Homework Excuses
I used to have the best homework excuses in the world. They were of course "hand-me-downs" from my sister Bonnie, but the were the best nevertheless.
I recently purchased a book titled The Greatest Homework Excuse Book Ever. Apparently the author never talked to any of my teachers because, my excuses were far superior. Whenever students would give me an excuse as to why they could not turn in their homework, I would always tell them that I had far better excuses when I was a kid.
My experiences in education have given me an opportunity to both use and hear tons of excuses. I will share a few.
1. I was babysitting last night and the baby threw up on it.
2. I was babysitting last night and the house caught on fire and I had to decide what to save.. the baby or my homework. I chose the baby. (I remember a few girls in my class asking me whose children I babysat)
3. I had to attend my great uncle's funeral.
4. My brother made an airplane out of it and flew it out the window.
5. I wasn't allowed to do it.
6. The dog ate it.
7. I was working on it outside when it started to rain. I ran inside, left it out there and then it blew away.
8.Neither my mom or my dad understood it.
9. It was in my backpack this morning, it isn't there now.... I think it got stolen.
10. The teacher never told me to do it. I don't know how everyone else knew, but the teacher never told me.
If there are any other praiseworthy excuses out there, please share!
6 comments:
I didn't do it because I didn't want to add to my teacher's heavy workload.
My mom's whooping cough vaccination wore off and we had to go to the hospital.
I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
I hired a paper writing company and they did it in Chinese.
I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.
I needed a mental health day.
I made a paper plane out of it and it got hijacked.
My Dad accidentally put it in his briefcase and took it to work.
I put it in the safe, but lost the combination.
I have the mathematical proof, but there isn't room to write it in the margin.
I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy
I left it at Mom's house when she took me back to Dad's house.
I loaned it to a friend, but he moved away.
My printer broke and my disk is corrupted. Unfortunately my computer crashed this morning as well.
I left it in my shirt and my mother put the shirt in the wash.
My internet access was down (for emailed assignments).
I was kidnapped by terrorists and they only just let me go, so I didn't have time to do it.
Another student fell in a lake, and I jumped in to rescue him but unfortunately my homework drowned.
It was in my back pocket and a pickpocket stole it.
I left it in a hymn book in the choir loft, having used it to mark my solo.
I left it in the back of the truck when we went deer hunting.
My flash drive exploded..
I dropped it in the toilet accidentally and it got flushed.
I gave it to a homeless man so that he could tape it together and use it as a blanket.
I feel embarrassed now at having used so many of these excuses as well as being embarrassed by teahcing my younger sister to do the same. I obviously put a lot of time into thinking up great excuses. Perhaps my time could have been better used at actually doing my homework,
I thought you were a perfect student always did their homework. In high school my favorite excuse was "I'm not emotionally prepared to do this assignemnet yet." Of course it always worked because I only took art classes.. and an art teacher knows about the emotion behind a painting. Mr Bartholomew liked my excuses.
So is the excuse that you were not allowed to do it real or fake?
I actually heard "I wasn't allowed to do it." It was an assignment on graphing Halloween candy. Some poor child wasn't allowed to go trick or treating or eat candy.
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