Annoying

A student I'm offering a chance to do some extra credit work to increase his failing grade to a marginal fail/bare pass (why I let myself be persuaded I don't know!) phoned 20 minutes after his supposed appointment time to say he'd just crashed his new BMW but was otherwise uninjured (emotional scars!) So, am I more annoyed because he missed the appointment or that a supposedly "impoverished student" has a BMW to crash? You decide...

18Feb Update: He turned up today with a piece of work he was adamant was his own but could not explain even the simplest thing about and had failed to validate his XHTML -- they start that in year 1 and I spent 11 weeks in their year 2 giving them weekly exercises where validation was necessary! The result: He was wasting my time, had not put in the effort, could not demonstrate progress towards any learning outcomes from the work so his grade remains a fail => Resit time! Moral: If given a second chance, don't throw it away!

The oddest thing for me was his statement Oh but I can't possibly make a summer resit as my sister is getting married abroad ... I don't know how it is with you lot but in my culture that's a really busy time. Is that a racial slur? Fun fun fun...