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This has me irate at the moment... SB pointed out that I should have asked a bit more nicely than I did, noted, but can you believe this response???
ME:
I need to leave at 5:15 today. Please let me know if this is a problem.
Thank you,
Kristy
Boss:
When you make a request to leave early or to shorten your work day in some way, you need to plan to make up the time. Company policy calls for that. Largely, that’s because the company expects hourly people to be here during their regularly scheduled hours.
You can make up the time in several ways -- coming in early one day, staying 15 minutes later another day or shortening your lunch hour.
In this case, it is okay to leave at 5:15 p.m., but plan to make up the time another day this week.
I’ll be glad to discuss this further later this week.
[BOSS LADY]
AAAAAHHHHH it's FIFTEEN MINUTES!!!! FIFTEEN MINUTES!!!
So I wrote back:
Ok, but I did come in early last Monday and Tuesday on my own accord and thought nothing of it, which is kind of why I thought nothing of leaving at 5:15.
I will make a note of it for the future though.
Annoying. Seriously. ANNOYING! Just thought I would share...
Actually, one time J n' I went to the gas station during our lunch break, and the gas station blew up... or at least half of it did. (It's too long of a story to share here). Anyhow, we returned from lunch about a half hour late. As J shared our crazy story with some coworkers about how we narrowly escaped death, he said to his manager, "I guess I can make up that extra half hour, if you want" assuming his manager would brush it off. Instead, he said, "Yes, that would be good." 
It reminds me of how we have to pay a penalty if we underpay our federal taxes but we don't get any "bonus" for overpaying them. All we get is the refund of the overpayment.
Yikes!!