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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...I called a guy up last week to cover a class for another teacher, who'd fallen down some stairs by accident ... this bloke told me he couldn't come to teach at 5:00, because he was shopping! (It was about 1:30 at this time ...). And he didn't want to insult the other teacher who'd taken him shopping ... twunt
Also, the guy who fell down the stairs? Found out he'd been playing frisbee, drunk, and jumped to take a catch - THEN fallen down the stairs ... so, it kinda WAS an accident, but ...
Another has called in a few times, because she was sick, and she doesn't know why ...
Well, WE all know - she's either been on a 2 or 3 day bender, or she's drunk so much on her first night off, she's STILL sick 2 days later ...
We watched a guy at my last job walk out at the end of the night with a case of beer he'd bought at lunchbreak ... he called in with "food poisoning" the next day.
Nice to see people taking their jobs as "Foreign English Experts" so seriously :)
My excuses are pretty lame.
Easy to use here is, "I have diarrhea (sp?) and I don't want to use the toilets at work."
We have Chinese toilets at work, but Western loos at home, so it makes sense ...)
I used to regularly wag off classes for uni (before I stopped bothering making excuses) by saying I had an optometrists appointment ... had about 30 in one semester.
Not amusing, but just adding my 2 cents ...
(, Fri 29 Jun 2007, 7:30, Reply)
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