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Middle school boy was late because he watched his dad become a citizen.

thequejos Report

Final score:

647points

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Gabrielle Riley 2 years ago

That is by far the best excuse, congrats!

355points

This happened to me as a pupil; a very quiet, unassuming kid in our class came in to German with about five minutes of the class left.

We went to a Catholic school and the teachers were all quite strict and intimidating. Classes were usually silent, especially in junior school. When this boy came into class at the end of the lesson that day, the door flew inwards with such force that the teacher gave an audible gasp.

It had been raining heavily outside, his hair was plastered to his forehead. His blazer was dripping and sodden. He had mud caked into his trousers up to his knees, and he was breathing heavily.

The teacher exclaimed, ‘Brendan! What happened?’ We all stared up at him in shocked silence. This quiet, unassuming little boy let out a big sigh and just said, ‘I took a shortcut.’ And went straight to his seat.

That line became iconic in our school for years afterwards.

lestat85 , Ahmed akacha Report

Final score:

631points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

This is hilarious..

255points

"Sorry Bohemian Rhapsody came on just as I parked." - My art teacher when he was about 5:55 minutes late.

Deeberer , Frank Albrecht Report

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631points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago (edited)

Thats a valid excuse...Freddie approved. Mercury certified..Queen stamped.

408points

A kid missed my first period class one morning, but was in school later that day. When I asked him why he hadn't arrived in time for my course, he said his cow was birthing its calf that morning, so he'd picked being in the barn over English. Made sense to me. His essays weren't going to win any ribbons at the county fair, but his calf could.

BobosBigSister , Olga Kravchuk Report

Final score:

618points

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Dan 2 years ago

Never give up on a student

214points

Former student here.

"Sorry, boss, my stepdad tried to [take our lifes] last night and I had to deal with the cops".

Professor just looked at me for a moment and said "....dude do you want to like, go grab a drink and talk about this after class?"

Man, my English prof was a bro when I was in college.

DoughnutMcCoy Report

Final score:

599points

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Demi Zwaan 2 years ago

So we can't say "kill" but "take our lifes" is fine? Ridiculous.

251points

When I was student teaching, I was late because there was bunch chickens in the middle of the road. They wouldn't move at all. This is in the middle of a city of 200,000 people. Freaking chickens.

I finally get to school and profusely apologize to my mentor teacher and I told her why I was late thinking it sounded ridiculous. She said, "yeah, those chickens are f**king a**holes, they surrounded my car in the McDonalds parking lot last year. Dont worry about."

Makenshine , Saray Khadangan Report

Final score:

546points

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HotDog Water 2 years ago

chicken street gangs are out of control these days

412points

Told me he got pulled over by the cops for wobbly driving on his bike and they thought he was drunk. Turned out he was just dodging all the slugs on the street.

Fortisvol , Danny Nee Report

Final score:

522points

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coleby worthen 2 years ago

I took the shell off my racing snail thinking it would make it faster, if anything is made it more sluggish…… I’ll see myself out

323points

When I was in college, my psych professor told us that the only excuse for being late was a funeral procession. Any other reason, you wouldn't be allowed to come in.

A few weeks into the semester, I was headed from one building to another, which involved crossing the main road. Lo and behold, there was one very long funeral procession going by. I got a short video of it as proof, then stood on the sidewalk to let it go by.

Unfortunately, the procession made me five minutes late to class. I knocked on the door, and the professor came over to start to tell me off. I showed her the video.

"Well I'll be damned, c'mon in."

Jupichan , adrianna geo Report

Final score:

518points

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Demi Zwaan 2 years ago

What a horrible professor. People like that shouldn't be teaching.

274points

#10

She had to take her sister to school and drive her mom to rehab. She was always late to class because her mom just wanted to sleep in. Problem was if the mom was late or did not go she would have violated her probation and gone to prison. I never marked her late. If she missed anything important she could come in at lunch or after school to make it up.

Rm156 , Mira Kireeva Report

Final score:

515points

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greenbean 2 years ago (edited)

This is infuriating when kids are made to be responsible for irresponsible adults under whos care they actually are. And noone cares. Cool the teacher didn't cause further problems but the situation is NOT OK. It shouldn't be happening!!!

390points

#11

Hmmm, I had a student whose father had died and had not done any homework or prep for the geography class, from what I heard the teacher scolded him for not doing so but the student didn’t want to say anything (presumably sensitive issue) so his best friend shouted at the teacher “DONT YOU HAVE ANY SHAME, HIS FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT” and the teacher said “I don’t care”, there was an audible gasp and I was in the next room.

Needless to say that teacher is no longer employed here.

19you1 Report

Final score:

505points

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Dan 2 years ago

Horrible teacher

358points

#12

Not me but in my class.

This was in College, a student turned in work late after not showing up for two classes. Two classes amounted to a full week so it was noticeable.

Professor looked at him and said "I hope somebody passed away for you to be this late"

"DOES MY DAD COUNT????"

Honestly I've always heard you can hear a pin drop and never really thought anything of it, but yeah you could hear a f**king pin cut through the air after that.

whereegosdare84 , Adrian Swancar Report

Final score:

474points

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Andy Acceber 2 years ago

Professor is just asking for trouble. Who would say something like that?

334points

#13

This one happened to a classmate when we were in college training to be teachers. She missed a really important class, came for just the last 10 minutes or so because her neighbor knocked on her door while in active labor asking for help a little while before she was supposed to leave for class. Classmate walked back to neighbor's house with preggo neighbor and delivered her baby in the living room while on the phone to 911. Paramedics came and mom and baby were fine, but classmate needed to go home and shower/change first because she was covered in blood.

Sheldon_Turtle , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

472points

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Chicken Nugget 2 years ago

i- what-

127points

#14

Had a Sociology prof in college who was never late for anything. One day, we showed up for class and he wasn't there. After five minutes or so, we are reading the handbook to find out what level of Professor he was and found that he was an Associate professor and entitled to ten minutes wait. A few seconds before his time expired, a voice came from under his desk saying "Today we are going to discuss withdrawn personalities." He conducted the whole class from under his desk.

endadaroad Report

Final score:

469points

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Harrison Miller 2 years ago

That is hilarious

259points

#15

Kid was late to school and had to miss a very important football game. The reason? His fat Pug fell asleep on his phone. The pug’s fat rolls muffled his alarm.

tip52 , JC Gellidon Report

Final score:

453points

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lucygoosey0903 2 years ago

That's pug dogs for ya! Adorable trouble makers!

159points

#16

I was one of about 20 kids who were late to school. We showed up at the school office as a group and when questioned why we were late, we said "The school bus blew up".

They questioned "So the engine blew up"

The kids "No, the whole bus, in flames. It blew up"

There was much conference between the teachers, all of them thinking we embellished the story. Next thing you know, one of the admin staff has the news website open, very obvious image of an entire bus on fire with a bunch of kids in our school uniform standing in front of it. Our late slip for class read "School bus blew up".

