Today, I lead another hike. I said "Meet at 8:45 am..we leave promptly at 9am".
Guess what? One person showed up at 9:05 (after I left). To his credit, he realized what happened and said as such in a voice mail.
The other person sent me an e-mail saying "I was there at 9:10..where were you?"..AND she texted me at 9:25 wondering what trail I'm on.
She assumed I had my cell phone during the hike..and was checking text messages. Cripe. The phone was at home.
The group of us on the hike had a nice time, though.