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40 Teachers Share Unbelievable Student Excuses For Being Late That Turned Out To Be 100% True
Let’s face it—almost every single one of us has ended up being late to class at least once or twice. It can be pretty easy to panic over how to excuse yourself for not being on time, and teachers are always ready to deal with a white lie. Whether it’s imaginary appointments with the dentist or sudden and unexplainable stomach aches, there can be no end to students’ creativity.
Yet, some stories can be so ridiculous, people can’t help but question whether they are real. User minecraftplayer48 decided to ask the teachers of Reddit, "What was the best excuse for being late that turned out to be true?" As of this day, the thread has collected more than 9.7K comments full of examples of how people didn’t make their wild stories up.
From getting pulled over by the police to assisting with births, Bored Panda has collected some of the craziest answers from this thread. Check them out down below and, if you’re up for it, share your own experiences in the comments!
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#1
I apologize that I'm writing this on mobile, so there might be errors. I'm an English professor, and one year a pretty good student showed up without one of his 2 major term papers. He explained that his safe had been stolen by a contractor who was working on their house. His laptop was in the safe, and that's where his paper was. I genuinely believe him because he been a really good student.
Then over the next few weeks, he started to show up to class looking very tired. He said that he was on a hunt for the person who stole his safe, and he was spending late nights with his cousin driving around looking for the guy because they knew his van. Now, the student and his cousin were both recently back from tours in Iraq and had seen combat experience. They wanted to find the guy to beat the s**t out of him and get the safe back because his wife's wedding ring was in the safe as well as a bunch of cash. He rewrote the paper and turned it in, apologetic that it wasn't up to his usual quality, but he still kept coming to class looking like he hadn't slept.
After a little while he came very happy to my office hours, and he reported that he found the guy after a long search that involved breaking into a meth den shaking people down with baseball bats and even bribing some prostitutes. He said that they found the guy's van at a Taco Bell after getting a tip from a prostitute, and they cornered him and waited for the police to come.
I read in the news that he had in fact done a citizen's arrest and stopped the guy at a Taco Bell, and that they ended up calling in the Secret Service because he used the cash that he stole from the safe to buy a bunch of counterfeiting equipment. Secret Service apparently investigates counterfeiting, so the whole investigation happened because this guy who I dub "the white Shaft" tracked the scumbag down through the bad side of town late at night to get a wedding ring, some cash, and his research paper back. It all turned out to be true. He got the ring and the laptop back. I gladly accepted his original paper, and it got a much higher grade than the rewrite.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
"Coming this Summer... Chris Pratt and Tom Hardy star as veteran cousins tracking down a stolen term paper when their whole world turns upside down. Featuring an epic cameo from Rob Gronkowski because we couldn't get Tom Brady, 'The English Paper' will be released exclusively on Apple TV+ June 18th."
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Total sidetrack BUT the secret service is a part of the Department of Treasury and was commissioned by Abraham Lincoln specifically to stop counterfeiting. It was only after William McKinley was shot and killed ~ 35 years later that they started protecting politicians. The FBI was spun off as its own agency in the early 1900s to take care of domestic intelligence gathering and domestic counterintelligence to help refocus the secret service and to move the FBI duties to the Dept of Justice.
Teresa Taylor 3 years ago
Almost correct. The Secret Service was moved to Department of Homeland Security when it was established after 9/11. It is desperately trying to return to Treasury since the majority of the investigations deal with financial losses (counterfeiting, bank fraud, elder fraud and computer fraud).
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Miguel justino C 3 years ago
Combat veterans are extremely motivated people. The thieves are lucky they just called the cops.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
The fact 2 combat veterans didn’t beat him to a pulp is the bad ass part. The restraint they displayed is a testament too their character.
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Daniel 3 years ago
His name isn't Liam is it? If not, then I know of a guy who will star in that movie!
Nichele Givand 3 years ago
This just pushed The Kingsman and Mission Impossible one notch down on my list.
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#2
Middle school boy was late because he watched his dad become a citizen.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Kid should have had the whole day off so he and his family could celebrate. That's a major life event and is more important than one day of school.
Anne Kanters-Eerden 3 years ago
TBH I think that he should've gotten the entire day off to celebrate!
#3
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.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Because I really did not want to be in this class long!
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
One of my favorite quotes is "I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to a place you don't want to be much quicker than they get you to the place you want to be" - Lennox Lewis. Its good advice and reminds me to not judge a person's other abilities by what they do for a day job.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
I took a Google maps approved shortcut in Louisiana one time when I was towing a small RV trailer with my truck. The trailer was white. Emphasis on was. It turned out to be a 10 mile long mud hole, and as soon as I found one on the other side of it I pulled into a coin operated car wash and spent about 45 minutes shoving quarters into the machine and washing the truck and the trailer down, which had both been dirtied halfway up with what looked like several tons of sticky red mud. Shortcut! HA!
Blackstone 3 years ago (edited)
It was our honeymoon. Not a shortcut, but a GPS approved route around a roadblock. The whole eastbound interstate was shut down due to rock slides and there was absolutely no signage to help navigate around it. It was basically a sign that said to turn around. So we took the GPS route. It turned into 15 miles of barely one lane dirt road over a mountain with no guard rails in the middle of a rainy night. If we'd met a car, we'd probably still be there (or dead off the side of the mountain). It's been over a decade, but if I'm not familiar with the road and it turns to dirt or begins to narrow to less than two lanes, I turn around. I'm never doing that again.
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Sounds like a scene out of a Nickelodeon TV show. Just insert the laugh track. Feel sorry for the kid though.
#4
"Sorry Bohemian Rhapsody came on just as I parked." - My art teacher when he was about 5:55 minutes late.
Rijkærd 3 years ago (edited)
Thats a valid excuse...Freddie approved. Mercury certified..Queen stamped.
Seán Baron 3 years ago
When that song comes on, anyone can see that nothing really matters at all.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
This happened to me! I was the teacher...they all laughed, then clapped. /s
Julie Tyler 3 years ago
If Bohemian Rhapsody comes on and you turn it off we can't be friends.
