Interpersonal communications class can be trying, needing to do a report on the best and worst excuses you have heard or told yourself. And what standards did you use to classify the excuses as bad or good. Any help. I'm the type of person who just says what is on my mind so I don't use excuses very much.
2006-10-27 18:09:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Best excuses fall into 2 categories. They are either true, or so funny that you laugh.
Worst ones are cliches or obvious lies.
As a teacher I have heard so many, but right now the only one I can think of that made me laugh was a student who said he sneezed on his homework, and as he has a highly infectious disease, the paper had to be destroyed by a medical officer to prevent other people getting sick. I laughed so much I let him off.
Good luck
2006-10-27 18:20:38 · answer #1 · answered by maggie_at0303 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best: A guy called his plant and said he couldn't come in to work that day because there was something wrong with his eyes. The supervisor asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" He answered, "I just can't see myself coming in to work today!"
Worst: A worker was chronically late. He always had a different excuse, and always blamed something or someone else. Finally someone told him, "If you'd leave your house five minutes earlier each day, you'd eventually find out when you have to leave to make it to work on time," He shot back, "I ALREADY DO THAT!!!"
Oh, I just saw you want me to explain why I thought they were best and worst. I thought the first was very good because it was really not an excuse. It was perfectly obvious that he either had not gotten enough sleep or drank too much the night before and while he wasn't being specific about the reason, he wasn't really blaming anyone else. It was a good application of humor, given the situation.
The second one was bad for the same reasons the first one was good. He blamed anything and everything except himself. The other one knew where the blame lay and just wasn't saying. This one can't even admit it to himself.
2006-10-28 01:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My worst excuse was that aliens abducted me and kept my homework as proof that there was no intelligent life on Earth. It was a bad excuse because no one believed it (nor were they expected to) and because I could have done the assignment with little more effort than the story took. I hesitate to call any excuse good. However, I did really enjoy calling in "sick" due to having given birth an hour before.
2006-10-28 01:16:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kuji 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a store in nyc. I had a friend who needed some work , he was in a bad position, so I gave him a job. one night i had to go to a business meeting, and I left him alone. I came back and the job was done so I paid him. Two days later I was checking a car in the shop, whose owner was on the way to pick it up. I turned on the headlights and they did not turn on. Make a long story short the Xenon headlamps, worth 900 were gone. When I questioned my friend he said it must have been his friend who he "let in to keep him company" So I said what a BS excuse and dealt with the loss......That was when I found out he was a pill head........
2006-10-28 01:23:31 · answer #4 · answered by myxodo05 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my first jobs I worked in a Human Relations Department. I had an early morning appointment with a job seeker. He missed his appointment. The next morning there is a message on the answering machine from him that went something like this "I missed my appointment because I could not find my clothes, and I was told that I would make a better impression if I wore them." He said he will call back when he finds them, he never called back.
2006-10-28 01:25:20 · answer #5 · answered by Julie A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Best: my cousin is in the hospital having a baby so I had to spend the time there being her labour coach because her boyfriend was out of town at the time. (for why I didn'thave an assignment. Best, because it was believable. My cousin was pregnant and her boyfriend did travel much. However, she was only six months along)
Worst: I sprained my ankle. I had to limp the ENTIRE time (to turn down a bloke who asked me to dance. He had dated my best friend, then cheated on her THEN asked me to dance...all at the same dance). And it was bad because I had to sit down the entire time and couldn't dance.
I know...I am a coward.
2006-10-28 02:26:45 · answer #6 · answered by Smo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Worst: Customer Service saying, that "I'd like to Help with your call but I Can't".
Best: I'm Ditching Work to go to a Ballgame
2006-10-28 01:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by tfoley5000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One time I stayed out all night when I was a teenager, and told my mother I was sleeping in the Arby's parking lot in the car....needless to say, this falls in the worst category!
2006-10-28 01:17:41 · answer #8 · answered by qamberq 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best excuse.... I told a teacher....
I was running late to school and i almost missed the bus and my backpack open and all my paper flew away. I think the paper that i was un able to save was your homework. can i bring it tommorrw?
I was able to turn it in the next day!
2006-10-28 01:19:15 · answer #9 · answered by Curious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In one of my classes a girl was unable to hand in her homework because her backpack had been confiscated by the police as evidence in a criminal investigation. She had the receipt from the police to prove it.
2006-10-28 01:17:55 · answer #10 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