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What's the best excuse you have ever used to call off work?

Posted - February 17, 2017

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  • I never could because I owned and ran the business. Went through a couple of Managers but they didn't work out, so I had to go no matter what!
      February 17, 2017 1:55 PM MST
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  • If you want things done right..do em yourself!
      February 17, 2017 1:59 PM MST
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  • 44173
    My wife was bitten by a cat and got an extremely bad infection in her arm. I was with her in the hospital.
      February 17, 2017 2:10 PM MST
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  • Not bad
      February 17, 2017 2:15 PM MST
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  • ima make a note of THIS one...pretty good!
      February 18, 2017 11:41 AM MST
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  • 170
    I'd been involved (on my Royal Enfield (google if necessary)) in a collision with an Austin Cambridge (google if necessary). I had a slightly broken leg. It was going to be difficult to get to work after that, it's not one of those injuries you can just ignore.......
      February 17, 2017 2:49 PM MST
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  • Google wasn't necessary. I'd say that was even before your avatar was popular. 
      February 17, 2017 3:59 PM MST
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  • Slightly broken leg...maybe that's like "a little bit pg"...?
    I love your username, Plingsby!
      February 18, 2017 11:40 AM MST
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  • 170
    Hey Virginia :)
      February 18, 2017 12:33 PM MST
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  • I took a day off to visit my son who lives about 350 km west. We left too early to ring the office so I pulled up at a phone box along the way. It was a public service job and the conversation went like this. 

    This is Didge. I won't R-O-A-A-R be in today.
    What's that noise? 
    It's a truck. They're diverting traffic past R-O-A-A-R my home. 
    Oh Ok. What's the problem? 
    I've got the colly R-O-A-A-R wobbles. 
    You've got what? 
    Collywobbles. 
    How do you spell it. (Yep, he really asked.) 
    C-o-l-l-y-w-o-b-b-l-e-s.
    Oh, OK. 

    Yes, it really happened with trucks roaring past. That was in 1992 and byu now that lad is probably running the Department now. And he still won't know what collywobbles means.
      February 17, 2017 4:06 PM MST
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  • (Sigh) ... a true Dozy classic...but thank heaven I did meet you, coz I would never have known the word COLLYWOBBLES...indispensable, life not complete without it...
      February 18, 2017 11:38 AM MST
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  • We all have our contribution to make, Virginia, no matter how small. I've collywobbled myself into your memory. But, of course, we met in a discussion about "sesquipedalian". That was way back in 2011.
      February 18, 2017 2:32 PM MST
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  • Dozy, you absolutely must stand corrected here, because the FIRST word we met on was actually ABSQUATULATE.
    You had happened upon Ask.com, and about to leave it deciding nothing there for you...and then you came upon that Q about What Is Your Favourite Word? If people were that outrageous you thought maybe you would check it out further...and thereby hangs the tale!

    Sesquipedalian came later...we were both cross-eyed with delight (or at least I was) to have found similar nuttiness in love of words...even though halfway across the world (and I will always remember Lynne and her secateurs, too!)...and I think that somewhere I still have that list I was making of all the words I was learning from you...bunyips...def. a favourite too. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 18, 2017 3:25 PM MST
      February 18, 2017 3:10 PM MST
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  • My apologies, Virginia. You are correct. Put it down to a seniors moment.

    And I left you a note somewhere else, this morning. Those green dots on our avatars indicate that we're on line. Members who are not on line have no spot. 

    (Heading out shortly but I'll be back later.)
      February 18, 2017 3:26 PM MST
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  • Oh thank heaven then...I was totally certain they gave the green dots just to those people who required special watching to keep 'em (us) in line...
      February 18, 2017 3:29 PM MST
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  • Probably when a girl ran a stop sign and totaled my car. She ripped a huge hole in my trunk and bent up the front axil when I slid into the concrete shoulder. I was on some interesting muscle relaxants for the muscles in my neck that wouldn't calm down. The doctor almost sent me into physical therapy because the relaxants didn't seem to work at first.
      February 17, 2017 4:11 PM MST
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  • Simple and straight.  A cough, a raspy voice and "I'm really sick."
      February 17, 2017 4:26 PM MST
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  • 169
    I've never had to have an excuse to get off work unless I was sick, however I had to call and let them know I was going to be late once because there was a house blocking the road. My boss said she'd excuse it if I could prove it - I still have the picture I took somewhere.
      February 17, 2017 8:35 PM MST
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  • A guaranteed, no-hassle, fool-proof excuse for not going to work?  "JURY DUTY"
    My company told me the only way I could get out of Jury Duty was to die. 
      February 17, 2017 8:54 PM MST
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  • Most employers will require a copy of Jury Duty notification for this to be accepted.  There is always the option of blowing off this "duty".
      February 18, 2017 4:04 AM MST
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  • 508
    im pregnant again.
      February 18, 2017 12:12 AM MST
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  • Skunky, ima use that too...I am *only* 72 y/o...you do think it will fly, don't you?
    You and I could go into work together...with straight faces...surely no one could resist our "truth" !!! ??? This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 21, 2017 9:31 PM MST
      February 18, 2017 11:34 AM MST
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  • 7776
    "My grandmother is pregnant".
      February 18, 2017 11:41 AM MST
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  • 952

    Lolzzzz!
      February 18, 2017 11:51 AM MST
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