Needless to say I didn't make it, and I was replaced by someone else.
In this case I fell victim to my cheap Ralphs Grocery cell phone which I use because it costs $6.70 a month. Apparently I hit just the right combination of keys via "pocket dialing" to get it halfway through sending a text message of its own - consequently it never rang when one came in. I took it out of my pocket to tell them I was about to head down to Van Nuys, noticed the problem, and cleared off the error message - only to get three inbound texts in a row.
Excrement transpires.
