LOL, the Jake Blues' Defense.
"I ran out of gas! I had a flat tire! I didn't have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT I SWEAR TO GOD!!!"
Lol!! I had an employee call me at 3 a.m. once, drunk off his butt to tell me he wasn’t coming in for his 6 a.m. shift and that he was quitting.
You know how it ices and snows EVERY WINTER in DFW... same thing. “I can’t come in today because it’s a snow day.” All week long. Yet I run into the guy at CVS... he could get out to buy cigarettes.