The saddest text message ever?

My wife was in Auckland last Friday overnighting on business. On Saturday morning she txted to let me know she was on her way home and about half an hour away. The message read:

Huntly 9:30am.

I couldn’t tell if the message was a cry for help or an expression of existential despair. 

So here are Eric Burdon and the Animals, live in 1965, with one of the songs I most enjoyed playing in a loud rock band. Once more with feeling: