EXCUSES
Every teacher has heard thousands of excuses. Here's a collection of excuses that students have told me. They are true. Really.
* My homework is on my bed.
* It got caught in the door.
* My roommate threw it away.
* I left it under my mattress.
* Somebody stole it.
* It's at home - with my mind.
* There was a fire at my neighbor's house.
* It's in my other car.
* I got soap in my eyes and was blinded for the rest of the night.
* I got married over the weekend.
* I had to have my baby.
* I play volleyball and I left it at the competition.
* My brother and I got into a fight and he burned it on the stove.
* It got stuck in a drawer at home.
* It was so cold last night that we had to burn all of the pencils for heat.
* My mom put it away and now I can't find it.
* The car broke down on the expressway and my books are still in it.
* I gave it to the substitute.
* It's in the Stop-n-Go.
* I had it last period in Home Ec., but now I don't have it.
* My homework blew over into the neighbor's pool and got all wet.
* My homework was used to clean the dirty bottom of a baby.
* I left my books in Louisville. (Needless to say, Louisville is 100 miles away.)
* I don't have a pen because we had an hour delay.
* I don't have my homework because somebody cleaned my headquarters.
* The moisture from the dishwasher seeped through the counter and ruined my book.
My brother was sleeping with my homework in a locked room.
* The cleaning lady threw it away.
* My cousin took my typewriter.
* It's in a suitcase on its way to Hawaii.
* My friend forgot to do my homework.
*I won't be in class because my dog chipped my tooth.
* My car exploded and it burned up.
* It blew out the car window. Honest!
* I got my head caught in the power window of the car.
* There's a virus in my printer.
