Sudden interruption of treatment because of illness of the analyst (a missed date with the stork) brought forth certain transference reactions in six analytic patients. Although mainly determined by the repetition compulsion, these reactions closely reflected the characteristics of the preceding transference situation. They were most irrational (and therapeutically utilizable) in those cases with intense libidinal investment in the transference. However, when the transference relationship was determined mainly by narcissistic and defensive elements, the reaction to the particular event was therapeutically less important. A brief discussion of the technical aspects of such external complications of psychoanalysis closes this interesting and unusual report.