Shea Keenan 3 years ago
Cannot turn off the radio when Bohemian Rhapsody is on. It's a law somewhere.
#5
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.
Daniel Alicea 3 years ago
But don't take them away from where they're intellect shines. He can't write an essay, but he can raise a damn fine cow
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
If you live in a farming community, overseeing a livestock birth is always an excused absence or tardy. Its not something you can wait until after school to finish.
glowworm2 3 years ago
To be honest, I'd totally pick watching a cow give birth to going to English class as well.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
No doubt this kid assisted. I'm a retired farmer. It's a right of passage and in my community it's always excused.
Load More Replies... Adrian 3 years ago
Similar story with my brother, only he was helping out with the lambing. Can't say as his essays would ever win prizes either, but he did go on in biochemistry to get his doctorate.
Ausrine Ciapaite 3 years ago
I grew up in a small village. A lot of students in my school were from surrounding villages. Main income/way of living was farming. We had students in my class that would regularly miss classes due to: potato harvests, trouble with farm animals, blocked roads due to snow storms etc. Kids were in no trouble as long as they brought a parent's note.
martin734 3 years ago (edited)
I live in rural Dorset in England, this is a fairly common occurrence during lambing and calving season and harvest and the majority of kids who live on farms around here stay in farming when they are adults. Learning first hand about animal husbandry and crop management is far more useful to them than learning the poetry of Larkin and Byron.
#6
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.
Anton Kider 3 years ago
Kill us ? BP is becoming some kind of exaggerated politically correct inquisition...! What's wrong with you guys ?
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
Everything is a trigger and requires warnings. What the hell has happened to this world?
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Guy MacGregor 3 years ago
You are right, but remember that Bored Panda team's first language isn't English.
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Guy MacGregor 3 years ago
You are right, but remember that Bored Panda team's first language isn't English.
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#7
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."
Viktor Feurer 3 years ago
Near to my flat sometimes the peacocks from a nearby castle park block the tram. :D
Steve Ramaekers 3 years ago
We have a family of peacocks in the neighborhood by the school I work at. Can have us lined up down the street bc they move for nobody.
#8
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.
coleby worthen 3 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
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Very imaginative but cops might have believed pot holes - which is a good excuse for any erratic bike riding!
#9
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."
H G 3 years ago
Probably the same teacher who won't let students use the bathroom.
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SweetsEve 3 years ago (edited)
I've never understood why we tolerate this in higher education when it's SO EXPENSIVE! I had an issue when I was with college where my English professor, who had a ton of accolades, would talk and talk after the class was over and if you tried to leave she would count you absent because it was disrespectful. My next class was 10 minutes across the campus and would close her door 5 minutes till "because if you weren't early you were already late." I even explained that I was coming from another class and politely asked if she would accept me coming in on time, nope. I had to drop her class. In the meantime I'm PAYING THOUSANDS to be there. Not my parents, me. I don't know why this kind of stuff is acceptable. Personally I don't think it should be.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
I had an older student who was late to every class. We finally had a glorious spring day, so we headed out to the boardwalk on the river for class. I wrote on the blackboard where we were. As usual, she was late, and didn't read the board. Marched to my Dept. Chair to complain. I got called in to discuss the situation. I got a call the next day from the Chair asking me what I do to have such loyal students? I was confused. The woman that complained told my other students what she had done. EVERY single student in that class went to see my Chair. I was so proud.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
Maybe my experience isn't typical but none of my college professors gave a darned about lateness to class and most didn't care about missed days. They only cared about the work and the exams. Of course they also didn't accept "I missed that day" as an excuse for anything either .
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
Not really late, but I had a wind ensemble director who said that if a watch alarm went off in rehearsal, he would take the watch, and if a phone rang he would answer it. One day an alarm went off. Director started to turn purple...then we all looked at the clock and saw it was 4:20, and we all cracked up--including the director. Situation defused.
Missie Summers 3 years ago
My mom died midsemester during a very difficult Statistics course. I still went to class but was numb. He look3d at me and said who died? I said my mom. He never joked again.
Mine Truly 3 years ago
How terrible. I'm sorry you went through that. It's becoming clear the best thing to say to a late or distressed student is "Are you okay?"
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Nishanth Vemula 3 years ago
What a horrible professor. What if you fell down your bicycle and got some injuries and had to go through first aid procedures and a possible Tetanus injection that made you a few minutes late? That's not a funeral procession so you are not allowed to be late?
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
That happened to a friend. But this was before cellphones were a common thing. So she got in trouble.
#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.
greenbean 3 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!!!
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
TL:DR - volunteer to help strangers or we all fail. It should not be happening but life is unfair. There's two ways to fix it, the big picture and the small picture. The big picture is social services trying to help but they will always be understaffed - you can't have 1 social worker for every person. The small picture is friends, family, and neighbors stepping in to help. Unfortunately the next door neighbor has their own kids to get to school so they can't check in several times a day on mom and once again people fall through the cracks. When that happens someone like a child is left with the burden to take care of the parent or lose their family as mom goes to jail and they go into the foster system. That foster system itself is a big picture solution that doesn't have what it needs to meet the needs of the people its supposed to serve.
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MissyKrissy 3 years ago
THANK YOU FOR NOTICING! When I was a teen I skipped most school days to go to work (I had 2 jobs with forged work permits) to help my parents pay the bills and buy food for the house. Not one single teacher said a word, cared, let alone helped.
LittleMissPanda 3 years ago
I am so sorry you had to do that :'( hope things are better for you and your family now
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Kelly Jo Andrews 3 years ago
Teachers like you are who give us the strength to make it through. I had 1 in high school like that. I had so much respect for him that 2 years after graduation I reached out to his widow when he passed and told her how much he helped me. Her response was; "oh, I remember him talking about you. He was so proud of you for having the strength to do what you had to do." I cried for days over that. No one ever told me that they were proud of me. It meant a lot to me.
#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.
Antony Aston 3 years ago
I went to school the day after my dad died. I told the teacher that's why I hadn't handed my homework in. He said 'That's no excuse!' The whole class stood up and walked out.
