The thing is that they know when you've gone. Last time was exactly one week after we'd left and I'd gone back to work. I had to take a week off work without being able to warnt he headmaster in advance. Fortunately he was OK about it.
But yes, I get what you say and would love to do that!!
Did I tell you about the peeps in the same village who woke up to find that the guard dog who was sleeping outside their bedroom door, as usual, had killed a burglar during the night?
We were in the vets and told them about our burglary, she said that that morning the police brought a dog to them to check it wasn't mad nor nuffin. They said it wasn't so it didn't get put down as it was judged to have simply done its job! Then she told us the story. Whoever it was in the village has kept very quiet about it, as we don't know who it was.
Another pair of neighbours got burgled and told us that their dog was in the house but didn't bark, so they have to assume that he knew the burglars and didn't see them as the enemy!
They trooly is scum!