What is an Emergengy?

I was occupied this weekend with an "Emergency Job" I was contacted fri morning by a guy who was in quite a state of panic, he had an emergency and wanted to know if I was available for a big repair job. I'm rarely available on weekends for work but decided to have a look anyway. I was met on the site by this guy who was visibly nervous and looking a bit hungover also. He proceeded to show me his garage and where he took out 20 feet of the load bearing front wall and another 20 feet of the gable wall, including one of the 4 garage doors and the personell door, other minor damage included the stairs leading to the fully finished apt above and a full bank of kitchen cabinets mounted over his work bench. With at least 30% of the entire structure teetering on the brink of total collapse and his 2004 1ton dodge pickup in quite a mess also, he got right to the point ,"I need this fixed before my wife returns on tuesday" then the words that make me available for work on weekends,"Price is no object" It was a bit of a struggle but mission accomplished. I thuoght it was funny that with all the potential for further diaster from the building collapsing his main concern was his wife finding out that he got drunk and drove his truck through the garage,I mean this guy was terrified, he swore me and my crew to secrecy. During the cleanup phase of the project the idea of blackmail money came up as a joke with some of the guys, that poor guy didn't see the humor and warned me sternly for everyone to keep their mouths shut. "Oh what a tangled web we weave".