Alex The Fanperson 3 years ago
Class said "adios" (on an actually serious note, I'm so sorry for your loss. Your classmates did the right thing, and I hope you are doing better)
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Scott 3 years ago
I was 9 when my mom died in '97. At the funeral, my maths teacher came up to me while I was sitting in a chair crying and set a stack of papers on my lap. She told me it was my homework from the day after she died through the next two weeks and due the moment I got back into class. I didn't do a damn bit of it.
Donna Rakowiecki 3 years ago
What happened to a boy when I was in middle school and his father died by A hose blew in an acid tank and his dad ran under the acid to hit the emergency shutoff button to stop any more acid to come out he hit the button but died later that night from the acid burns And the teacher was a female and she wanted to paddle him till the class went off on her 5th grade and class braced for a fight she back then and apologized Saying she didn't really understand what we were saying
Erin Mitchell 3 years ago
In high school my godsister's dad died. She missed a couple of weeks of school to grieve. It happened to coincide with the end of the school year during finals. Most of her teachers were compassionate and did not make her make up the finals and didnt ding her grades. Except for 1. This teacher was a nightmare and all of us students hated her. I managed to avoid her during my time there. This teacher gave her 0s for all the missed assignments, tests, and final exam. She flunked her. No matter how much the other teachers or the AP told her change her grade she refused. The principal ordered her to change the grade and she said "I dont care if her dad died. She needs to do the work. Im not changing the grade." The principal was so peeved and went into the system and changed the grades himself. I dont remember if the teacher faced any repercussions.
#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.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Professor is just asking for trouble. Who would say something like that?
ultravioletmaglite 3 years ago
My mom forces me to pass exams (baccalauréat in France, 17-18 years old at the end of highschool) the week after my dad passed away. It was the sunday 18 June 2011, and the day before Father Day (i laughed and cry so much when i saw the Google Doodle !). I bursted in tears the thursday afternoon during my french oral exam. We burried him the wednesday, and the text was the General de Gaulle's 18 June speech was too much for me. It's been ten years but it will always be the worst week of my life, i think.
Andrea Pereira 3 years ago
I'm very sorry about that. I also had a bad similar experience. My mother was dying of cancer during the last months of one of my semesters at college. It was a paid faculty, so I couldn't afford the price of not passing my exames and having to redo the semester. I remember going to final exames two days after she was buried. And having to skip between hospital and classes I couldn't afford to miss. It was hell. Most of my teachers understood, but anyway I had to maintain grades and minimum attendance. I'm sorry for your loss. It's been almost 10 years here too, and still hurts.
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Pamela Blue 3 years ago
It was, but I don't think the prof expected that answer. He was just being sarcastic having watched so many other students simply skip classes for no good reason.
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DrNefariousMcFarious 3 years ago
My Dad passed away, I emailed my Professors. They were supportive.
Emily M 3 years ago
I'm a teacher and I never come at kids all combative like this. I say something like "hey, i havent seen you in a while, is everything ok?" -- it helps students who have been through something feel safe talking to me and it makes most kids who were totally blowing me off feel like jerks
europaleta 3 years ago
What an insensitive question in the first place... No matter what the answer was.
Claudia Steele 3 years ago
....and there are those who abuse the system. I had many employees stay out of work:because their grandmother died. After the 7th grandmother of this employee passed away i stopped being played. How many have had exposure to Covid so they had to stay home for 2 weeks ? We are responsible for our actions; no one else.
#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.
Ivo H 3 years ago (edited)
*week. And I would just sit in the chair, look of smuggness on my face, being just silently proud of myself.
Load More Replies... Eb 3 years ago
A girl in my English class missed the exam when she gave birth without knowing she was pregnant.
Soap 3 years ago
Not gonna lie, it took me a moment to realize that was a baby's hand on the finger (in the photo)
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
I'm almost afraid to ask what you thought it was?
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Jason Marin 3 years ago
The girl walked back over with the woman to her house to help deliver the baby? Why not just bring the woman into her own house and help deliver the baby there instead?
#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.
Parmeisan 3 years ago
I got caught under a desk once. I work in IT but I was in HR for the day. I was working alone in a room with 2 desks. Desk A's owner was away for the day, and it was situated such that it was completed hidden from Person B at desk B. That person was temporarily gone when I had something akin to a panic attack. I hid under desk A, knowing that when I felt better again nobody would see me crawling out and would just assume I'd been at the computer the whole time. But then Person B came into the room talking to the head of HR. They were having a confidential discussion and closed the door behind them! I had to come out from under the desk while saying, "Hey, sorry, I'm still in here!" Since they had apparently looked over the room already to make sure I wasn't in there, I then had to explain that I'd been hiding under the desk.... luckily, they understood or at least pretended to...
Mine Truly 3 years ago
Okay okay, from HR's POV: HR: B, I need to talk to you about your inappropriate behavior at work. Please step into this empty room with me. OP: Sorry, I'm in here! HR: Why were you under your desk? OP: I was hiding. HR: *long, quiet sigh* OP, I need to talk to you after this.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but what? You have a scale of how long you wait for someone based on how senior they are! Get out of here!
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
I know! We just had a flat ten minutes and if the lecturer/tutor/professor isn't there you can assume class is cancelled.
Load More Replies... Vanta Black 3 years ago
Ha! You thought you were going to get to leave but he fooled you and then he schooled you!
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I hope he didn't teach other subjects using that teaching method because things like conflict theory could become scary.
#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.
Paul Beebe 3 years ago
My 30 lb Bombay (Black Cat-Yellow eyes) sleeps on my phone all the time-missed a few alarms meself....
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Any thing a dog does is OK with me because without them I wouldn't be me!
No you can't have my name 3 years ago
I hope they got that pug on a diet. Dogs with fat rolls are not healthy.
#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".
Susan Bosse 3 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.