AusPB90 , ICBUS07-30 Report

Final score:

429points

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Susan Bosse 2 years ago

Don't you think the school would have been well aware before these kids even reached campus? I mean, they would have had to send another bus or some mode of transport to get them to the school from the site of the bus explosion.

210points

#17

I had a six year old turn up late to her lesson and blurt out "sorry I was late, I had to colour in a bunny!"

Seems fair.

BlossomBelow , ftmeade Report

Final score:

389points

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Dave P 2 years ago

for a child that age, this is very important and a good excuse.

206points

#18

My auto teacher let me practice removing and adding the tires on his vehicle. The next morning it was about 20 minutes into first period and no sign of him. He comes running into the classroom out of breath and his hair is all messed up. He points at me and says "YOU!!!! What is a torque wrench used for???" I respond with "I don't know." He says "I know you dont know!!!" Turns out one of his tires came off while driving down the highway.

ethnicjello Report

Final score:

380points

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Signe Manat Hansen 2 years ago

That's his fault for not checking the work

336points

#19

Student told me he couldn’t do the work because he was delivering oil from 3PM until 11PM. In middle school. He wasn’t lying. Dad has broken his both of shoulders and one clavicle so his grandma and pregnant mom were “switching off driving” (pretty sure he was doing most of it at night) and he was hooking the tanks to the oil. I called all his teachers and had his work load lightened and got permission for him to come in an hour late each day as he was providing the only income for his family of eight, as he was the oldest. Tutored him so he could pass seventh grade. I paid cost of oil only for years until I moved out of the area.

backaritagain Report

Final score:

371points

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Evil Little Thing 2 years ago

What kind of oil needs to be delivered, and what are these tanks that need hooking up?

53points

#20

Not a student, but one of my Teaching Assistants when I ran a pre-school in West Philly... 'sorry I missed yesterday, my friend shot my mom'. Naturally, I'm a little speechless... 'oh no it's ok, he was AIMING FOR SOMEONE ELSE'

Scoutnjw , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

367points

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Loty 2 years ago

Yup, sounds like West Philly.

135points

#21

Not a teacher, but a kid walked I to my class one day and literally just said "sorry I'm late, I didn't want to be here". He wasn't wrong I suppose.

Scally59 , Daiga Ellaby Report

Final score:

355points

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My O My 2 years ago

We all had those days

145points

#22

A kid came in late from lunch, but handed me a half dozen fresh tamales from his family’s tamaleria, and I was 9 months pregnant, so obviously he didn’t get in trouble.

sarahsuebob Report

Final score:

348points

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Oopsydaisy 2 years ago

Tamaleria. I did not even know that was a thing. My spell heckler certainly doesn't know it's a thing. Great word!

135points

Parmeisan 2 years ago

Ok I don't know if "spell heckler" was intentional or not but I'm calling it that forever now

52points

Bash 2 years ago

Wait til you hear about carnecerías or taquerías… Spanish has words, too 😉

13points

BasedWang 2 years ago

Most definately a thing... And one of the most magical places

10points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

I feel awful for you if you've never had the experience of consuming delicious, handmade tamales from a a tamaleria. Or, even better, homemade tamales made under the supervision of an old Mexican abuelita by an entire family at a tamalada, or a social gathering of family members and friends where everyone gathers together to make and consume tamales. I grew up with that being a part of my holiday tradition and nothing will ever taste as good as those tamales. The best thing is that you usually end up making so many that each family unit that takes part gets to take home several dozen tamales so you have enough to last you throughout the holidays; also, adults are always served coffee and kids Mexican hot chocolate with the tamales eaten during the tamalada, and someone always brings along a huge batch of homemade buñuelos for people to eat as dessert.

8points

CelticElff 2 years ago

I love this, "spell heckler", and I'd like to borrow it. We also call autocorrect "Otto".

5points

Leslie Gallardo 2 years ago

From Mexico here,,yes that's an actual word that we use along with taqueria,carniceria,panaderia,😂

3points

Kai David 2 years ago

Never heard of a pizzeria?

3points

Dawn Rodriguez 2 years ago

It’s an actual thing. Common in the US Western states and in Mexico.

0points

Nancy Troyer 2 years ago

I have lived in Texas most of my life and eaten plenty of tamales and today is the first time I have ever seen the word tamaleria. And as with others, I am stealing spell heckler. That is the most awesome name for it!

0points

Daniel Alicea 2 years ago

Must not speak Spanish, you or your spell checker. Tamaleria pops up fine on mine.

-1point

Sam rice 2 years ago

Hispanic. A store where people make and sell tamales

-1point

Dave P 2 years ago

Kid is smart, bribe the teacher when late. When I was in junior high, we had a student who came late sometimes, but never got late marks on his report. The kids father would give teachers who were nice a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label for a Holiday Gift, and a second one as a end of the year gift. Teachers who weren't nice got some little nothing. Teachers knew to be nice and get some good booze

12points

Drew Schrepel 2 years ago

I miss making tamales around Christmas with my late wife's family (she was Mexican-American). They all ghosted me within the year after her death. We were married for over 19 years and I was known as Uncle Drew or Tio. Now I am 53, alone and depressed and I don't know how to make friends anymore. My late wife was my best friend too.

7points

Hagen Radcliffe 2 years ago

Oh god Drew, you ripped my heart out. Maybe try reaching out to one of the younger nieces/nephews. I’m sure they miss you too, maybe it’ll get some talking going. At least they should tell you what the problem is!!! Good god, 19 years deserves an answer at least. PLEASE try to get them to talk to you. I promise it’ll get better.

2points

Juno French 2 years ago

I'm sorry, Drew.

1point

Anna roberts 2 years ago

Try church. A lot of festivals are held here in Az. by hispanic people, maybe try the internet for you area?

0points

Memere 2 years ago

I absolutely love tamales, would definitely give the kid a pass, pregnant or not!

3points

D K 2 years ago

*Homer Simpson voice* Mmmm… tamales….

2points

Dat one frog 2 years ago

Why ru 9 months prego and still working??

2points

No you can't have my name 2 years ago

Hi, this is America where the only workers who have protection are the richest ones and the rest of us get two fingers.

5points

Rebecca Vestal 2 years ago

I'd tell this kid anytime you want to be late and bring me tamales I'm up for it!

1point

Felicia Dale 2 years ago

Yum!

1point

GramDB 2 years ago

YUM!

0points

backatya 2 years ago (edited)

you're the kind of teacher that would let our country down and give up the secrets for a tamale. Quit feeding your face

0points

Vladtehwood , Daniele Levis Pelusi Report

#23

Bear in the backyard. No access gate. Animal control had to tranq it from the room and drag it through the house. Made the news. Got to retake the test I missed after sending her the news article.

Final score:

337points

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My O My 2 years ago

But did you pet the tranquilized bear?

