A friend of mine got invited to a wedding a few years ago and she really didn’t want to go. After spending a few days trying to come up with an excuse, she finally settled on...I have to mind the dog. Now, they had just got a new puppy but the puppy would be 2 months old by the time the wedding was on! Well, 2 months in her care. Now, with the power of hindsight, she acknowledges it to be the worst way to get out of something ever.
Or was it?
- “Paula, I once got out of work by saying I had to be in the Paddy’s Day parade. Lies!” - Janet in Sligo on the way to work in Dublin
- “My grandmother died a good 12/13 times when I was in fourth class and had a sour faced old cow for a teacher!”
- “Hey Paula, the last time I decided I was entitled to an unnecessary day off work I told my employer I had to be home for family reasons. I said my uncle wasn't very well. He's actually been dead with the last 3 years so technically I wasn't lying!” - Andrew
- “Paula, I send a picture of my flat tire (I have multiple, in different light and weather). Haven't had it not work yet.”
- “Paula; here's my favourite {& surprisingly it works}... "Can't you see I have an excuse? I'll give it to you once I think of it". Yep, I lifted that one from an Alastair Sim film - great stuff!” - Dave, Clondalkin.
- “Paula, 2 words; feminine problems!”
“As a teenager, whenever someone would ask me if I could hang out and I didn't want to, I would say, "I'll ask my mam."
Then I'd go home and I'd say, "Hey mam, say no." And she'd say, "No."
"Sorry, my mam said no."
- “Diarrhea. Because it is so embarrassing, no one will every question you!”
Morning Paula
In Belfast so can't use the text number.
I wasn't involved in this story but the worst excuse ever was delivered to a guy I know. He's a sailor and arrived home after a stint at sea. A mate of his was supposed to book a holiday for them but didn't have the money to go on holiday. When the sailor asked him about where he had booked for them to go (really looking forward to a break) his mate said "um, no mate, I went down to the travel agents but they didn't have any holidays left."
Surely that has to win!
Colm Mc Grath
(Just heading into work, love the show)
- “Paula, while travelling, I used the excuse “I can’t eat that for religious reasons” as an excuse not to eat things offered to me – people mean well but the filth of some of the places!”
- “Food poisoning or an allergic reaction normally works Paula. In my old job, I was food poisoned every second week and allergic to absolutely everything.”
- “Hi Paula I needed time off for Electric Picnic a couple of years ago and told the boss I was having a vasectomy. Took a week off and time passed by I forgot about my excuse and was amused at his smirk when I announced that my partner was pregnant a year later #miraclebaby!”
- “Paula a fella at work said his mam died to get out of work, 7 months later his excuse to leave was that he had to pick his mam up from the airport.”
- “Hi Paula. Had to make a birds nest in third class and bring it into school. I left it at home and was so embarrassed I told my teacher that granny sat on it. Completely morto when my well intentioned mother brought it into school later that day!” - Ed in Dundrum
- “Sweetpea I can never understand people that lie to get out of doing things, well anyway I could be late for the show Monday morning as the laughing pin is gone on the giggling box in my car and my mechanic is from a little island just to the left of Thailand, well anyway he has to stay on the same time zone as Thailand because he has to phone home every morning to check on his sick neighbours hamster. The only problem is I’m going to have to wait for the bank to open because he only takes payment in Thai baht and I'm not too sure of the cost.” - Yours Truly jayo
- “Living in Galway years ago, stole a line from a play I had been to:"My husband was savaged by dogs" as my excuse for not being able to turn up for work!” - Maureen
- "My uncle is really into cars so this excuse didn't really shock me. Anyway, he told us he couldn't come to our wedding because there was a vintage car show in town that same weekend and he was planning to go."