Parmeisan 3 years ago
Not really. The bus system is not handled by any individual school.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
What was it, the school bus from The Simpsons? Bus-6215fa...45abfc.gif 
Emily 3 years ago
Former school bus driver here. The school definitely should have know what was going on. Where I lived the busses often caught fire due to heat and every time, dispatch was informed, who would then call 911 as well as the school to let them know what route would be late that day and why. But yeah, school bus blowing up happens surprisingly often
Anna roberts 3 years ago
TIL school bus blowing up happens surprisingly often
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Our bus didn't blow up but it did forget to turn up. We called the school, who called the bus line. They sent another bus but we all had to go to the office to get late slips. The classes must have been very empty before we turned up as that bus took probably 1/3 of our student body.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
And why were so many late late from one area - sounds to me like educators need educating!
#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.
Blackstone 3 years ago
Agreed. She had fortitude to stick with it and took responsibility for finishing her project. The best projects aren't the ones assigned, but the ones we choose for ourselves.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Knowing your priorities when you're six... I'm over sixty and still don't know them.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
You probably forgot them because you're old. (insert winking emoji here)
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Shireen Maher 3 years ago
she shouldve taken her time on the bunny bc thats a very valid excuse
#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.
ShadowStalker36 3 years ago
No, its his fault for not having something other than an actual car to practice with
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
What a bad teacher, not checking the work of his student. Students still need to learn, why on earth would you not check if everything was done well before driving home in that car? How can you even teach a student if you didn't catch the fact he doesn't know what a torque wrench does?
btaglln 3 years ago
Maybe it is a very good teacher after all, because the student will probably never forget to torque the bolt from now on
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
Never once used a torque wrench on a tire. Did hundreds of tires on the farm and we said make it tight not snug. Even on tractor tire changes.
Memere 3 years ago
I grew up on a farm, & we used torque wrenches, but my dad taught us to use it lightly & finish off by snugging the lug nut down with the tire wrench. He also taught us to ALWAYS check twice before moving the vehicle.
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Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
why would you let studdnets work on YOUR car..thats kinda on you man
John Meise 3 years ago
The thing that blows my mind here is that I don't understand how you could NOT be using all your might with a long ass wrench for leverage on lug nuts. Those are your freaking tires, they can't be falling off. You don't need a torque wrench but you really need to tighten the ever living f**k out of them.
#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.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
What kind of oil needs to be delivered, and what are these tanks that need hooking up?
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
There are many communities that oil is the major or sole source of heat for all buildings. Each house or business has a tank in the backyard. Along with gas, its a major source in many European countries. My brother lives in Rhode Island and residential heating oil #2 is selling for $4.077 per gallon in Rhode Island today, up $.80 per gallon since last month because of the Ukraine conflict.
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
WTF - the guy breaks both his shoulders and his collar bone and he's still not entitled to any sick pay so a child has to do his work for him???
Denise Indoung 3 years ago
It sounds like a family run business. When you're a small business owner you take a lot of hits.
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Nora Yelton 3 years ago
I had a oil delivery man deliver me and my small children oil during a HUGE snow storm. In the middle of the night. I couldn't get my furnace to light after he brought the oil. So this nice man stayed and worked on my furnace so me and my kids wouldn't freeze to death!! I tried to pay him extra for everything he had done above and beyond his job.... But he refused to take it!! The next day I called the company he worked for and told them what a wonderful employee he was and I told them about all the extra work he had done to help me and my kids that night!! I hope he got a raise...he definitely deserved it!
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I think it means his student's father delivered it for free.
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Sydne Brown-Maddox 3 years ago
Teachers do more than teach subjects. They also self-model and reward other important issues for people in life. Those are important lessons too.
Jill Berckefeldt 3 years ago
Midwesterner here. The delivery of heating oil is not a super common thing in this area. Mostly natural gas which runs in lines underground, has a meter, we get a monthly bill. Most farms in the area still use liquid propane LP to heat with and it is delivered by truck. It is kept in a Large storage tank outside in the yard, with an underground line coming into the house. Hope that helps with some questions.
#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'
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Born and raised? If you have the opportunity to go live in Beverly Hills, you take it.
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S 3 years ago
There isn't enough time in eternity to answer that question lol we just wake up everyday and do our best not to die.
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Paula Marowsky 3 years ago
People being shot everywhere on daily basis across USA... that is truly sad.
Ruby Serene 3 years ago (edited)
I want to know the story behind this so much... Like, who was he aiming for? The person forgave this guy right away, did he not have a good relationship with his mom? So many questions, no answers.
Mine Truly 3 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of the email that circulated a few years back from a prof to his students. It went something like, "Class is cancelled. Against my best wishes, I was shot. Also, I have COVID and my wife left me. Do such and such assignment and I'll see you the following session."
#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.
Doug Buse 3 years ago
When I was in 10th grade I had a no neck blockhead teacher in some class, and I was being disruptive in some way. Talking while he was teaching or something. He told me you know there's no law that you have to come to school you can quit and leave anytime you want. I stood up and walked out the door of the high school and quit right there. I went back later I got my GED, then went to college. He was right though at least he taught me something in that class
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
I once had to fill in a form for being late to a job (I didn't mind, I liked working there) and where it asked 'Reason for being late' I wrote the only possible answer I could see 'I didn't leave the house on time'. My manager thought it was hilarious and congratulated me for being honest. I was still confused because isn't that usually why we're late to things, but now I'm older and wiser I realise how often people feel safer using a little lie about the traffic etc.
Renegade 3 years ago
Excuses like that seems to work better if you're rarely late.
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#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.
Oopsydaisy 3 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!
Parmeisan 3 years ago
Ok I don't know if "spell heckler" was intentional or not but I'm calling it that forever now
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Dave P 3 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
Drew Schrepel 3 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.
Hagen Radcliffe 3 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.
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No you can't have my name 3 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.
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Rebecca Vestal 3 years ago
I'd tell this kid anytime you want to be late and bring me tamales I'm up for it!
#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.
Parmeisan 3 years ago
I was going to say the same thing! This is a very good argument for it. You wouldn't want to have a bear dragged through YOUR house, now would you? :D
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Nobody is dragging a tranquilized bear through my house without me getting some pictures. At least one of which is going to be posed.
Kai David 3 years ago
My dad, early onset Alzheimer's, drove into and through the doctors office at 8:25 am. Made the news. I mißed the day due to that. The proffeßor dropped me from the claß because if you miß one claß, you're not serious about studies; so as not to waste his time, he drops anyone you mißes his claß.