205points

#24

I was the student...my neighbor had a really social goat, and she figured out how to escape her pen in order to come over and hang out. She escaped and followed me to the bus stop, and when the bus came, she tried to follow me onto it. I couldn't actually get on the bus without her being right behind me, so I had to get off, bring her home, and call my dad to bring me to school.

shoppy33 , Nati Melnychuk Report

Final score:

336points

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Chicken Nugget 2 years ago

Is your name mary?

128points

#25

Had a college algebra teacher show up late or no show almost every class. The other students thought it was hilarious because if there’s no teacher for 15 mins you can leave. So we had no class a huge chunk of the semester and it really aggravated me. This is preyoutube and I was not understanding the math at all and the girl trying to tutor me didn’t speak English well and my grade for the first time ever in my life was suffering (and I’m paying for the class)

One day, teacher showed up about 20 mins late and I’m one of the few people who didn’t take off early and he angry walks in, slams his briefcase on the desk and says “I apologize for this semester. I have cancer. I’m dying” and then left.

8I

..I don’t know what happened to him tbh

dausy Report

Final score:

309points

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Samantha Lomb 2 years ago

This is the fault of the college for not putting him on sick leave and getting another instructor

388points

#26

Not teacher, but pupil. I was in a car crash on my way to school. About 5 cars involved because some jerk decided to overtake us since we slowed down coming to a turn. So a trip to the hospital to get checked, and then school 3 hours late. I had small cuts all over my face from glass flying everywhere and had a really sore shoulder, but my teachers wouldn't believe me until police showed up because they forgot to get a statement from me. Apparently some of the other involved people died and the jerk got 8 years in prison.

jogfx Report

Final score:

294points

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Oopsydaisy 2 years ago

I would have just gone home. Shock makes you really tired. Poor kid probably needed to sleep.

238points

#27

A guy in my college class missed class one day. The next day he came in with his eye covered up and medical paperwork in hand. Apparently he got pecked in the eye by a chicken.

BrrToe , Michael Anfang Report

Final score:

293points

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Daria B 2 years ago

Link knows not to mess with Chickens

130points

#28

In my hometown if you walked into anywhere late and said the phrase "Sorry, grain train" you were never challenged. It was extremely common for 50+ carriage trains to run through the middle of town.

Zeruvi , Dan Loran Report

Final score:

290points

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago

My middle school was on railroad tracks with the main building on one side and all of the sports fields, parking lots, etc on the other. "I had gym last period" was an accepted excuse to being late to classes because it was quite common to get caught by a train. They built a pedestrian tunnel under the tracks after I graduated HS. Side note - its hard to learn with train whistles going off because there's a school sidewalk crossing the tracks.

10points

#29

My best story ever! I taught in a hard core inner city school. My student comes in at 10:30. I was like, dude, where were you. Oh, my bus was late. Yah, no. Why would your bus be three hours late. Well Miss, there was a drive by shooting. OMG are you okay? Someone shot at the bus? No ma’am, a kid shot a gun out of the bus. We got pulled over. The cops had to search everyone. The kid with the gun was literally the last kid to be searched. True story, you can’t make this s**t up.

lotusblossom60 Report

Final score:

281points

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An Co 2 years ago

First, the it is ALWAYS the last to be searched because you don't stop until they find it. Second, cops keep searching even after they find a gun because they do not assume there is only one gun.

117points

#30

We had an exam in my class and the teacher got a message from a student saying that he was going to be late because his car had a flat tire (the student was known to party), the teacher didn't think it could be true, so as a joke the teacher asked him to bring the tire back. He brought the flat tire back in the middle of the exam. Needless to say, the professor didn't expect that.

Sapang , TireZoo Report

Final score:

271points

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coleby worthen 2 years ago

That teachers joke fell a little flat…. Ok I’m done

233points

#31

Obligatory I'm not a teacher. My Dad, who was a teacher , was late himself because his car got surrounded by sheep and he couldn't get out. Joys of living in Wales.

fuggleruggler Report

Final score:

265points

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

Also live in Wales, rurally. Had this happen before too, and sheep crossing (that road has railway crossing type lights for that one), loose sheep delaying the bus, late for class because of cow blocking the road, sheep on the rail line made me miss my train connection in Cardiff. Places get used to that one, it's so common it's rarely a lie.

101points

#32

Flock of wild turkeys in the road. Not always school, but this happened more than once in my life.

For those of you who have never found yourselves in this situation: there is no way out of it. Wild turkeys will move when they damn well decide to do so, and only then.

lizardgal10 , Mikkel Bergmann Report

Final score:

253points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

Well well well...if its not the chicken gang then its the Wild Turkey Mafia....either poultry has the right of way

193points

#33

When I was in HS our apartment in Brooklyn, NY was broken into. Thankfully nobody was home, but all of our electronics were stolen. My computer (had a desktop with a big screen at the time) was also stolen which was connected to the same outlet as my alarm clock. Reset the time and went to bed not realizing I needed to reset the alarm too, showed up to my Sat SAT prep about 2 hrs late, explained to the teacher what happened, and she met with me during the week to go over materials. She was a rockstar

Karapuzio Report

Final score:

248points

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

AWESOMENESS

77points

homeawayfromhogwarts Report

#34

I taught college English. A student suddenly stopped showing up and wasn't responding to emails. I googled him just to make sure he hadn't died or something, and I found his mugshot. He was in jail.

Final score:

233points

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

Oops

87points

#35

A kid’s apartment burned down overnight. He was a little late, but still came.

arcant12 , Daniel Tausis Report

Final score:

231points

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Andy Acceber 2 years ago

Sometimes, kids don't know how to handle trauma. There was a horrible situation at the middle school my mom worked at where a mom died. Her son went to the bus stop and went to school anyway. He didn't know what else to do.

209points

#36

One of my organ students told me he was late arriving for his lesson because he got stuck behind a lengthy funeral procession en route to the cemetery.

I knew he was telling the truth because I had played the organ for the service earlier that morning and the church was packed.

Back2Bach , panyawat auitpol Report

Final score:

228points

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Vanta Black 2 years ago

How long was that procession if the teacher was able to make it to the lesson on time after playing at the funeral but the kid was late?

53points

#37

Taught a group of seniors first period. It was towards the end of the year. I had a class of around 30 and only 5 were there when the bell rang. Halfway through class the rest of them show up. They went out to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and brought me some back. All was forgiven.

SwansonsLoveChild Report

Final score:

227points

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Me Oh My 2 years ago

As it should have been.

81points

#38

The child missed my first-hour class, notes said car accident on the way to school and would be coming late. The kid comes for 2nd hour, has pictures on his phone of the ROLLOVER accident! WTF, kid, go home. Rest. Take care of yourself.

Sheldon_Turtle , bluesbby Report

Final score:

222points

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Aileen Grist 2 years ago

Sometimes just carrying on as normal is the best way to deal with trauma for children (and adults)

128points

#39

My best friend and I used to roller skate to school and one day we both forgot to put our shoes in our backpacks. So we skated to the vice-principal’s office and got to skip first period to go home for shoes.

