Not me, but my little cousin.
His parents went on vacation and he was staying at my house for a week. He wasn't feeling well one day but wanted to go to school anyway. About 1pm rolls my office gets a call from his school. The call is routed to my assistant and she asks if she can take a message since I was with a client. The teacher tells my assistant that it's an emergency and she needs to speak with me right away. She then comes into my office and tells me that my cousin's school is on the line and it's an emergency.
Well, I FREAK OUT and ask my client to hold on a moment while I take the call.
It's his freaking PE teacher.
The PE teacher starts the conversation with "I'd like to talk to you about accountability." She then proceeds to go into a long winded discussion about accountability that lasts 10 minutes. I interrupt her and ask if my cousin is okay.
The PE teacher tells me that he said he wasn't feeling well and wanted to sit out of PE that day.
Needless to say, I hit the roof. I ask her if I'm on speaker phone, she tells me I am. I tell her, that I bill out at $375 per hour and by my count she owes me $62.50 for wasting my time. I tell her if my cousin says he's not feeling well, he's not feeling well. I then ask my cousin if he would like me to come and get him. He says yes. I tell him that's fine, I'll be there soon and I'll just add the time onto his PE teacher's bill.
I finish my meeting and go to the school and I'm met by the principal, the PE teacher, and my little cousin in the office. The PE teacher then starts rambling about accountability again and how if this is the example that I'm showing my cousin he's not going to amount to anything.
I turn to the principle and tell him that the PE teacher interrupted a meeting with a client by lying to my assistant, telling her that there was an emergency with my little cousin. I tell him that I was concerned that he had been seriously injured which was a reasonable assumption under the circumstances.
The principle stops the PE teacher, profusely apologizes to me and asks me not to charge for my time (I wasn't actually serious about billing her). I very calmly explain that my cousin had told me he wasn't feeling well that morning but he wanted to go to school anyway, and he's a straight A student. The principle tells me he knows this, rips up the office referral, and asks if there's anything he can do. I ask for two hand written apology letters. One to me and one to my cousin.
I never got the apology letter but I did hear that the PE teacher took a voluntary leave of absence after that year and never came back.
Serves her right. Don't mess with my little cousin.