in effect calling off."
I'd like to understand your illustration better. Does the "well-dressed man" represent the Governng Body, or is it simply a "red herring"? I would not think it a proper parallel for the "well-dressed man" that regularly utilizes the same bus stop to represent the Governing Body predicting the end. The end has not come yet. In contrast, the bus has been at the stop before. In fact, it frequents the bus stop on a repetitive schedule, yielding reliable predictability.
Matt: 24:36,37: "Concerning that day and hour+ nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son,* but only the Father.+ 37 For just as the days of Noah+ were, so the presence* of the Son of man will be."