company christmas meal a couple of years ago
one of our then site managers, who has since left for other reasons, was getting steadily drunk at his table in the spanish restaurant and making a bigger and bigger fool out of himself in front of everybody. being loud and obnoxious, speaking out of turn to the director, you get the idea. you name the faux pax, he made it.

after quite some time of this, he must have had a brief moment of clarity and realised that he was in fact making a complete and utter cock out of himself, and had better leave before it got any worse. so he did what many of us have done and pretended to have gotten an emergency call from his mum who'd had an accident, and so he had to leave early.

shortly after his exit, dinner table conversation turned pretty quickly to how exactly his mum had managed to call him from heaven.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 14:39, Reply)