Why I was late"On the way to the station, I got hit by a bat, it almost took my head clean off. Then the machine would not accept my ticket and the guy at the gate didn't think I looked like the photo on my travel card. So I had to go home and get my passport.
Then the train was 45 minutes late to the station because of the dangerous badger threat at Carpenters Park.
When I was on the train it took and hour and a half to get past the biscuit factory because the driver was really fat.
Then there was a delay stopping at the station because the train in front had heard we were coming and decided to play a practical joke with a rubber shoe on the track.
That is why I couldn't get here on time today."
What's your best excuse?
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chthonic, Thu 28 Jun 2007, 10:36)
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In my first yearI had only one class on a Wednesday, which was French conversation. And I absolutely fucking hated it. You could hear a pin drop in there for an entire hour, except for when the language assistant (having done a year abroad I now have a lot more sympathy for them) asked a question.
Did I mention we referred to her as Isabelle, The Bitch From Hell thanks to her particularly unpleasant and miserable temperament? No? Well, I have now.
Anyway. This class was an hour long, and one day I woke up an hour before it was due to start. I have running round like a nutcase getting ready down to a fine art now, but back then I was slow at best. So I eventually arrive for this class 45 out of a possible 60 minutes late. She was not impressed, and went into You Will Respect My Authoritaaaah mode after the class and demand to know why I was always late to her classes (it used to be like a one-person getting ready for school routine, "don't wanna goooooooo..." every Wednesday morning).
(Note to anyone who is or ever will be a language assistant: You are not a lecturer, you are a language monkey so the professors can have another hour off.)
What was my excuse, in admittedly shocking French? "I'm an insomniac."
Inspired, but I still bricked it for a week over whether I was going to get kicked off my course.
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Maladicta, Thu 28 Jun 2007, 14:19,
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