A friend referred me to a client he didn't have the skills to help. I took the opportunity and proposed a solution.

A year later and several touch-and-go conversations and I finally got a >$10k signed statement of work with $5k up front.

Another year later and lots more gaps in communication and I'm almost done with the project. I figured that since they weren't in a hurry to get the project done that I could count on them not expecting me to work a lot over the holidays and that we'd wrap it up in the new year.

Nope. Suddenly all content is finally showing up two days before a pre-Christmas launch.

Why do clients do this?!