# Phoney reasons for calling in sick
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 22, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384 "2002-10-22T15:10:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@B\_Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B_Williams)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/1 "2002-10-22T15:10:29Z")
This should be fun…Who can claim the world most perfect excuse for calling in sick…My friend may be a winner already by calling in “'UGLY”. It seems a sider bit her eyelid and she truely looked terrible.She is fine today thank God .I may share mine later.
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### Author:  [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/2 "2002-10-22T15:47:51Z")
I had to call in stupid once. Damned daylight savings time!
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### Author:  [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/3 "2002-10-22T20:48:17Z")
I actually did call in dead once.
I hadn’t slept in days.
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### Author:  [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/4 "2002-10-22T21:10:15Z")
I think I have a contender here. (I thinkI’ve posted about this before, but what the heck.)
One time I had to call in “no pants”. The laundry room at my apartment closed at 9 PM. One night, I completely forgot that I had a load in the dryer that included ALL my pants (except for the sweats I was wearing). I didn’t remember them until almost midnight, way too late to ask the manager to unlock the room, so I had to wait until 9 AM the next day to get them out. Had to call in and say I’d be late because my pants were being held hostage. They were amused.
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### Author:  [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/5 "2002-10-23T02:39:29Z")
“bit her eyelid”?
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/6 "2002-10-23T08:21:28Z")
Spiders do that. Their fangs aren’t that big.
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### Author:  [@B\_Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B_Williams)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/7 "2002-10-23T14:06:04Z")
OK …got some pretty good responces but, none of which can beat mine…True story ,I swear to God,…MY dog, Sweet Pea, chewed up my teeth.I was showering ,with my lower plate placed on the tub’s edge (which I will never do again) when my dog decided that it would make a great chew bone. I called Betty ,my boss and all she could do is laugh as I cried…She claimed she wasn’t laughing at me but it was the best call in she had ever heard…I was allowed to get off work to go the the dentist along with the powered teeth by my side.
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phoney-reasons-for-calling-in-sick/133384/8 "2002-10-23T16:55:53Z")
I called in with a sprained ass once.
Don’t know if it was actually sprained but it was unuseable. One can’t walk or put on one’s own socks if one’s ass is taking a vacation. No clue what caused it, it went away about a week later.