Yeah, I try that. But, other times it is impossible to abandon them. A couple of years ago my gf (now wife) wanted to go to that silly Eric Carle museum in Massachusetts. She lived on the UWS of manhattan and I was going to pick her up at the designated time. She never came down on time even though this was a museum she really really wanted to go to. Anyway, she woke up an hour later and I made damn sure she chased my MDX for 5 city blocks before I let her in.