The Book of Big Excuses

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My daughter’s daycare class has to quarantine because of a Covid exposure and I couldn’t find a babysitter to watch her today. He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association. Too many absences might result in probation or disciplinary action (plus you’ll want to save some sick days for actual illnesses and emergencies). Sims (the highest-paid journalist of his day, who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse) and Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England to be beheaded for treason).

I’ve been trying to get an appointment for weeks and a slot just opened up for tomorrow, so I’ll need to take the day off. Pick a believable holiday—it would be pretty odd to take off work for Rosh Hashanah if your boss knows you’re not Jewish, for example.

Be careful not to overuse this one or you might have to start providing doctor’s notes in the future. In spite of all of this, tomorrow is another day, the start of another week and maybe I’ll get through them all with no further recourse to the Big Book of Excuses.

Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. There are lots of things you would much rather do that may or may not involve alcohol, cake, sex, bragging on social media, cats, sofas or other soft furnishings, books, illuminated manuscripts, work (but only very occasionally), sex (again – how manly! more alcohol, poor weather (see the above), twinges from assorted limbs and The Bad Back, and finally, rampant and terminal hypochondria. Emphasize how it’s unexpected or an emergency, otherwise your boss might wonder why you didn’t mention it earlier. I have to go with my relative to our house we rent out because those tenants purposely destroyed the house and left.Just state your excuse, apologize for the late notice, and mention you’ll give more information once you have it. There is a serious investigation on my street and the police warned my family and I not to leave the house. I was driving to work and I was dropping off my friend at his bus stop, and he/she fainted in the passenger street. I'm not coming into work today one of my close friends is having suicidle thoughts and I must stay with him/her. He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies: Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage and Charles Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair.

Anyone can use this excuse since a bad back makes it hard to do anything from sitting at a desk chair to manual labor. I'm protesting against a very serious cause that my husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend truly believes in.It’s nearly impossible for your boss to confirm if you’re lying or not, and if they have kids themselves, they’ll probably be sympathetic to your cause. It’s difficult to focus on work with a severe toothache and dentist appointments can be hard to schedule, so your boss will most likely understand why you need the day off. I had no idea until he kicked me out this morning, my roommate has been spending the money for 6 months. You find out just after you arrive to register that it’s rained all night and that hard-packed trail you reccied last month now has the consistency, colour and smell of nervous cow poo. His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted ‘Brandreth’s Pills’ (a medicine that cured everything!