Don't feel so bad.
On June 4, 1996 I was an on demand courier in Baltimore, Maryland and it was a slow afternoon. I was waiting for well over an hour in downtown Baltimore on Charles Street just north of Pratt Street in a place well called "The Wall" because it was an office building with a drive way that we delivered to often and although technically illegal to sit there we were usually left alone.
So I went to get a cup of coffee and came back. And I am zoning out a bit and enjoying my coffee. nothing is happening and I am not making any money.
But I have my coffee sitting on my dashboard and smoking a cigarette and wishing I had something to do. Back then we had radios in our cars to get orders for work from our dispatchers. Cell phones , let alone Aps, were not yet a thing.
Then my dispatcher wakes me out of my state of daydreaming with a rush job from a law firm around the corner to the Maryland Court of Appeals which will pay quite well. So I acknowledge the call and zip off to the law firm.
Except the moment I do the coffee falls into my lap. It was still hot, but that is not the problem. I have to go into a law firm that is one of our biggest clients looking like I just pissed myself. And i do that. I pick up the the envelope containing the delivery and I just refuse to explain or be embarrassed. I ma just intent on doing my job because, well damn it, it is my job. No matter what.
So I know that the Maryland Court of Appeals, unlike most court houses in Maryland, DC, and Virginia is a very quiet place. there are no crowds, no people except those who work there. I won't see more than the guy at the front desk and the clerk on the third floor who I am delivering this to.
Except that this was handed down on this very day by the Maryland Court of Appeals:
Court Rejects Bid to Exhume Remains in John Wilkes Booth’s Grave
I am walking up to the court house and every major (and all the local) news outlets are on the front steps interviewing the plaintiffs who had just lost their case. the plaintiffs are facing the court house and all these cameras are facing...
Me!
I lived through it anyway. :)