Similar circumstances to the above post, a high end boutique, who is one of my IT customers, was putting on a charity fashion show. They asked me to help them set up the sound, one of my sub-specialties, because the system at the venue, a restaurant, was very antiquated. We selected the music, I rented the equipment and went the day before he event and set it up, no problem, except that the only place to set up the PC was in the area they were going to use for a dressing room. But I set it up so all they had to do was start it, pause when they needed, and restart, I wasn't even needed, one of the women who worked at the store was pretty tech savy, so I showed her how to run it. I went out and sat in the audience, just in case.
Of course right before the show was to start the music stops, total panic. I go into the dressing room, the models are all customers, not professionals, and they are all in the 20's and hot. When I walk in several of the girls squealed and covered up, but the store owner yelled out that they needed me there, get used to it. The problem was someone had unplugged the notebook PC for a hair dryer and when the battery ran out the music stopped. I got it started in minutes trying to keep my head down so not to look like a creep with a dozen hot women in various stages of undress, several topless. I told the owner all was OK and started to leave, she said "you, Stay! Sit there and I'll que you, we don't have time to run it".
So there I sat for 2 hours, and I got to bill them for it.
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