What true excuse for missing class or work....

[magic8ball]

...do you have that sounds like complete BS but did truly occur?

I missed class once because the doorknob to my dorm room wouldn't unlock so I couldn't attend class. I called my professor to let him know but it has to sound like BS.

My example is lame but I'm sure y'all got some doozies!!! Class or work both apply.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I got a bloody nose right before a college exam, the teacher saw the blood and excused me, but I could tell she didn't fully buy it.

But it turned out to be a burst blood vessel/vein way up in my nose. The bloody noses kept getting worse and worse over the weekend. When we were making a keg run, I got it again and we had to use a mall bathroom. It literally looked like a murder scene. Blood everywhere across all the sinks. Some guy walked in, saw it, and ran out lol.

It all culminated in going to the ER, where they had to call in a specialist who after several hours, wound up cauterizing it closed.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I repeatedly use my tenants as a get-out-of-useless-work-meetings card. The first time it was real, I think it was bath work that had to be done. But it got me out of almost all that days worth of ******** work. So since then I've kept it in my back pocket. Going away for a long weekend on Friday? Ah pipe burst. Hungover from football Sunday? Sorry guys, Looks like a leaky ceiling.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

Best excuse I ever received from an employee was, “I’m going to be late because my plane won’t start.”.

He was taking lessons to become a pilot. He had flown a small prop plane from CVG with his instructor over to Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. When they went to leave Lunken and come back to northern Kentucky, the plane would not start.

 

[chroix]

Got a buddy that used to use diarrhea as an excuse. He wore it out and his nickname is now ‘Runs’.

 

[Lord Z]

I had an old employee call in sick on a holiday she was already off on. Then she called me back a few minutes later and apologized and claimed it was her sister that was mistaken trying to call in for her.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

I was prescribed sleeping pills. I took the dosage I was told to at 10 pm. I woke up the next day at 4 pm having missed a test. Luckily my doctor wrote me a note (and lowered the dosage)

 

[CB3UK]

My car wouldn't start one time. Bosses have heard that a thousand times. Turned out to be a simple spark plug issue or some such. I dunno I'm not a car guy.

 

[funKYcat75]

This one time I just didn’t want to go to work and I filled out a form online and stayed home. Such a lil’ stinker.

 

[American Dragon]

I guess the most freak things was I had to leave my college job early one time because I had a bad ear infection literally pop up out of nowhere. I felt perfectly fine with no symptoms or signs or anything, then all of a sudden my ear started to hurt and the pain was increasing exponentially. After like 10 minutes the pain was so bad I had someone take me to urgent care. My ear drum nearly burst and the doctor audibly gasped when she looked in my ear.

I’ve never been in so much pain before and haven’t since. I could barely hear out of that ear for a few weeks. Had to modify quite a few ways I did things because I just couldn’t hear **** out of that ear.

 

[American Dragon]

I’ve only got the flu once right at the end of my job’s Christmas break and was out multiple weeks. I’m sure that raised a few eyebrows because my work didn’t require any written note from the doctor for an extended absence.