Sorry, Liz, what is a work pass? All he has to do is get in his company truck and drive there. If I hid the truck somehow, he'd just take our car! Getting him to call in sick is like trying to clean the Aegean stables without any rivers! And, since we sold the four-poster, I've nothing to tie him to! Just a platform with a mattress on it! Thanks, though! I am about to give up....:-)