# Have you ever had a 'lame excuse' really happening?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 8, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707 "2010-03-08T08:43:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707/61 "2010-03-12T07:09:42Z")
I normally don’t do much travelling for work, but I was once lucky enough to be sent to Maui for a couple days. After boarding the plane for the flight back, we were told that the plane had developed engine trouble and a mechanic had to be flown in from the Big Island to fix it (Maui is a relatively small airport). Bottom line, we were all stuck until the next day.
As I sat in the terminal imagining how bad this was going to sound when I called in to miss work the next day, I overheard three business colleagues from my flight flipping coins. The loser got the job of calling their boss and explaining that they were stranded on Maui.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707/62 "2010-03-12T16:29:01Z")
> [@NoOrdinaryRabbit](#):
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> I broke my arm, went to the hospital assuming I could get it put in a cast and make it to work on time. The nice doctor gave me a pain pill of some type and being young and dumb, I took it without thinking about side effects and driving.
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> So when I woke back up and my roommate came to get me, I had already missed work…they accepted my excuse and doctor’s note, but I don’t think they ever believed me.
Sheesh! They made you come to work the day you broke your arm?? Talk about slave drivers!
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### Author:  [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707/63 "2010-03-12T22:54:28Z")
I have had to call in sick on Christmas Day twice.
I was once late because my cat ran out the front door while I had my hands full getting my bike out, and I lost my keys while I was chasing her. I couldn’t leave without them because I didn’t have a spare to lock the door.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707/64 "2010-03-13T01:44:22Z")
I’ve had a couple of these. Once, when I was in maybe first grade, I did my homework and left it on the floor. During the night, my dog didn’t eat it… No, he took a _great big dump_ on it. Mom wrote the teacher a note.
And just a year or so ago, I got a call from a gal I’d met at a party and traded numbers with, inviting me to go to a baseball game that evening. I told her matter-of-factly that I had to do laundry that night, expecting that she would totally understand. She got very cold and didn’t call me again.
What I should have told her, in retrospect, is that I’d been out doing one thing or another every night for the previous two weeks, and I was out of underwear, and more than that I was just plumb exhausted and needed a night to relax at home. C’est la vie.
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### Author:  [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-a-lame-excuse-really-happening/531707/65 "2010-03-13T16:43:27Z")
I was once assaulted when I was just sitting, minding my own business, quietly reading poetry. Those police-station holding cells are tiny when you have to stay in them for a few days, but at least no one made me his bitch.
Then there was the time I totaled my car. It was raining, I went under an underpass, and a car was sitting there, stopped at the bottom of the underpass. Because of the dip in the road, I couldn’t have seen him until I was practically on top of him. So I rear-ended him, my glasses got knocked off in the collision, and by the time I found my glasses and put them on he had disappeared.
Insurance company: “Are you going to tell the _police_ that?”
Me: “Yes, of course.”
Honesty’s a curse.
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