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[quote=Anonymous]I usually get a text if they're running late or even a message letting me know their ETA so I can order a taxi and not wait around for ages after they get back.

I don't think I've ever called anyone because mostly people are on time, and a couple of minutes once in a while with profuse apologies doesn't bother me. I try to make sure to tell them if I have somewhere to be right after work, and I think in 99% of cases my time is respected.

Once I had an open ended gig for a dad who was going out with his mates while the wife was off visiting her home country and he said to feel free to sleep on the couch as soon as the kid was in bed, which I did. I often sat for them and usually they were home at 2-3am. That day I woke up at about 5am and he still wasn't there, so my first thought was he was dead and I was going to be the one to have to tell the mother. My second thought was that he was off with someone and I was going to have to decide if I tell the mother or not. And he didn't reply to my text asking if he was alive for about an hour, so I was starting to get properly worried when he kind of fell through the door and onto the couch, somewhere between drunk and hungover and really trying to act sober. It was quite hilarious. Then his daughter woke up and was like 'oh daddy, you're already dressed! You didn't have to do that, I can get on the school bus myself' which was just the most adorable thing. He paid me very generously. We're all good friends so it's become a bit of an inside joke with us, which is nice. But in the moment I was fairly worried.[/quote]

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