We stopped at Taco Bell on the way back for breakfast, because we figured we were already excused.

Grizelda_H , Anthony A Report

Final score:

211points

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Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

When you need a taco, you NEED a taco.

118points

#40

“MTV paid me $50 to fill my backpack with cement and carry it around for the day.” I accepted that excuse. Student later regretted it, as a replacement backpack and college textbooks far exceeded $50. But he got his moment of fame and I didn’t penalize him for his tardy. Gotta live a little.

Edit: someone found a newspaper article on this. Turns out it was $200. He “earned” $100 for the first day and $100 when he returned the next day. I remembered $50, but it was 19 years ago. So ha, I was RIGHT to believe him! He still lost all his stuff (thanks cement), and I remember him telling me it wasn’t worth it.

surgicalasepsis , Luis Quintero Report

Final score:

201points

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DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago

My ma would've hit me with the rock hard cement

115points

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#41

Im not the teacher, but we we’re told that he had a paramedic student who on their way to write their final exam rolled their car into a creek picked up whatever books they had out of their car and ran the rest of the way to class. Obviously got there late and in tears. You better believe they had a different exam date.

Gambachino Report

Final score:

54points

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Samantha Lomb 2 years ago

I had a student show up for exams that had been hit by a bus the day before. Arm in a cast and high as a kite on pain killers. I sent them home with an incomplete which let them reschedule the exam and take it next semester

35points

#42

"My car got hit by lightning." It did, in the school parking lot. Her tires were melted to the pavement. She had to go out and deal with the tow truck/call her parents/etc. It was pretty dramatic.

mamacrocker , Michael D Report

Final score:

49points

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Dan 2 years ago

Hope she wasn't hurt

11points

#43

In high school, I biked to class. One day I hit a rock and ate absolute s**t. I obviously got to class late. Before I could say a word my teacher stopped the class and said “Thank you for finally joining us, why are you so late?” I raised my heavily bloodied hands and elbows. It must’ve looked bad because she audibly gasped and rushed me to the school nurse apologizing nonstop the entire way.

DatPunk15 Report

Final score:

48points

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malenchki 2 years ago

At least she apologised?

21points

#44

My sophomore year in high school, dad died. I missed a week of school. When I got back, I tried to turn in my English assignment that was due the week I was out. Teacher wouldn't accept it said it was late. I told her my father had just died and that's why I was out. She said, "I know. But it's still late". Went home told my mother. The next day, the principal, my guidance counselor and the super independent had all contacted my teacher to rip her a new one. She had to accept my assignment. She was salty about that the rest of the year.

Down4Whatever212 Report

Final score:

46points

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Signe Manat Hansen 2 years ago

The super independent

31points

#45

I was the student. When I was in college I opened my front door to see S.W.A.T. teams and DEA agents outside of my house. The one who looked at me was holding some kind of AR. I went back inside.

From what I heard, there was a multiple-sting operation that happened around my town and my neighbors place got raided.

I missed half of my classes that day.

Animecat1 Report

Final score:

45points

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FanOfWeird 2 years ago

0.o

8points

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#46

I was the only high schooler on our school bus one winter. The other detail important to this story is that we had the oldest model bus that wasn't in the best mechanical shape. It had one of those mechanically operated doors, it would shoot out a plume of black smoke every time it started, and just looked much less fancy than all the other buses the school had.

Anyway, one winter it was so cold that the diesel engine stopped working. The bus driver said the cold made the diesel in the fuel lines "gel up." I have no idea if that's accurate, but either way the bus wouldn't start. Fortunately we were only 5 miles from the school and all the kids had been picked up already. So they just radioed another, newer, bus to loop back around and pick us up. The bus driver had radioed the elementary school but completely forgot to let the high school know. So I show up to class and the teacher asks why I was late.

I said, "the cold caused the fuel lines to gel up in the school bus" repeating exactly what the bus driver told us. But I was the only high schooler on that bus so no other students were there to back up my story. The teacher didn't believe me, and instead of just calling the main office to verify my story she mocked me in front of the whole class saying "it's not possible for fuel to freeze in the cold." And everyone in the class agreed with her saying that I was a bad liar and laughed at how dumb my story was.

Ultimately the office did let her know about the bus after she tried giving me a detention, but the embarrassment is still there and she never gave me an apology.

BinaryPeach Report

Final score:

45points

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HotDog Water 2 years ago

At 15F, diesel starts to gel....

32points

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#47

Not a teacher but a friend said his house blew away. Apparently... tornado.

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44points

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Vanta Black 2 years ago

"Apparently it was a tornado. No idea if there really was one because I didn't check the records, there were no warnings, and we weren't close enough friends for me to go see what, if anything, was left of his house."

7points

#48

(not a teacher but...) at the end of year 11 on our last day, we had a mini awards ceremony, one of which was best excuse for being late. one boy in my year had got his shoes wet and they hadn’t dried by the morning so he took the next logical step to dry them: putting them in the oven.

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44points

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Andy Acceber 2 years ago

He must be on my the wavelength as my dad -- who once wanted to microwave his cellphone after he dropped it in a puddle. Teenage me louded objected until my mom came in the room and told my father in no uncertain terms that he wouldn't be doing that. For the record, my dad has a doctorate... lol

29points

#49

After 9/11, my small-town high school received bomb threats every week for two months, and they decided to make us attend school on a Saturday. Myself and about 5 others showed up for our classes, and every teacher said something like "I can't wait for the excuses on Monday."

Most of the excuses were something along the lines of "family plans" or what not, but one kid was made read his dad's note aloud to the class because our first period teacher thought it was hilarious. In the most down south accent you can imagine, it went something like "my son ain't too smart, but he knows you ain't supposed to get punished for someone else being a dumbass. Bought him a six pack, so he was drunk. Y'all can f*ck off".

I wish we had smart phones to record back then so I could share it.

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Adrian 2 years ago

Parental support is a wonderful thing.

18points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#50

“The cows got out. I had to wrangle them all up back into their pen.”

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Gabrielle Riley 2 years ago

#farmlife

18points

#51

Not me, but one of my good friends:

She went to the Royal Military College of Canada, where they wear their uniforms and there are often tourists visiting the campus.

Apparently, it was completely normal to be waylaid by tourists looking to have their photos taken with students in uniform that all they had to say when they walked in late was "tourists" and the professors would let it slide.

She always wondered how many family photos she was actually in over her time spent there.

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39points

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Evil Little Thing 2 years ago

This is so weird

19points

#52

I came in late after getting my ruptured appendix taken out and still couldn’t walk as fast as usual. English teacher locks the door and tells me to go to the office but I already had a doctors note in hand. I kept knocking until he opened it and let him yell for a few minutes before showing him I got out of surgery like two days prior and didn’t even HAVE to show up for another week or two. He shut up pretty quick.

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38points

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

Daft question - why did you show up at all?

