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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The subway was delayed because the draw bridge was upWhen I was working in downtown New York, a fellow I was supervising was late to work because the subway was stopped while the draw bridge was up. I researched it, and his story was completely true. The last elevated train in New York was torn down in 1952, but there are subways that run above ground. The subway from Bronx to Manhattan runs over a draw bridge. They rarely raise it, but that day they had a barge full of old subway cars that were headed out of town.
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