Nothing screams "emergency" quite like a client who suddenly discovers your direct line and treats it like a nuclear launch button. They'll bypass every single established communication channel, interrupt your deep focus session, and declare their issue is DEFCON 1 levels of urgent. You drop everything, reschedule meetings, cancel lunch, and wait for their response with the intensity of a thousand suns. And then? Radio silence. Crickets. Tumbleweeds. They've ghosted you harder than that Tinder date from 2019. Turns out their "critical production-breaking issue" wasn't quite urgent enough to warrant a follow-up message. But YOUR time? Totally expendable, apparently.