42points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#53

I was the student... I was walking to school and two of our cats were following me. I had to round them up and take them home. My dad wrote me a note for my lateness, which included the phrase “animal show-and-tell day”.
Here are pictures of the cats. The two that followed me were the orange one sitting on the dishwasher door and the tabby underneath it (better picture of her included). Fun fact: all but one cat (the tabby in the middle) had the same mother.

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Dan 2 years ago

Thanks for the pictures 🐱

21points

#54

I teach Primary school (Year 4) in suburbia in Western Australia. Kids were late because they found a baby camel.

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37points

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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

Awwww

13points

#55

School sporting event. Kid on our team was late because someone stole his windshield wipers and it was snowing out. Kept having to pull over to the side of the road and wipe off his windshield.

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36points

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Memere 2 years ago

That was a jerk-a$$ thing to do. I bet another player on the team sabotaged him to get off the bench!

10points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#56

I am a teacher but this happened when I was a student. Does it count?

In high school a kid came late to history class. He was a joker so when someone asked him where he had been, he goes “I was kidnapped.” Everyone laughed, until he goes “no really”.

Turns out 2 guys kidnapped him and tossed him into the back of the minivan he was using for his morning paper route. They drove him around while they robbed something. I can’t remember what happens after. I think they just drove the van somewhere and got away.

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36points

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Evil Little Thing 2 years ago

Nice of then to drop him off at school though.

11points

#57

"I'm Pink"

A fair-skinned student (age 10) went with a friend to the Holi festival at a nearby Hindu temple where she was covered with red powder and dyed bright red from head to toe. Her mother, another teacher at the school, had made her sit for hours in the bathtub to soak it off, but even after another round of early morning shower scrubbing, she arrived at school a pleasant shade of pink. (Technically, she wasn't late, but she stayed in her mother's classroom until the bell rang)

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34points

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

Well here in India after Holi everybody who comes to school has their whole body covered in colors even after lots of baths

25points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#58

Obligatory not a teacher, but I'm an admin at a music school.

I had a mom frantically call me and let me know her daughter would probably be late or miss their guitar lesson in a couple hours cuz she couldn't find the kid. I was just kind of like "uhhhhhhh okay...well I will let her teacher know".

Got another call about an hour later from the same mom. She found her kid, but apparently the daughter went to a friend's house and decided to dye her hair green??? They lived pretty closeby, so I did let them know they could still come in for their lesson. Mom said she would call me back and let me know in a minute or two...never called back.

Her daughter showed up for her lesson about 5 minutes late with this bright green coiffure. I gotta admit it looked rad as f**k, but also kind of a confusing thing to be an audience to the buildup.

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34points

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Anjali Cooper 2 years ago

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#59

I remember in high school another student asked our history teacher this question. Our teachers answer was that he had this student run in 20 minutes late not a say a word and turn the class room tv on and start flipping through channels. When the teacher asked him what he was doing, the late student said the country is under attack, I figured you hadn't heard as my dad started to yell at me to return home when I was just down the block. The student explained he went to see what his dad wanted back at home and that his dad hugged him and showed him the news before driving him to school late. Our teacher explained the only acceptable reason he has ever let anyone show up late was 9/11 or a personal tragedy.

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

Everything was canceled in NYC that day….

6points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#60

Student here, I headed into school early to get some studying done in the library before my night class. I was one exit away when I was caught in a 3 car accident. Most of the expressway afterwards was gridlock with only one lane left open. I did eventually make it into my lab class 15 minutes late, with a few scrapes and bruises. My professors reaction was simply "Oh that was you!"

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Dan 2 years ago

Did they crash into you?

9points

#61

Me. Woke up and went into my kitchen completely black with soot and full of smoke. My mother left the clothes iron on overnight. My school uniform was destroyed. I was late to school by 25 minutes and was the only person not wearing our uniform. Damage to the kitchen was approximately 35,000.

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31points

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Oopsydaisy 2 years ago

Your poor mum. I bet she was just exhausted.

18points

#62

A student was absent.. I asked why, someone yells out he got shot by a cross bow... Turned out it was true... Kid was away because he got shot by a cross bow.

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30points

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My O My 2 years ago

Oh no, it's ok. The shooter was aiming for someone else.

52points

#63

I was leaving Nellis AFB with 20 minutes to get to my final presentation last semester when my wheel peace’d out into the desert. I kept my vehicle from flipping and got it to the shoulder where I pulled one of three usable lug studs and pulled it through on the other side. I got the wheel back on and hobbled to UNLV campus only 10 minutes late. I gave my presentation and did alright, albeit covered in grease and drenched in sweat. My hub was toasted but the semester was saved.

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29points

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Aqsa Azam 2 years ago

"My hub was toasted but the semester was saved." What an iconic line!

6points

#64

“I got hit by a bus.” Turns out, he got hit by a bus.

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29points

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panic 2 years ago

who could've guessed

8points

#65

I'm not a teacher but when I was at uni I was really late because I had a dream that my lecturer phoned me and told me that the class was cancelled.

I told her and she laughed, but because it was so ridiculous she knew I wasn't lying.

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#66

I’m not a teacher but I have a good story. So my class was doing a pretty important debate in which everyone had to participate. So this one kid( I’ll just call him Ron) didn’t just show up late to the class he missed the class altogether but in the next period he showed up with his explanation. His family owns all kind off animals and it turns out a baby zebra was born and eaten by vultures in the same morning.

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25points

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Bash 2 years ago

“I’ll call him Ron” and then never actually use the name in the post 😆

20points

#67

Kid was with his girlfriend in the hospital after accidentally giving her something with peanut butter. She was allergic.

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True crime obsessed 2 years ago

0.o

2points

#68

A student of mine this year found out an interview she gave was quoted in an article of TIME. That seems like a good reason to go tell everyone on your way to class. I let it slide.

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23points

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Kate Johnson 2 years ago

Ooh, I had a letter to the editor of Newsweek get published once, and I still think that's one of the cooler things I've ever done!

3points

#69

So this happened to me. Me and my friends were on lunch and kicking around a makeshift tinfoil ball to pass the time. Somebody kicked it to me and I put my full force behind volleying it back into the air. My right shoe (converse, half a size too big) came off my foot and landed on top of a three storey building. Had to call my Mom to come collect me so I could go home and change shoes, she was extremely pissed.

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23points

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Vanta Black 2 years ago

She couldn't bring the shoes to you because...?

5points

#70

My bus hit a bird and the whole windshield was cracked. We had to wait for another bus to pick us up.

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22points

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Zane! 2 years ago

Hope that bird is ok

3points

#71

This was me as a student, my parents thought I get President's Day off so they didn't wake me up.

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22points

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Rugchairclockdog 2 years ago

lol

3points

#72

Not a teacher, but I was hit by a car on my bike to uni and my prof was more than understanding as to why I was late.

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Lawrence Thatcher 2 years ago

I got the day off in elementary school when I got hit by a pedestrian on my bike. Some girl ran into me, knocked me off my bike, and I had to go get stitches. It was also my birthday.

