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They will show up at 3:30 pm, THE NEXT DAY and swear YOU'RE the one with the wrong appointment date and time.
In my personal life, I like to be on time. Sometimes, I realize, I even reach the point of being anal about it. I HATE being late: to appointments, meetings, church, work, the movies-it really doesn't matter, if there is a particular time I am supposed to be there, that is what time I want to be there. Period. This is not to say I have never been and will never be late, I am human. But when I'm late I get this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and I am calling/texting/emailing/sending out pigeon messengers to the person or people waiting for me.
I digress.
It's not even about me. What makes people not respect my time as a 'free' lawyer so horrible is that they don't seem to care that it takes time away from other cases and clients. While I am waiting for you to grace me with your presence, I have clients that wanted to come see me but could not, because I blocked off time for you. While I may have felt a little under the weather this morning, I drank some OJ, took 2 Alka-Seltzer and trucked it on in to work because YOU said this was the only day your supervisor would let you off. While I am waiting for you to finish the 'shoot-the-shit' conference you are having in chambers, I have a 16 year old client in jail whose file I would really like to be working on.
"Time is money." That adage apparently does not ring true for attorneys with non-paying clients.
Oh the life of a public offender...
Until next time,
Be blessed, be careful, don't confess and don't consent.
~LT
