CB's Sick Day Question of the Day

[cabenson]

I tried to get up for work this morning but failed miserably. To say I feel (and look) like shit would be a disservice to shit everywhere. I think I am gonna go try and cut my head off but before I do that, here is a ?OTD:

What is the best/worst excuse you have ever used when calling in sick to work or school?

My answer: About 13 years ago, I was working nights and wanted the night before Thanksgiving off so I could spend time with my then 1-yr old nephew. My request was denied so a few days later I told them my great-grandmother had passed away and I needed off for the funeral. I then went home for the weekend during which time my great-grandmother actually DID die. I had to take the folowing weekend off to go home for her real funeral. Never used that excuse again.

Comments

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

It was while I was still in college; I had a work-study job. I got creative one day and told my boss I sustained a shoulder injury while playing rugby. Oh--and I've never played rugby in my life, of course. So I had to spend a week or so hunching over in a very Igor kind of fashion.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

So I had to spend a week or so hunching over in a very Igor kind of fashion.
But...I thought you ALWAYS walked that way.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Come over here and let me crack your back, baby. :)

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!! I did look a little like Igor when I was using my cane...just prettier.

[lostingeekdom.livejournal.com]

I have problems with Asthma. So it comes handy as an excuse when I need it. All I need to do is start fake-coughing to get out of boring meeetings or class.

[amazonqueenkate.livejournal.com]

My heater in my dorm room sophomore year broke at the end of fall, and they didn't cap the pipes properly when they removed the coil to fix it, so I awoke one morning to the sound of my room filling with steam from the boilers. I had to call my professor and leave a frantic message explaining that my heater had gone biserk and I would not be at class. I ended up just being late, but making it, and I don't know if she thought I was lying to her or what, but she made me tell the whole class my horror story. And we had a private laugh about it later. (Said professor is now one of my best friends.)

Also, just another amusing story: the first day of college that particular year, that same professor made it very, very clear that the only reason she'd except us missing class was an emergency or a family death. I don't skip much, so I didn't think it'd be a problem. Except, that afternoon, my mother called to tell me my uncle had died. I started making the rounds and calling my professors, and I only left a message for this one. She called me back that night, and her comment? "Wow. Didn't mean to curse you."

Which was funny...but sad, too. Heh. She felt really bad. ^_^;

[snuffnyc.livejournal.com]

PS i love your icon. i think i am developing a mini-crush on greg. especially when he had that funny shaved side-of-his-head thing going on.

what a cutie pie!

[amazonqueenkate.livejournal.com]

Greg is totally my future husband. he doesn't know that yet, of course. But he is. :)

[bast2.livejournal.com]

i sprained my ankle putting on a girdle.

(back in the day, we always wore dresses to school).

[snuffnyc.livejournal.com]

i worked at a drug store when i was a freshman in high school (the owner was a family friend)... i told the pharmacist that i sprained my ankle mountain biking. but, the drama queen in me didn't stop there. Afraid my lie would be sniffed out, i wrapped my ankle in an ace bandage upon returning to work the next day and even went so far as to pad the inside so it looked a little swollen.

No one really inspected it closely, but it's a good thing i went through all that trouble-- the pharmacist/owner told me that day that if I hadn't wrapped it, he would have offered to wrap it for me. that woulda been weird... "uh.. OW. yeah. OW."

[sing1118.livejournal.com]

All my professors know I get migraines, so if I'm really tired, that generally coincides with a minor headache and I just say I've got a migraine. Anyone who's ever ahd one knows that you can't concentrate on anything when you've got one.

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

My best excuse was that I had a terrible case of diarrhea. It went something like this:
"This is terrible! I haven't left the bathroom in 4 hours! I'm becoming dehydrated, everything just goes right through me, I dont think I can make it today!"
(But in order for it to work properly, you really have to grunt and grown and make your voice convey a state of sweating profusely.)

No one ever questions someone who admits freely to having a terrific bout of the runs. :)

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

whoops! "groan" not "grown"

[kelbelle.livejournal.com]

Before I started getting "hospital sick," food poisoning was my go-to illness. I have used it more times than I can count at various jobs.

Now, of course, I don't get colds or the flu...I get blood transfusions.

[stephbrandes.livejournal.com]

I had to call in once because my dog had eaten a shoe string and half of it was hanging out her ass. I called in and my boss said to just yank it out. I told her I didn't want to because it could be caught on something. She wasn't too pleased. I grapped a pair of gloves and yanked the thing out, then went out and had a good time with my friends.

[stargazer1960.livejournal.com]

Never had to fib for work. CB knows I have 86 sick days compounded over the years.
I did, however, call in sick to school because the costumes weren't done for the talent show that night. I stayed home and finished sewing them and when the school called I rasped, "She has a sore throat."
Of course, I sang in the show that night. Theatre nerd!