"Just got off the phone with one I have been trying to get in touch with for weeks.  She wanted to come in today so I could meet the deadline.  I told her see her next week."

I used to kill myself trying to get the procrastinators done at the last minute to make them happy.  I'm getting too old and crabby for that so I had to close the daycare center.  If they really need someone to hold their hand they can either go somewhere else or listen to old Beatles tunes.