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No reliability And your appears a la shmoop Alright it's

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wednesday night And you're watching the real housewives of doing

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your homework Yeah you're doing your homework Obviously When your

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friend calls the theater department at her dream school is

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offering her a scholarship All she's gotta do is come

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in and audition Yes if you could do her a

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huge one and drive her to the audition You agree

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and plan to meet her at ten a m on

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saturday Well on saturday morning rolls around You're here while

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your friend is here trying to make her audition time

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when she finally shows up an hour and a half

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later she's told they no longer want to see her

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and send her on her way way out that hurts

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You go straight to your place after the botched audition

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and demands to know how you could be so irresponsible

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and unreliable You're completely bewildered Why is your friend dressed

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like a cat Then it hits you Oops You begged

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her to give you a second chance Anything she needs

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you'll be there Well lucky for you she still has

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a meeting with the recruiter from her dream school coming

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Up she needs to be there monday at nine a

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m why she decides to give you a second chance

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We have no idea but anyway you go out and

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buy a day planner and right down the audition and

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double bookings always been an issue for you But now

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that all your appointments are in one place while he

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won't be over committing yourself anymore right And only the

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most important appointments are going down in this bad boy

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You said yes to any and everybody in the past

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get people to stop pestering you and leave you alone

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right But since that pesky habit of not following through

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has branded you is unreliable you're changing that if you

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can't keep your word don't give it is worse to

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commit to something only to bow out last minute or

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do freddy job Plus we've heard branding stings for bessie

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Yes so best to avoid that risk altogether Anyway you

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made it a habit to double check your day planner

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every day It's like flossing if you do it every

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night you want for yet when you check it on

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sunday you see the auditions tomorrow at eight Thirty is

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that an alarm on sunday night So you know exactly

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when to leave to make it to your friends house

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fashionably late that's Not your style anymore You prefer trend

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leigh on time even a little early You show up

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at her house at eight a m and because you

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planned it all so well you get her to our

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meeting by eight Fifteen Well done Guess what Reliability isn't

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just a good skill to have When it comes their

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friends comes handy in the working world If you're punctual

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pull your weight and do your work consistently well you'll

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be pulling into the employee of the month parking space

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before you know it ching and employees of the month

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while they tend to be promoted pretty quickly change and

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hey because of your reliability your friend got into her

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dream school She'll send you a free t shirt when

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she gets settled pew Now you can go back to

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real house What a homework you can go back to 00:02:49.64 --> [endTime] your homework that's right

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