10points

#73

Not a teacher, but a kid came into class a little beat up and almost an hour late. He accidentally drove off a cliff while texting and his phone was broken so he walked to the closest place where he could get some help. (He was sent to the hospital almost immediately, and he was okay except for a concussion and bruising)

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22points

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

DON’T TEXT AND DRIVE!

37points

#74

A friend of mine at school texted the teacher a photo of the screen at the airport showing his flight was delayed.

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22points

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Zane! 2 years ago

Why would you need a plane to go to school?

1point

#75

I had an instance that there was a traffic jam, because of a duck. A. Godanm duck.

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20points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

I knew I would find a duck somewhere here causing traffic jams...after chicken and turkey we had to have a duck...and a single bad ass duck that dont give a duck...

35points

#76

Not a teacher, but a student who was late. A friend gave me lift on his moped. He hit corner to fast and we slid off it. We drove back to my house, my mum fixed both our trousers and we made it only 20 min late to class. It was PE and so we had to wear shorts and the teacher could see our scratched up legs.

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#77

A little off topic but in 8th grade a friend of mine turned in a homework late because her dog literally ate her homework. She even brought a note from her parents.

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18points

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Sareaesque 2 years ago

Lass in Geography had the same happen to her, she brought the remains in as evidence.

10points

#78

My car froze shut. We had an ice storm and this was before the fancy power locks and keyless entry were a thing.

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17points

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

Fancy power locks and keyless entry won't be of any use when everything is frozen. Including your entire door, the brakes and the engine.

14points

#79

UK - a student couldn't submit an assignment on time as 'the wifi was down on the Megabus'.

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16points

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DaVo 2 years ago

What if the kid didn't have internet at home?

18points

#80

I had a teacher who showed up about halfway through the class. Apparently her car had slid (intense snowstorm the night before) and she had walked the last mile or so.

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1010011 1001110 2 years ago (edited)

dang ice

3points

#81

Had to walk my cow.

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1010011 1001110 2 years ago

um what

5points

#82

Well, I was the one late, but my History teacher asked why I arrived when there was about 5 minutes left of class, I simply said I was attacked by a dog and had to take my route all the way back home to bandage myself and had to walk all the way back to school. It was an interesting experience since the dog was a younger one with extremely new teeth.

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#83

My goats got out.

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KitFrey 2 years ago

Fair

3points

#84

Thought it was Saturday.

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Zane! 2 years ago

That happens a LOT

7points

#85

The principal hold him up, talking about a fishing spot the kid's father had recommanded.

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#86

“I was eating watermelon”

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1010011 1001110 2 years ago

this is a perfectly reasonable excuse

6points

#87

I was a student, the bus driver drove over a small boulder and it got wedged in the wheel well. We had to park and wait for a new bus to transfer into.

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12points

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Atchaco-Leigh 2 years ago

late to first lesson and my teacher asked why. I replied I had a small hole in my tongue and it was bleeding badly so I had to get it stitched. (trained nurses and GP's on campus becauses its a boarding school). They didn't believe me so I showed them my tongue. They didn't ask me any questions during the lessons.

1point

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Adrian 2 years ago

Me. I had a very important exam at uni. I was late drove into the car park, out of the car, slammed the car door, raced off to the exam. Realised I'd left my notes and text books in car and its an open book exam. Damn. Raced back to car: its locked and keys are in the car. Root around in nearby garden bed and find decent sized rock aiming to break the cheapest and smallest window, the triangular one on back door. Whack! no good so whack harder. It works window breaks but I'd done it so hard my hand with the rock went through too and badly gashed my thumb and back of my hand. No time to lose. I race into the exam room dripping copious amounts of blood. Examiner races over and tries to find first-aid kit - can't find one. Strange as this is also the sports hall, but got a heap of paper towels and wrap that around my hand. Works for a while, but eventually blood starts oozing out and getting smeared all over the exam paper. Professor was so shocked I was allowed to sit exam again.

41points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I should think so!

8points

Kanuli 2 years ago

Not me, but 2 or 3? Schoolmates. They even had 2 days off. :) Reason: they found a swamp corpse on the way to school.

11points

Jo Choto 2 years ago

I was part of a program to try and help young students (12-15) with issues (legal, behaviour, drug/alcohol, non-attendance, etc.) make it to graduation. One girl just kept not showing up and when she did, she would fall asleep. Turned out that her mother was a night sex worker who had previously been jailed for leaving her minor daughter unattended all night every night. So she took her daughter to work with her every night, which involved standing on the streets all night. Kid was exhausted. It was so, so sad.

9points

zububonsai 2 years ago (edited)

"I'm sorry I'm late but I almost overran Jackie Chan with my bike." a girl running into the class my cousin attended, in 2003, in Görlitz (small town in Saxony, Germany) She usually goes to school by bicycle , she was rather last minute, it's 7a.m. skids around the corner on a pedestrian walk and. Jackie Chan (yes) walks and reacts like the pro he is and dives to the side and brushes it off, smiles for the shaking/shocked/apologising 17year old girl, assures her he isn't harmed... It was the talk of the school for weeks. --- PS: There is an inofficial "Jackie Chan Gasse" (alleyway) today in Görlitz. PS: He was filming "Around the world in 80 days"// Görlitz is also called "Görliwood" because over 50 movies were filmed there like "Inglorious Basterds" or the "The Grand Budapest Hotel". People here are laid back with actors/VIPs, and half of the townsfolk already has worked as an extra... (the contrary of Paparazzi lurking in bushes). Worth a visit!!!!

8points

GoddessOdd 2 years ago

This didn't happen to me, but one of my neighbors, who was dropping off her 4 year old at preschool... waiting in the entry line. A car screeched up to the front of the line, handed a kid off to the teachers and raced away. When my neighbor got to the end of the line, she asked about it, (everyone was a little put out by the line jumper). Turns out the kid was being dropped off by a pregnant mom; her water broke as she was waiting in line, so she dropped off the kid and drove herself to the hospital. For any who might not be familiar, in my suburban school district, parents who drive their kids to school queue up in long lines to drop kids at the front of the school. The lines can be a mile long in some schools.

7points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Me. Flunked a chem exam b/c I showed up post-ictal after a grand mal seizure. Still no idea how I even did that. Prof called me in b/ that wasn't typical. He gave me the kindest lecture on just skipping exams entirely if that happened in future and just have the medical center leave a message at his office. Not qutie the same, but memorable nonetheless.

6points

Theo Blackwood 2 years ago

I have one I’m still furious about. Mam was driving me a friend and his brother to school on a tiny Irish road. We come across a horse and rider knocked down by a car, Gardai everywhere. Poor horse was a goner. Got to school 1/2 hour late with photo proof the dead horse and my mam coming with us. Principal still gave us detention.

