Anyone have an awkward experience where they are hanging out at a friend's house and they get called into work, and you have no ride home so you have to wait until your friend returns from work? I had this experience recently. I was a friend's house and she got called in. She probably didn't have to go in since she had the day off but one of her coworkers decided to not show up that day so she felt obligated to say yes and go in. I don't blame her. I probably would have done the same thing out of fear of getting yelled at. She told me we would continue to hang out once she returns. The only problem was that since I didn't have a ride home, I had to stay at her house for four and a half hours until she returned. I feel like she could have probably just taken me back to the bus stop twenty minutes away from her house before going to work but it probably would have been too inconvenient.

While I waited for her to return, I offered to help her mother put a major puzzle together, almost completing it and then helped put up an artificial Christmas tree and had it nearly complete once my friend returned from work. Me and my friend still hung out afterwards. She must have really wanted to hang out as well since she didn't take me back home right away despite it being super late. I didn't mind, it made good use of some of the time that was lost. I wasn't mad at her, if any thing, annoyed at the person who decided to no-show. I found out recently from my that the coworker that didn't show up had quit without saying anything and got a new job. That resulted in immediate termination. Has anyone been in a situation where you had to wait around at a friends house until they returned from work or even vise versa? If so, what did you do while waiting? How long did you have to wait? Just curious. Despite the awkwardness of being at her house without her, I was glad I was able to be of assistance with helping with a puzzle and a the tree. The mother was very appreciative.