Sitting here at work bored out of my mind, I got thinking about this and remembered many years ago my Mother used to work in a hospital and one woman she worked with used to have a lot of time off. I think she must have run out of excuses in the end as one day she rang up and told them she would not be in that day as 'she had wind and couldn't get her skirt done up'!!!!
Whats the best excuse you have come up with or heard?
A chap at my husbands work said a certain members of his family had passed away.. When they actually ran a check his mother had passed away 5 times in two years.. he was laid off..
A friend of mine phoned up her boss to say that she wouldn't be coming into work. Her boss thought it might be to do with her son, as he was a poorly child and sympathetically said "oh, Brenda, Sorry to hear that. Is it your son again?"
To which she replied..........
"No, thankfully my son is ok. It is my dad"
He then said again how sorry he was.
To which she replied.............
"Thanks, Dad won half a million on the lottery over the weekend and I need to help him spend it. I won't be coming back to work at all"
I always have lots of time off work as i have a very bizarre life where things go wrong most of the time. Luckily now i have children i don't have to work as i would never be in! It takes us all our time to go to playgroup
Anyway back when i had my first 'proper' job, i was about 18 and worked in a call centre to fund university. I used to drive from Liverpool uni to Bolton where the GUS call centre was so i was always late, stuck in traffic, lecture ran on etc.. One time i had been doing the horses and the weather was awful and the wind was racing upto the stables and the tarpaulin we had on the roof was flapping. I got the ladder out and climbed up to secure it and the wind knocked me and the ladder backwards and i landed on the very soggiest part of the muck heap. I was literally layed in a sloppy muckheap and was covered from head to toe. I got home and rang my boss to tell her i was going to be late as id fallen off a ladder into the muckheap and now had to shower and get changed so would be at least an hour late. She found it hilarious as did everyone else when i got there.
A few months later at the xmas do they had an awards ceremony for all the achievments and at the end they said they had a special award. My boss started telling a story - it was a bitterly cold night with driving rain etc... really hamming it up (by this point i was v drunk anyway and hadn't twigged) she ended by calling me up for the 'Best Excuse Award'!! I got up laughing and everyone turned to me and started clapping and they'd all got pegs on their noses! My 'award' was a big bottle of bubble bath
The funny thing is all my excuses are usually true!!
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Posted - 29 Mar 2009 : 11:47:29 PM
