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The Official Friday Silliness Thread Salutes Calling In Sick
My M&Ms.com (the link that melts in your mouth not in your hands) ^ | January 12, 2007 | Sully777

Posted on 01/12/2007 2:48:36 AM PST by sully777

10 worst excuses to miss work

1) As I was walking to work… I was hit by a plane/helicopter.

This sounds so weirdly stupid that it might leave your boss completely speechless. The secret is to sound pretty dramatic or hurt and hang up the phone immediately, though. He/she’ll probably be too astonished to call you back and will just drop it, hoping you will come to work a normal person the next day.

2) I died

If you say this in a very natural voice, something like: ”Hey, I can’t come in today, I died, sorry guys”, I guess your boss will be shocked for at least a little bit, but you should hang up until he’ll start yelling something about bad jokes, then make a friend call and announce with grief the same thing, and explain you killed yourself and left a tape with a message for the company, the message said: ”Hey guys, I died”. The next day you come in you’ll say it was a misunderstanding.

3) My wife will finally have sex with me… and it’s been 7 years.

Everybody will be so embarrassed, for your embarrassment, I don’t think they’ll be able to say much, they’ll feel too sorry for you to be angry, or anything else.

4) My cat had Siamese triplets.

Cats having many kittens is an usual thing, and Siamese are only twins, but it might sound weird enough to convince, at least temporarily.

5) I am having a middle-age crisis… it’s so painful.

You have to make it sound like it’s a horrible disease, very painful, acute, like a kidney crisis or something, and it’s important to talk over your boss and never answer any of his questions, keep rambling chaotically about your suffering.

6) My mom had a baby…She is 55 and it’s been tough, although she’s in pretty good shape.

This will hopefully sound weird enough to make everybody silent. I mean who the hell has a baby at 55? They’ll probably wonder about that, distracted from your missing work for a while.

7) I am running out of time… my time is over.

This is taken from various writings and from a popular series “South Park”, which I highly recommend for the days when you’ll manage to miss work using these excuses. Will it sound too strange for your boss? Maybe, but if you make it tragic enough, he might think you’ve lost it completely and just wait to talk to you the next day.

8)Kenny died.

This is another character from South Park, he dies every episode and so you won’t lie about something as serious as death, plus you don’t have to explain who he is, because if you say a name full of confidence and in a familiar way, nobody asks questions, especially if it’s about death.

9) I witnessed a pocket robbery and I’m going in to testify.

It’s very stupid to testify for a pocket robbery, but if you’re talking about the police, testimonials and so on, nobody will be very interested to find out more, probably.

10) I ran out of clean underwear.

This is again so embarrassing that nobody will probably care to comment upon it. I mean what could they say: ”I’ll lend you some of mine” or “Just come without, what’s the big deal”? I mean it’s just another subject people don’t really care to comment upon. You can also add: ”I’m doing some serious washing and promise I’ll have clean underwear for a month, and of course change it every day.”

(Source http://news.softpedia.com/news/10-worst-excuses-to-miss-work-21906.shtml) By Ana Constantinescu


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To: sully777

Calling in sick line: "My (clock) snoozer broke."


81 posted on 01/12/2007 8:49:48 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: CJ Wolf

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82 posted on 01/12/2007 8:51:15 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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Watch out for the birds


83 posted on 01/12/2007 8:53:38 AM PST by Lucky9teen (You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.)
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Chicken...

84 posted on 01/12/2007 8:55:02 AM PST by Lucky9teen (You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.)
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Too Sick To Work
86 posted on 01/12/2007 8:59:54 AM PST by girlscout
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87 posted on 01/12/2007 9:09:47 AM PST by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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To: girlscout

Have you heard the joke about the airplane? No. Well, it was way over your head anyway.


88 posted on 01/12/2007 9:14:38 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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89 posted on 01/12/2007 9:16:33 AM PST by girlscout
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A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.


90 posted on 01/12/2007 9:17:21 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: nuke rocketeer

The two guys caught drinking battery acid will soon be charged.


91 posted on 01/12/2007 9:17:57 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: nuke rocketeer
20 Best Excuses for Calling in Sick to Work

I was sprayed by a skunk.

I tripped over my dog and was knocked unconscious.

My bus broke down and was held up by robbers.

I was arrested as a result of mistaken identity.

I forgot to come back to work after lunch.

I couldn't find my shoes.

I hurt myself bowling.

I was spit on by a venomous snake.

I totaled my wife's jeep in a collision with a cow.

A hitman was looking for me.

My curlers burned my hair and I had to go to the hairdresser.

I eloped.

My brain went to sleep and I couldn't wake it up.

My cat unplugged my alarm clock.

I had to be there for my husband's grand jury trial.

I had to ship my grandmother's bones to India.

I forgot what day of the week it was.

Someone slipped drugs in my drink last night.

A tree fell on my car.

My monkey died.

92 posted on 01/12/2007 9:18:26 AM PST by girlscout
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Two robbers with clubs went golfing, but they didn't play the fairway.


93 posted on 01/12/2007 9:18:54 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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A guy became so good with a chainsaw that he was promoted to branch manager.


94 posted on 01/12/2007 9:19:36 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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He bent over to pick up a sieve and strained himself.


95 posted on 01/12/2007 9:19:53 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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An office with many people and few electrical outlets could be in for a power struggle.


96 posted on 01/12/2007 9:20:13 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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97 posted on 01/12/2007 9:21:04 AM PST by girlscout
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98 posted on 01/12/2007 9:21:16 AM PST by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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99 posted on 01/12/2007 9:22:39 AM PST by girlscout
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100


100 posted on 01/12/2007 9:31:26 AM PST by fredhead (Where am I going....and why am I in this handbasket?)
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