Weekend phone calls...at night

[JoeyBryant]

I'm going to make fun of myself and call this another episode of Joey's pet peeves...I'm thinking of putting my blog back on air.

 

Anyhow, what is up with some people calling last minute on Friday or Saturday evenings to book appointments? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the occasional spontaneous late evening call...but it seems to be a pattern sometimes. I've basically gone all week long with it being silent and dead as can be, apart from the call at 1 am the other night to drive 65 miles from home. Wasn't going to do it.

 

So, generally after a few day I tend to 'give up'...as in, not look at my phone as often or as in the case of tonight, go to the movies and conveniently forget my work phone at home. Sure enough, I get back home and there's a missed call and voice message. 11 pm. It's like okay, what would have been wrong with contacting me earlier in the day to let me know you'd want to meet at that time of night? or maybe shoot a text or call saying you'd be in town that night?

 

Sure I may have been the backup plan or spur of the moment decision. But the reason doesn't matter. What gets me is the fact that somehow we're expected to be a slaved to our phones on date night and have no life whatsoever. And we do. It's not the fact of the client wanting to see me on Friday night at 11 pm, it's the fact that someone would call at the last minute asking for it.

 

I guess I'm just starting to notice this after just getting out of a relationship and had most Fridays and Saturdays off limits the past 5 months. But it's just sad to think that even if I did answer the call, it's like It'd be because I had no plans...no life...no date. No one asked me to hangout. Just home alone waiting for the phone to ring. Of course one can choose to turn off their phone and go about their business, but if there's no calls coming in all during the week, if you want the extra $$ you gotta be on stand-by during the weekends without even any guarantee that a call is actually going to come thru. You could easily cancel plans with friends for nothing. I'm sorry, but that just seems like a sad way to spend the weekends. Just some food for thought for those who decide to contacting someone late at night.

[SteveEscort]

We all get them, sometimes I don't mind then, other times they get on my nerves.

 

A few weeks back I had a call to visit a guy at a hotel in the city centre. He was lovely and it was after midnight before I arrived but a lot of the calls I get during the night are from guys who are drunk, coked up to their eyeballs and married men who think they'd like to try cock for the first time. I usually ignore those calls.

 

I will entertain guys at home who I have seen before no matter what time it is. I have seen regulars at 2am, it's not a problem if they let me know at least by midnight but I frown upon the same guys if they keep me up until 2am and then cancel at 1.50am.

[nate_sf]

It doesn't bother me to get a late-night phone call on either the weekdays or weekends. I figure it is someone who for whatever reason was not able to plan ahead... maybe they just flew into town and before this point and were not sure if they'd be available, or maybe they had an earlier social obligation that finished sooner than they'd expected and now they're horny. They may be in a relationship and their window of availability is limited or unpredictable.

 

If I'm available I'll take the call, but if I'm not I just let it go to voicemail. I think I'd rather have someone call at the last minute, opposed to someone who's not totally sure make an appointment in advance and then cancel at the last minute. I figure the last minute calls are wanting to see if they can get someone on the phone to hook up, and hoping (but not necessarily expecting) that I'm able to answer the call and shift things around to see them.

 

Last Saturday I went out to a club by myself and brought my work phone along. The club was kind of boring so I'd have welcomed a last-minute phone call and would have left to meet a client if asked. Other times if I'm going out with friends I'll leave the work phone at home. If I miss a last-minute call they usually don't leave a message, but I'll follow up with a text to see if they want to try another time. Sometimes we can schedule for the next day or night, or we'll connect the next time they're in town if they're visiting. You never know.

[bigvalboy]

As a client, I will often hire an escort days or weeks in advance. That probably is the norm for me, but every now and again, I will call an escort last minute, if I suddenly get in the mood. I always apologize for the last minute call, but I usually get a very quick response back. I have even called very late on a Friday or Saturday night, and 90% if of the time I will get a call back.

[+ poolboy48220]

I've made last-minute calls, late. Sometimes they've been up for it, other times they say it's too late - which is fine. I don't expect the escort to be hanging by their phone, I also apologize for the last-minute call, but if they do answer and are willing, I figure it's a win for both of us. If it's not convenient, don't answer.

 

I've got friends who *always* answer their phones, even if it's only to say "Sorry, I can't talk now", which puzzles me. Isn't that what voice mail is for?

[MiamiLooker]

If it's not convenient, don't answer.

 

That sounds really complicated and unreasonable. Can you suggest a simpler solution?

[MsGuy]

That sounds really complicated and unreasonable. Can you suggest a simpler solution?

 

hahahahahaha...two thumbs up

[+ nycman]

That sounds really complicated and unreasonable. Can you suggest a simpler solution?

 

Get a 9-5 job at a bank?

 

Grin

[Xander]

On that note -- Fridays/Saturdays my phone goes off at about 1AM. I've found calls after 1AM tend to be from druggies/flakes/pranksters and its generally not worth me losing sleep over

 

Voicemail to text-message is a lifesaver when I'm in class... I always text missed calls immediately to let them know why I didn't pick up. Many times I've booked a client in the middle of a lecture just because I could get the details of their voicemail from the transcribed text. Distracting from school, sure, but I had to pay for these textbooks somehow..

[JoeyBryant]

Last Saturday I went out to a club by myself and brought my work phone along. The club was kind of boring so I'd have welcomed a last-minute phone call and would have left to meet a client if asked.

 

I'll admit that's sort of where I was the other night...it was a date but the guy was boring lol.

 

To re-iterate, it's not that I'm against the last minute late night calls, even on weekends. They can and often are quite lucrative at times (which makes them so tempting to answer lol). But it's also meant that sometimes I needed to cancel plans with friends in lieu of it. I don't want to cancel plans with friends and I don't want to miss the opportunity but it can place you in that (benign) dilemma.

 

However, I know it's generally easier to ditch some people than others. My BFF just throws a fit if I even mention the possibility of having to see a client during our together time.