As a traveling notary, signing agent I get calls to do notary assignments and have about 4 hours to plan for the appointment.   Such being the case Friday afternoon, I had a call to do a signing in Posey that evening. Called my parents to see if they would take the boys for me if Brian wasn't home earlier enough to stay with them, called to borrower to set the time and get directions. Borrower said they expected to be at their cabin by 5 and would call me when they got there so I could head over, instead of me sitting infront of their cabin waiting.  By 6:30 no one had called so I called the signing company that contacted me and left a message that the borrowers had not called, no one was answering the phone at the cabin, etc. Even called the loan company and left a message there with the same information. The borrowers called around 8pm, too late for me to drive over there and do the signing (each signing takes approximately 2 hours, plus drive time).  I got a call from the signing company Saturday morning, (they didn't ge the message I left Friday night), told them what had happened, they called the loan company, etc, etc.  Heard nothing from anyone over the weekend, then this morning while I was at school with Cole the signing company called me twice and emailed once wanting to know what happened, the loan company was pissed that the signing didn't take place.  The borrowers are now back in Bakersfield so they found another notary there to take  care of it. But what pisses me off is that the signing company and the loan company think I'm a complete idiot for not doing the signing over the weekend.  Majority of these documents are date sensitive, and that's why I didn't "just do" the signing on Saturday. These documents turned out to not be date sensitive, so I could have done the signing, if someone would have just phoned and told me that.  So now I'm out the $75 for the signing, plus all the paper and ink I used to print the documents. I asked the signing company for a partial payment for my time, they told me they had to check with the manager and find out the procedure for these things.  B.S. - at least $40 is acceptable for my time to just print the documents and read everything to make sure it's all there.  When these things happen it makes me wonder why I bother doing loan signings, I'm not going to get rich from them, and they are few and far between up here, but if I'm ever back in town then it would be more beneficial and I could still service the mountain communities.

But on a funny note, the borrowers had friends up to their cabin for the weekend and these friends got lost - so they stopped at my parents house for directions and to use the phone - coincidence you think?

Thanks for letting me blow some steam, one of these days I'll figure out how to let stuff like this just roll off my back and move on to the next thing (I hope)!!