Renegade 3 years ago
Why is it sad? It's not like they killed the poor bear.
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#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.
Mazer 3 years ago
Goats make great pets, nearly as good as dogs (a big different but not by much). We had a woman d we ho trained three goats to be her walking companions out on the trail. The goats were awesome, clad in collars with bells and leashes if needed. It was always a treat to see them on the trail
Juno French 3 years ago
My mom had goats growing up and she would bring one in for show and tell.
#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
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
This is the fault of the college for not putting him on sick leave and getting another instructor
Lauren 3 years ago
My best friend taught college while she was undergoing cancer treatment. She chose to because it kept some normalcy in her life and it was during the earlier lockdowns so she was not required to be in the physical classroom. She learned a lot about grace that semester.
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Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
I can see why carrying on if you can would be good for morale. Unfortunately it does not sound like this guy had much of a choice. It blows my mind that in America, you can be dying of cancer, not only have to pay to get treatment, don't have sick leave, but then also have to pay to get someone to cover you?! In England, you are either signed off on sick leave from your company, or, you take a leave of absence and are eligible for disability payments throughout cancer treatment (and any other serious long term illness), oh and yeah, all of the chemo, hospital treatments, stays, transport, and food is free. And America call themselves the Land of the Free. I'm sorry but it's disgusting to have so many people have to go through all this stuff whilst then also having to worry about losing their job, home, car, being able to feed their kids. Please change to "The Land of the free healthcare like here in the UK. I literally beg of you.
Melissa Harris 3 years ago
You don't have to pay for someone to cover you
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Poor guy, he needed to get a sick leave and not have to come in! If your dying live your best life while you can!!
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
This has to be in the US. It's the only country who treats anyone this way.
Vicki Perizzolo 3 years ago
That's a shame - he was probably trying to do treatment pre-class so he didn't to use up all his sick/vacation time. a lot of employers don't have 'cancer insurance' and those who do, it's not cheap
blankman 3 years ago
Reminds me of one of the few undergrad math courses I actually hated. Not because of the material but because of the prof. I actually liked him (really nice guy) but he was of the opinion that it was important for us to memorize all this stuff at least once. And he had the ability to stand at the board and lecture for two hours (no notes) and, if you checked it would be a word for word copy of the text. The only reason I survived that course is because his wife came down with cancer and wanted to die "at home" with her family. The prof that took over was actually far tougher but didn't believe in memory work.
#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.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I would have just gone home. Shock makes you really tired. Poor kid probably needed to sleep.
Dave P 3 years ago
Been proven that after trauma like this, the best thing for kids is to keep routine, helps their brain recover from the shock faster. Breaking routine leads to higher rates of depression and slower mental recovery
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
A child arrives very late to your class with cuts all over their face and a sore shoulder, plus was probably in shock from the crash and death they just witnessed—-which would be traumatizing to just about anybody, FFS—-and you refuse to f*****g believe them? What kind of goddamned sadist are you? It’s obvious SOMETHING extreme had happened to the kid, so how about backing the f**k up out of their s**t, teacher?
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
“But the teachers wouldn’t believe me” WTF ?! Why are these people even teaching? They clearly hate kids, are lousy teachers & miserable humans. They automatically go to power flex for everything - pathetic little people who have to bully anybody they can dominate. I’ve lost all faith & hope in humanity over the last few years. Sorry for the rant, it’s just sooo. Sigh.
As Lilith Goes 3 years ago
I feel you in my own way. It's an easy thing to feel like that with all that surrounds and overwhelms. Chin up, there's much good out there too. ✌️
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Random Anon 3 years ago
I don't know if this was recently or way back. But when I was in school, short of losing consciousness or bleeding profusely, you don't go anywhere. It's quite common to see students sit in class with bloody clothes from fighting. One dude even sat through most of the day with a compass stabbed into his arm, until a newer young teacher came in, took him to the office and called his parents.
John Meise 3 years ago
This is why it pisses me off when people blatantly ignore road laws. YOU'RE F*****G SHARING THE ROAD WITH OTHERS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUT OTHER'S PEOPLE'S LIVES AT RISK! He's not a jerk, he's a piece of garbage and should get more than 8 years in jail.
Thalia Lovering 3 years ago
Why wasn't this kid sent home after this shocking experience? And why were his teachers such big a$$holes?
#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.
Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
Those cuckoos will straight up f**k Link up. I speak from experience 🐔🐔🐔
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#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.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 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.
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
An old lady in a vintage southwest USA mining town told me that in her youth, students would shanghai loose mine mules to ride to school, and a valid late excuse was "the mule got away".
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
Here it’s: sorry got caught behind several Amish buggies and/or tractors!
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
I was watching a live cam on youtube the other day and some poor guy got stuck at a crossing while a hugeass train went past (not uncommon, I mean that is why the live cam is there to see the trains) but once it was past the lights stayed on and then one came the other way! I hope the guy had his phone with him because he was stuck there for a very long time.
Parmeisan 3 years ago
I'm used to trains between 100 and 200 cars. When I was in high school I did the France trip with my French class (ummm that might only be a thing in Canada... grade 12 French classes always raise money and travel to France if they can afford it). So anyway, I was in France and we saw this train coming up with really cool graffiti on it so I reached for my camera, aimed the shot... no train. The train had FIVE cars and was already gone. I could hardly believe that you'd even bother with a train that short, haha.
Kai David 3 years ago
That was my home towne. The tracks cut the city at a diagonal and stopped. Any student that did not catch the 6:05 am bus had to catch the 6:25 bus. If the 6:25 bus was late, there was no going to school due to the 6:30 train. There was no way around it. The school said we should climb over the parked cars to catch another bus.
Vincent Jay 3 years ago
You used the word "carriage" instead of the word "car." Are you from Australia? Just wondering. Have a good day. :)
Susan Bishop 3 years ago
I was late to testify in court. Judge asked me where I lived and when I told him he asked "How many cars were in the train?" FYI, I counted 86.
#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.
An Co 3 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.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Ok so they had to search every kid before they found a gun. Better?