6points

Phyzzi 2 years ago

Gardia? (Sorry, I tried Google and it didn't help)

0points

Monique Reed 2 years ago

"Couldn't turn in my plant collection on time because I was carjacked at knife point and it was in my car. I will get it to you as soon as I get the car back from the police impound." That one was actually true. "Sorry about missing the exam. My uncle was murdered in Mexico and I had to go be with the family and take care of things." Also true. Now ask us what the most outlandish FAKE excuse I ever heard was...

4points

Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 2 years ago

Me: my mom was in the hospital, so my adult sister was taking care of us (she lives with us by the way). She woke me up and went back to bed- I fell back to sleep on accident. I wake up at 7:20, about the time my bus gets to the stop. I throw on an outfit and am out the door by 7:23 and SPRINT down to the bus stop, but was way too late. So I had to walk around 4+ miles to school along busy roads, in a skirt because I promised a friend I'd wear one that day. I got to school around 10 minutes late and explained it to my teacher- she understood and felt bad. The worst part was my girlfriend was super worried about me and she had thought my parents forced me to walk to school because another friend had seen me walking. This was all fairly recent- the chafing on my legs only faded a few days ago.

4points

ArchiBookworm 2 years ago

I was not someone who missed class, so when my design class was supposed to meet at the site, my professor was concerned when I didn't show. We had a flat. Put on the spare, it was flat. Ended up at the mechanics getting new tires. I got to the site about 20 minutes after everyone had left minus one classmate taking pictures.

4points

Vorknkx 2 years ago (edited)

Once I was late due to a mild concussion after banging my head in the morning. Found out I could have actually taken the day off... decided to stay anyway. Bad idea! In one class there were videos being shown (with lamps turned off), and every time the lamps were turned back on, mini-explosions of pain would go off inside my head. Lesson learned!

4points

Memere 2 years ago (edited)

Concussions aren't something to mess with, sorry you had to learn that the hard way. I had a minor auto accident on a weekend & had a mild concussion. The doctor did tell me to take off work, but I thought it was no big deal, so I went to work on Monday. After trying to look at the computer screen for about an hour, I was dizzy & had wonky vision. I wound up staying home for the rest of the week. Yep, I'll never do that again!

4points

Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)

Student in high school. Our homeroom teacher was also our English teacher. On this particular day of the week we always had English class first. All we did was sit in our homeroom for announcements and then she would start class. One morning she didn't show up for announcements, and then didn't show up for English class. We waited and waited. Then the principle came in and told us she had passed away the night before. What a shock. We wanted to send flowers to the funeral home and the principle said she would call. A class of high school kids and we collected $75 on the spot. Lunch money, every penny everyone had with them that day. She was such a wonderful teacher.

3points

Stealthee 3k 2 years ago

Not school, but work. I'm one that never calls off. I had to call off one day and when I came in my boss was ribbing me and asked why I called off. I pulled my phone out and showed him the pictures of the car that hit my house at 2am. Luckily the house was structurally fine but the porch pretty much exploded.

3points

Phyzzi 2 years ago (edited)

Ack! I was driving for the local bus system where some other driver managed to end up taking a bus into someone's house, which was obviously not great for anyone, though nobody was seriously injured. On a more humorous note, a friend of mine was working at a vet office when her brakes went out while she was parking, and she went through the front window of the office. Fortunately, that was enough to stop the car and the owner had a good sense of humor about it, putting up a sign that read "check out our new drive-through-window" on the board that covered the hole until it got repaired.

0points

GadgetGirl 2 years ago

Back in the dark ages of the late 70s, several kids were late or no shows for several days. Turned out a small plane had gone down in the neighborhood and the resulting explosion left body parts in several back yards. One kid found a hand, but was disappointed they wouldn't let him keep it.

3points

Pezor Zass 2 years ago

When i was in grade 1 or 2, i was late getting to school. got to the back gate just in time to watch all of my class go into the building. Had no idea what to do, so i went back home. This was the 70s, so ya, i was walking to school alone. Mum thought it was hilarious and too difficult to explain to the school, so let me just take the day off for a "family occasion"

3points

K Witmer 2 years ago

I had my sil call me out of work when it was raining and told my manager my car was floating on a flooded road. The road did flood but I never left our house. Believable excuse that day. Sometimes you need a mental health day

3points

Sam Wizer 2 years ago

I was in an economics class for my undergrad, very well respected professor in a lecture of 500 that met MWF. He showed up a couple minutes late to class on Monday and apologized saying he hadn't slept. He said he'd figured out something and if it was true "they" would probably kill him for figuring it out. He said he wanted to share it with us as soon as he had it fully worked out. On Wednesday he said he still hadn't slept, but hadn't quite figured it out. On Friday the auditorium was packed, people that weren't even in the class were there because of word of mouth, everyone wanted to know what he had figured out. Professor came in, said he still hadn't slept but was ready to share. He tried to explain for 45 minutes and everyone was trying really hard to understand him, but what he was saying was completely incomprehensible. After a while he just walked out of the room. The following Monday we had a new professor and our old professor had been committed.

2points

Amanda Ford 2 years ago

Back when I first became a teacher in Austin, TX I was taking attendance and discovered several boys were not in my English class. This was an eighth grade class, btw. I asked the students if they had seen...I read their names again...A few of them said yes, they had seen those guys. About 15-20 minutes went by. Then all of them walked in quietly and sat down. They didn't say a word but all of them had huge smiles on their faces. I asked why they were late, did they have a pass etc. One of them spoke up. "We just got to meet Salma Hayak. She's in town filming a movie. Her nephew goes to this school and she came to visit him. We all wanted to see her!" I thought about it for a moment and then said, "OK. That's fine. Now, let's get busy." When a few girls accused the boys of lying, I told them, it has to be true! I'd heard heard several lies from students, but they were all believable. And if Keanu Reeves or Johnny Depp ever visit, they would all get a free pass!

2points

Kim Holmes 2 years ago

In college one school year, I was late with an assignment for art history because my car caught fire 3x in one day, late for a paper in Spanish because I rubbed the skin off my fingertips doing an art assignment, and was late for another paper because I was on the wrong side of a flood.

2points

Julie Cipale 2 years ago

2015: Had unplanned surgery on right bicep due to severe staph infection (doctors didn't know why my right arm suddenly seized up & couldn't straighten out from elbow down). Had final exam for MS Access in college. Teacher was toughest prof to ever deal with, but understood that I had numerous med issues (the staph infection & surgery were nearly my last straw). Took exam a week late & even gave me extra time if I needed it (didn't). Told me I got an A, but he couldn't find my exam?!

2points

Will Who 2 years ago

I had an English class in college that competed with one of my work schedules: if my relief was late, I was late to class. I hate being late, but this particular professor hated interruptions to her classes. Sometimes, things became tense when I tried to enter quietly and get to my seat. On Monday, March 30, 1981, I arrived in the parking lot for a 1:30 p.m. class time at 1:33 p.m. However, I walked into class a little after 1:45 p.m. Central Time. I was neither quiet nor trying to go unnoticed. I opened the door and said, "Everyone, someone attempted to assassinate President Reagan. At first, they thought he was OK. As I listened to the radio, the last report was that his limo turned around headed to Walter Reed. Nobody knows his condition as this was an unconfirmed report just as I left my car." Party affiliation does not matter a lot when someone shoots at POTUS. Someone turned on their radio so we could listen to the continuous frantic, and at times contradictory, coverage.

