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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Because of some old woman visiting the US for the first time in many years...In my current job I was contracted out to a company in another city about an hour from here, as was another engineer from this company, so we rode together in my car (a VW Jetta diesel that gets 50 mpg).
One morning we were taking our usual route, when traffic stopped. Completely fucking stopped. The interstate was a parking lot.
When traffic began to move again, we were all being shunted off of the interstate to drive through the city and pick up another interstate to continue our journey. It added an hour and a half to our trip, to our vast annoyance- but we finally realized that we had been shunted past the Richmond airport.
So when we got there and they asked why we were late I said, "Because Queen Elizabeth is visiting."
I shit thee not, your bloody queen made me an hour and a half late for work.
(Actually, at the time she was already in WIlliamsburg, where we were headed. I think that Dubya flew into Richmond to be with her, and that's why the roads were closed. But either way, it was Liz's fault.)
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 29 Jun 2007, 18:49,
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