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Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
yeahh seems legit. spent half of 7 grade on a bus casue of bomb threats. and now i carry a book with me ever were just incase
Curry on... 3 years ago
Author could have just said, "I taught in an American school," because shootings happen everywhere in every kind of neighborhood.
#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.
fire bug 3 years ago
Yeah but he didn't think the guys excuse could hold air?
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#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.
Kira Okah 3 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.
Allison B 3 years ago
I've only ever seen pictures of Wales but it looks like a beautiful place. And you have cool accents.
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Caroline Driver 3 years ago
We also got caught by loose sheep in Wales, took us 20 minutes to crawl slowly down an untarmacced road behind them until they decided that This was the field they fancied and all turned in.
Salty Wild Hair 3 years ago
This happened plenty of times in Greece with goats. And you never just nudge them because they are not very smart and can end up under the car in seconds. So you wait. They require you to have special auto insurance there 1 million euro in case something happens. And of course, the owner of said goats can take you to court and sue you for its value, and any progeny it may have had and so on. So just be patient. My favorite was when the leadership of the military base I was stationed at would get surrounded by goats just outside the main gate. No way to yell at anyone once you experience it.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Not Wales but Scotland, my ex had to get out of the car and tackle some sheep to get them off the road. Several other drivers also were doing it. I found the whole situation totally hilarious to watch.
#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.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Well well well...if its not the chicken gang then its the Wild Turkey Mafia....either poultry has the right of way
Parmeisan 3 years ago
I was late to work on day because a collection of baby geese was on the road. The mother had crossed with them and hopped onto the boulevard, but they were too small to make the same jump. Mother was freaking out, babies were everywhere. I managed to get them to safety somehow (I honestly don't remember how). My point being.. sometimes it's also the Goose Brigade.
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Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
This has happened to me, too. I honked, stupid f*****g turkeys kept running away ON THE ROAD IN FRONT OF ME so I couldn't drive any faster than a turkey could run for about a mile and a half.
MotherofGuineaPigs 3 years ago
When I honked, they started pecking the bumper... still didn't move out of the way.
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They weigh up to 35lb and don't care what you or car wants to do. The US humane society has a web page on how to encourage them to move on because they are notorious for not caring what you want.
Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
My fiance used to drive for FedEx and got into a tussle with a wild tom turkey. He ended up throwing pens and other small stuff at it before having to throw his ID badge at it to make a getaway. Unfortunately he had to go back and get his ID back.
Lil Fox 3 years ago
First year of middle school my bus was held hostage by more than 20 turkeys. A cop car pulls up, older and younger officers. One just yells for us to 'watch this' and the younger team at the turkeys and then booked it down the road with mad birds chasing. It was effective. We made it home. Don't know how he ended up. 😆 🤣
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
But when they do decide to make tracks, those little gobblers are FAST!
Memere 3 years ago
I've done that with Canada geese, & would do it with turkeys. And I honestly don't care if one doesn't move & gets run over.
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#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
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Hell yeah we finally found a true believer - In Brooklyn no less!
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I love compassionate teachers. I worked a full time night job and went to school full time during the day. I arrived very late to my first class of the day, and I was crying. One of my co-workers had been murdered at my office. My lovely, wonderful English professor took one look at my face, took me out into the hallway, and told me to give him my schedule for the day... then he sent me home and notified all my classes I would be absent for at least one day, maybe two. I've never forgotten that kindness.
#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.
Julius Zuke 3 years ago
Sadly, this also happens at the high school level. It is so important for teachers to check up on absentees.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Had a college classmate, who was part of my team for the final presentation (instead of an exam) on the last day in class, text me he wasn’t going to be able to come in. I asked if he needed a ride or something, and he said no. He finally admitted he’d been arrested the night before and was sitting in jail, where he was going to be for a while. He would never admit what he was arrested for.
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Counseled inmates in a jail. They were never late, however, when released they did miss classes.
#35
A kid’s apartment burned down overnight. He was a little late, but still came.
Andy Acceber 3 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.
Megen Karlinsey 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, as a senior in high school, my father was forcibly admitted to the state mental hospital for a month. I won't say what happened, but it was traumatic for the whole family. Going to school, and then to my after-school-job was the best thing for me at the time. I needed to feel normal. I needed my routine and to have my friends around me. Grief and trauma responses aren't one-size-fits-all, though, so I'm sure someone else would have crumbled under the pressure of having to be "normal" under those circumstances. I just know what was helpful for me. Same thing proved to be true for me as an adult, both after my dad died, and then later when my mom passed away. I'm a creature of habit; I need the structure of routine to cope.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I found out a friend of mine had committed suicide and went to school the next day, to a two night camp. I went to a different school to my friend but two other friends went to the same one as me. I think it helped for us to be together during those first few days, it helped us process it and be 'normal' at the same time.000
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Ellie Rosser 3 years ago
What else is he going to do, stand around outside the burned out building all day? Doing his normal school stuff was probably helpful.
Vee! 3 years ago
this happened to my friend in 2nd grade! the day after we had a party for her and gave her some essentials (clothes, snacks, a bedspread, etc.) and some toys and books!
Brian B 3 years ago
Back in college I lived in a guys dorm. There was a gals dorm attached to us. One day the still in HS guy came trying to get his GF back. He had several sticks of dynamite strapped on. Police were able to get him to allow the girls, including her GF, to leave. Then he went boom. The fire alarm went off and we assumed it was just another drill. Then someone looked out the window. Fastest evacuation in history. Anyway, I had a big test the next day and wasn't allowed back in my room to get my notes. Went to the test still in a bit of a daze and bombed (pun intended) the test. Talked to the prof a bit later when my brain was starting to function. He told me that if I had asked on the day of the test, he would have allowed me to take it later. Since I hadn't asked (didn't even think of asking) my test score stood. I didn't have much respect for that prof for the rest of the class.
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
This happened to me when I was in primary school. Our house burnt down one afternoon and we still went to school the following morning because my mum had to spend the day finding us a place to stay.
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Kids are more resilient than adults, probably cause they know the adults will handle it. Many times they will look at the adults to see how to react.
