A similar experience occurred for me. My GF and I went to Vegas for halloween (we both used to live there, so we have many friends and family there) and on the

A similar experience occurred for me. My GF and I went to Vegas for halloween (we both used to live there, so we have many friends and family there) and on the day we were leaving we decided to have a Vietnamese lunch with her parents. I got "the call" from my co-founder that there was a bug and it was affecting many of the systems on both customer and employee facing functionality. So I told my GF, "I'm going to have to fix this before we begin our four hour drive back to SD." She said, "Okay honey." I sat there for two hours, programming furiously through lunch with her and her parents till I had it fixed to a point where I could leave it for the next 6 hours. Thank god my Nexus One has tethering support and my girlfriend was supportive. Her parents seemed indifferent but other patrons were looking at us strangely as my GF sat there playing with her phone while I went apeshit on my laptop. Kudos to the author for being an awesome mate; and I second the advice of becoming "involved".