"You're rushed?  Come try my forty-eight hour day.  I'll make it brief.  Do you still think you are going to have something for us?  I don't mind the expensive equipment you've got tied up; I can overhead that.  But business is business - and I have to pay three full crews just to stand by for your signal.  Union rules - you know how it is.  I want to do you any favor I can.  We've used lots of your script in the past and we expect to use still more in the future - but I'm beginning to wonder what I'm going to tell our comptroller."