#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.
Vanta Black 3 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?
Judy Reynolds 3 years ago
The procession would have been from the church to the cemetery, so the teacher would have left the church before the procession started.
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Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
sorry i hope i don't sound bad becasue when i saw organ. my mind went"wait there's a class for organ transplantation?
Will Lanni 3 years ago
Did you ever have to borrow an organ to practice on? Did that make the person you borrowed it from an organ donor? Sorry that just spilled out of me.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I am friends with an organist and he once had to overtake a funeral procession, despite cringing at the terrible lack of decorum, because he was supposed to be playing when the coffin came in!
#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.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
Not really since they left five kids behind. It should've been a case of the entire class going together and leaving a note for the teacher saying they'd be right back.
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Mary Mosher 3 years ago
I'd like to know why the other five students weren't invited? As well as the teacher ...
Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
If they skipped to get breakfast is perfectly acceptable to, especially if they bring me back some food.
Jessica Hamilton 3 years ago
A few of my Grade 11s were late from lunch at a coffee shop. They called a classmate to ask what I wanted. I declined but appreciated the offer of bribery.
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
Can't stand Cracker Barrel - the food is just okay, but so damned noisy! Concrete floors, no carpet, no curtains - with all the hard surfaces throughout that amplify all the racket, can't hear yourself think.
#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.
Aileen Grist 3 years ago
Sometimes just carrying on as normal is the best way to deal with trauma for children (and adults)
Dave P 3 years ago
proven to be better for children to process and recover.
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Janet Lewis 3 years ago
When I was a High School Senior, I got knocked over by a car while in the school crosswalk. I limped into first period about 5 min late. When the teacher asked why, I told him, "Oh, I got hit by a car in the crosswalk.". Other students had witnessed it, so he believed me.
#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.
Janet Pattison 3 years ago
You and your friend wer really in sync, both forgetting shoes on the same day, how perfect!!
#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.
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Did he actually pour cement into his FILLED bag? Why didn't he empty it first?
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Especially as any idiot knows their textbooks cost more than that.
Load More Replies... Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
WHY WOULD YOU NOT TAKE ALL THE S**T OUT OF YOUR BAG FIRST?! Also.... what was this bag made of that the cement didn't seep through and like, fuze through his shirt and join to his skin?!
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Was Jackass on MTV? Sounds like a very similar thing...
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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.
Samantha Lomb 3 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
GFSTaylor 3 years ago
I missed one of my final exams at university because I got the day and date mixed up - thought it was something like Mon 25th when in fact is was on Sat 25th. They asked if I had been in contact with anyone else who'd sat the exam - no, I hadn't. So I did it on the Monday, in alone my tutor's room, surrounded by their text books. The tutor popped in about halfway through to bring me a coffee. It was the most pleasant exam-taking situation I ever had. (I'd not enjoyed the actual course, which might explain why I got careless about checking the date for the exam)
#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.
g90814 3 years ago
she likely wouldn't have been there talking if she had been hit. A car is like a faraday cage if you're inside it, but not fun in any case.
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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.
the fallen soufflé 3 years ago
It's fair for her to ask why he was late. I don't think she did anything wrong
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#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.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The creep should have had the grace to accept that she was wrong.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
She should've also had the grace to not be an a*****e to a kid who just lost a parent.
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#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.
#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.
Adrian 3 years ago
Yeah, the paraffin wax starts to solidify and clogs up the lines, injectors etc. A version of diesel fuel for very cold conditions should be used.
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3 years ago (edited)
In northwest Montana, it is currently -33° F near the continental divide. It's safe to say my diesel pickup isn't leaving the driveway (thank God for the gas Acadia today!)
M O'Connell 3 years ago
In places that are that cold it's not uncommon to have coolant take-off hoses whereby coolant from a running engine is pumped through a cold one to get it warm enough to start.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
In Europe we have "Winterdiesel". It's just diesel but with some additives to prevent the diesel from clogging. In the Netherlands it's available from mid November to the beginning of March. Oil companies supply the gas stations with "Winterdiesel" without even mentioning it.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I thought diesel has a higher freezing point then petrol which is why you need anti freeze. That's what we use when going to the snow in Australia, and the temperatures don't get as low here as the US.
martin734 3 years ago
The diesel doesn't freeze but it thickens into the consistency of golden syrup or honey and the fuel pumps can't pump it. Antifreeze is usually put into the coolant to stop it from freezing and cracking the engine block and head.
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#47
Not a teacher but a friend said his house blew away. Apparently... tornado.
Vanta Black 3 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."
Nathan Dennis 3 years ago
Especially if they lived in a more country-ish area, a tornado can hit a very small area for a very small amount of time, so small that no one would get notified
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(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.
Andy Acceber 3 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
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the stove in this stock photo! Gonna have to do some research into that for sure. If any Pandas know the brand, please let me know!
Elle O 3 years ago
https://www.appliancesconnection.com/ilve-upn60dmpgulp.html
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#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.
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Need context on this one. What country is this? Why anyone bomb threat a school???
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
The US, and after the September 11, 2001 attacks, a lot of false bomb threats were called into public schools.
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#50
“The cows got out. I had to wrangle them all up back into their pen.”
#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.
albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
We are proud of our service personnel; we just don't feel the need to wave 40' flags and holler at the top of our lungs about it.
Memere 3 years ago
U.S. citizen here - proud of my family members who've served, but I'll never be hollering about it, nor will I ever fly any size U.S. flag anywhere around my house. Also no flag stickers on the car. I'm not very proud of my country anymore.
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#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.
Bash 3 years ago
Unsure if OP is American, but this is how we’re conditioned from a young age. Illness isn’t an excuse, gotta get back to work (whether it be labor or schoolwork, our loyalty isn’t to our own health, sadly) One of the s**t side effects of capitalism 🤷🏼♂️
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BasedWang 3 years ago
Lol... New school. New school year. I'm on crutches.. The only person to get their schedule changed 4 times in the school. Find out that the class I walked into was no longer where I was supposed to be. Get my ass up to the correct classroom where the teacher is dicking me around about being a few minutes late... "So how come you werent on time?" me:" So theres these things called crutches..." He sat down shut up and continued class
#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.