2points

Will Who 2 years ago

The professor never said anything about my tardiness. Her usual barb, "Join us when it suits you," was not part of that day's commentary.

0points

Kai David 2 years ago

My baby sitter called off so I had to miß claß. I called my profeßor to let her know what was going on. She was not having it. Told me to bring my kid. I complied. A set of triplet 3 year olde boys. About 15 minutes into lecture, she got annoyed and asked why the mother could not watch the kids. The mother left us when she found out I was gay and I am a single dad with custody. The profeßor was a Franciscan nun at Lourdes, a Franciscan convent and college. My punishment was to do rosary. I told her no, I am a pagan jew. She tried to have me expelled and attempted to take my sons away from me

2points

Elita One 2 years ago (edited)

High school I went to for 11/12 had an absolute piece of s**t bus for our route, had all sorts of problems including water running down the INSIDE of the windows when it rained. One morning it breaks down halfway though pick up and we were stuck waiting for half an hour for a bus from another school to take us to our school. We were late to school by an hour, when we all arrived at the office and were asked by the office ladies why we were late (all of us explaining the bus broke down) these bitches had the gall to get angry at us as if it was our fault! They started saying why didn't we get our parents to pick us up and get us to school? Because you stupid bitches all of us kids live 30+ minutes away from school on rural properties and you just expect our parents to leave their jobs just as far away to pick us up?! F**k the couple that own that bus too its that old that parents of kids using it went to school on it! I finished high school 5 years ago and their still using it!

1point

Red 2 years ago

My mom had a student come in late because a mattress fell from a truck and he went to get it. Plot twist is that my mom saw the mattress flying out of the back of the truck on the way to school and told him before classes started. Small town, everybody is all over everybody else's businesses.

1point

Jayne Kyra 2 years ago

A student once told me that her dad burnt her project (a poster). I felt rather torn on whether to believe this because she was a responsible student, or to doubt it. Then the dad showed up and apologized and asked me not to give his daughter a 5. I couldn´t stop laughing that day.

1point

Lovin' Life 2 years ago (edited)

Had a classmate once, no joke, that came in about 45 minutes late. Teacher ask why he was late and he began singing, 🎵🎶because I got high, because I got high, because I got high🎶🎵, by Afroman. He was high as a kite! He was sent to rehab.

1point

Parmeisan 2 years ago

Interestingly, the stories written by actual teachers who originally didn't believe a story, are mostly back-loaded to the last 20 stories.

1point

Beth Marszalek 10 months ago

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0points

Jemma Dee 1 year ago

Had a college economics professor constantly cancel class. He would just leave a note on the board in the classroom: "Went to Camp David". He was an economic advisor for the Carter administration.

0points

Barbara Vandewalle 2 years ago

I was late for a school function. My dad had a cow who was birthing her calf. The calf was breech and if dad had not helped both cow and calf would have died.

0points

Suzanne Johnson 2 years ago

My professor received a note from a student, saying that his dog ate his paper (we’ve all heard this one)…mh professor had the note framed, and put it up on his office wall :-).

0points

Bernát Bonda 2 years ago

I used to go to school with train. Well, in Hungary the train is unreliable, so I usually catch one about 30 minutes earlier, so if something is wrong, I still have a chance to be there in time. But not when a train is delayed for 3 hours... More funny, when we catch the train at time, but it turns out that train should have left 2 hours earlier. So i arrived to the destination in time from my perspective, but still got an excuse about the 2 hour late from the train company. Soooo let's go to Burger King, I'm not in hurry anymore haha

0points

Andy Frobig 2 years ago

Maybe not an excuse, but...roll call in a weekly music performance class. Pudgy bearded Professor: Mike. Where's Mike? Mike's friend Kevin: He's in the bathroom. Professor: What's he doing? Kevin: Thinking of you.

0points

Jenn C 2 years ago

Every time I tap "view more comments" I get a Toyota ad pop-up.

0points

totally a german 2 years ago

why so many chickens? canadian geese, i expected, but chickens??

0points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Chickens can be absolute jerks.

2points

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Adrian 2 years ago

41points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I should think so!

8points

Kanuli 2 years ago

Not me, but 2 or 3? Schoolmates. They even had 2 days off. :) Reason: they found a swamp corpse on the way to school.

11points

Jo Choto 2 years ago

9points

zububonsai 2 years ago (edited)

8points

GoddessOdd 2 years ago

7points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

6points

Theo Blackwood 2 years ago

6points

Phyzzi 2 years ago

Gardia? (Sorry, I tried Google and it didn't help)

0points

Monique Reed 2 years ago

4points

Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 2 years ago

4points

ArchiBookworm 2 years ago

4points

Vorknkx 2 years ago (edited)

4points

Memere 2 years ago (edited)

4points

Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)

3points

Stealthee 3k 2 years ago

3points

Phyzzi 2 years ago (edited)

0points

GadgetGirl 2 years ago

3points

Pezor Zass 2 years ago

3points

K Witmer 2 years ago

3points

Sam Wizer 2 years ago

2points

Amanda Ford 2 years ago

2points

Kim Holmes 2 years ago

2points

Julie Cipale 2 years ago

2points

Will Who 2 years ago

2points

Will Who 2 years ago

The professor never said anything about my tardiness. Her usual barb, "Join us when it suits you," was not part of that day's commentary.

0points

Kai David 2 years ago

2points

Elita One 2 years ago (edited)

1point

Red 2 years ago

1point

Jayne Kyra 2 years ago

1point

Lovin' Life 2 years ago (edited)

1point

Parmeisan 2 years ago

Interestingly, the stories written by actual teachers who originally didn't believe a story, are mostly back-loaded to the last 20 stories.

1point

Beth Marszalek 10 months ago

This comment has been deleted.

0points

Jemma Dee 1 year ago

Had a college economics professor constantly cancel class. He would just leave a note on the board in the classroom: "Went to Camp David". He was an economic advisor for the Carter administration.

0points

Barbara Vandewalle 2 years ago

I was late for a school function. My dad had a cow who was birthing her calf. The calf was breech and if dad had not helped both cow and calf would have died.

0points

Suzanne Johnson 2 years ago

My professor received a note from a student, saying that his dog ate his paper (we’ve all heard this one)…mh professor had the note framed, and put it up on his office wall :-).

0points

Bernát Bonda 2 years ago

0points

Andy Frobig 2 years ago

0points

Jenn C 2 years ago

Every time I tap "view more comments" I get a Toyota ad pop-up.

0points

totally a german 2 years ago

why so many chickens? canadian geese, i expected, but chickens??

0points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Chickens can be absolute jerks.

2points