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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School bus is a shitterOk, so let me paint a picture of my journey to school, I got up an hour before i needed to be out, just to be sure I'd make the bus.
Imagine my supprise when rounding the courner to my bus stop I see said bus drive past, with nearly 5 mins before it was ment to go past. This was a school bus and only comes once a day, so I was pissed off, but still had an option.
I quickly make the long journey to the next bus stop were I can get a bus from, knowing I'll probebly miss registration and be around 5 mins late for my first class. Get on the bus, which makes painfully slow progress, but arrives just in time. I get to school as all the kids were making there way to lessons, quickly sign the late register and arive at my 9.15 class at about 9.18.
I walk into the class, starting my appology to the teacher, saying the bus had been early and I'd had to get anouther bus, but was cut short by him telling me to get outside.
I was annoyed but I figured I was late and he wanted a word, so I waited, and waited, and waited.
3/4 of the class was up, people inside stopped laughing when looking out at me and began to feel sympathy, after all, i can't have been much later then them, they were all getting books out when I got in. They began to remind the teacher he had a student outside. He claimed he didn't care but eventualy came out to tell me off.
He asked what excuse I had for being so late, I explained the problem, and riminded him I was there at 9.18, and the class were unpacking their books when I got in. He then tells me I'd missed registration, as he was my form tutor he had noticed. I was annoyed, I made effort to argue being late for form but told him this was chemistry, and I needed to learn it as it was my GCSE year, and that I'd signed the late register allready. I was told I should go to a different bus stop, I told him that added an extra 15 mins to my walk, making it half an hour long, apparently, he didn't care.
So I got in trouble for being within the reasonable time for my lesson, but got in trouble for being late for 15 mins of pointlessly sitting around.
Real kicker is he made everyone 5 mins late for a lesson a week or so ago so he could find out what one boy had been talking about before school, which apparently required 29 outher students to whitness.
This was 4 years ago and I'm still annoyed at the jumped up little twat, Mr Oren, your a dick!
(, Thu 28 Jun 2007, 14:57, Reply)
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