#54
I teach Primary school (Year 4) in suburbia in Western Australia. Kids were late because they found a baby camel.
#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.
#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.
ima cat 3 years ago
https://www.autoblog.com/2015/11/19/car-thieves-kidnap-boy-drop-off-school/ This has happened more than once.
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#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)
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 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
#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.
#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.
Lou Lopez 3 years ago
It was a really weird thing to live through. For weeks, we had no idea if there would be another attack or where, if this was the start of a major world war, or what. All the horror of that day kind of got buried under the fear and uncertainty for a bit, and then it started to seep back into our lives. It was a heartbreaking thing and nothing good came out of it; only more death and destruction.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
He drove him to school while the country was still under attack? What the hell?
Kate 3 years ago
Yeah, I took the subway home after my manager showed up to close the shop for the day. In Los Angeles.
Load More Replies... Paula Marowsky 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah. County under attack, planes crashing on buildings, poeple jumping out burning buildings, buildings falling down, but kids are expected to go to school like nothing, because "rutine is good for them and help them cope with traumatic events" Right?
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
i remember that day well. My boss at the time kept yelling at us to get back to work and stop trying to check the news. When the school finally told everyone to go home, she rolled her eyes like it was the biggest overreaction ever. One of the few bosses i've ever actually hated.
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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!"
#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.
#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.
#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.
#64
“I got hit by a bus.” Turns out, he got hit by a bus.
#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.
#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.
Ellie Rosser 3 years ago (edited)
As if we care that Ron isn't his real name in the first place, just call him Ron and move on.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Two possible scenarios -1) zebra newborn was a stillborn and 2)black vultures have been observed killing calves. They are protected (the vultures) but you're allowed to shoot them if they attack your livestock.
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Kid was with his girlfriend in the hospital after accidentally giving her something with peanut butter. She was allergic.
Kate Johnson 3 years ago
It said "accidentally", so no crime for you to obsess over. None at all. Don't you give me that look!
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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.
Kate Johnson 3 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!
memyselfandI 3 years ago
I’ve technically been on the news twice, and just barely missed a third time. The one I missed I would have been interviewed if I was by the booth right then, one I basically just stood there for while other people talked, and one I got voluntold to do by the rest of my group because they had all started eating lunch already and I got out there late. It was the weather channel talking about how they were getting more temperate weather and pointing out the people who had come from a more temperate climate eating lunch outside the weather station.
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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.
Calane E. Vanya 3 years ago
BP taught me a lot about USA (I assume it's about the USA)... You really cannot attend a class if you lost or forgot your shoes? It's a student decision or teachers? Nobody decides to get through the day wearing socks? I'm just curious if it's about a shame or rules.
Lawrence Thatcher 3 years ago
Many schools have some form of dress code, which can often include rules about shoes (for instance: my middle school didn't allow flip-flops); albeit "my other shoe is atop a 3-story building" seems like a reasonable excuse... My guess is that they felt uncomfortable wearing only one shoe so wanted to get a different pair, leveraging the justification that some school administrator might not be understanding about a potential breach in the dress code.
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My bus hit a bird and the whole windshield was cracked. We had to wait for another bus to pick us up.
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
After cracking a wind shield? In what world?
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Jnm Genius 3 years ago (edited)
True, but that seems more like a policy thing from the school or bus company. I imagine the driver would've been penalized if they kept driving. (And had impaired visibility through the windshield)
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This was me as a student, my parents thought I get President's Day off so they didn't wake me up.
#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.
Lawrence Thatcher 3 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.
#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)
Kate Johnson 3 years ago
He drove off a cliff. So yeah, "only" a concussion, as opposed to the other possible outcomes, like never walking again, or never walking because the body was broken beyond repair. That kind of possibility.
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A friend of mine at school texted the teacher a photo of the screen at the airport showing his flight was delayed.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Probably the student had been away and was flying back to the city where they went to school.
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I had an instance that there was a traffic jam, because of a duck. A. Godanm duck.
Rijkærd 3 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...
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Next thing you kniw a pigeon would make someone late
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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.
#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.
Sareaesque 3 years ago
Lass in Geography had the same happen to her, she brought the remains in as evidence.
Lydia Owen the Bi-tch 3 years ago
I threw up on mine once...needless to say but getting drunk on vodka and trying to do homework was not a good idea
#78
My car froze shut. We had an ice storm and this was before the fancy power locks and keyless entry were a thing.
WilvanderHeijden 3 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.
Lawrence Thatcher 3 years ago
Sliding doors are the worst when frozen! I've had it happen more than once when trying to load our kids into the minivan with the door frozen shut only to have the door slide open on the freeway... For clarification: we would try to open the door, but it wouldn't open because the door was frozen, but the latch was now loose - which we couldn't fix because we couldn't move the door to try to close it either.
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#79
UK - a student couldn't submit an assignment on time as 'the wifi was down on the Megabus'.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
Has anyone actually ever gotten the wifi to work on the Megabus? Never succeeded myself.
Kaz 3 years ago
It's a heavily discounted cross UK bus service often used by students.
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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.
#81
Had to walk my cow.
Isabel Care 3 years ago
Trip driving from UK to Greece 1984, saw lots of little old ladies in black walking cows alongside the motorway in Yugoslavia. The verges had the most grass (polluted), so the cow was taken for a walk
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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.
#83
My goats got out.
#84
Thought it was Saturday.
#86
“I was eating watermelon”
#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.
Atchaco-Leigh 3 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.
What do you think ?
Adrian 3 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.
Jo Choto 3 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.
zububonsai 3 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!!!!
GoddessOdd 3 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.
Leo Domitrix 3 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.
Theo Blackwood 3 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.
Monique Reed 3 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...
Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 3 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.
ArchiBookworm 3 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.
Adrian 3 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.
Jo Choto 3 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.
zububonsai 3 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!!!!
GoddessOdd 3 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.
Leo Domitrix 3 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.
Theo Blackwood 3 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.
Monique Reed 3 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...
Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 3 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.
ArchiBookworm 3 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.
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