Yes, you are fortunate to not have suicidal friends, friends whose husbands like to beat the shit out of them and threaten to kill them but who refuse to go to the police, teenage kids who may end up drunk at a party with no ride home and no money for a cab, etc. (Note that I don’t have teenage kids either, but plenty of people do). I know that I would not want to wait until morning to find out, for example, that my boyfriend was nearly killed in a car accident and was sitting on life support at the hospital. Of course, to me, a friend saying “I’m really upset and need someone to talk to” is enough of an emergency for me to consider it more important than my uninterupted sleep for one night.