Late for work excuses

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · May 18, 2015

Speaking of cats, I was late to work one time because one ran under the wheels of my car on the way to work. I tried to rescue it and nearly got hit myself. I did succeed in moving the poor kitty to the side of the road, but I felt AWFUL and wished I had the time to try to find the owner. As it was, I was nearly forty-five minutes late and my coworkers were not happy with me.

rnsrgr8t · May 18, 2015

I was late to work one time b/c I had a bird in my house!!! I was getting ready for work when I noticed all three of my cats where in my closet looking up. I looked in and there was a black bird sitting on the rack!!! My looking in there got it all scared and it was flying frantically in my room (with my cats chasing it). I was able to get the kitties out of my room and shut the door (no small feat) and open up one of my windows and with some luck it flew out the window. I remember texting one of my coworkers saying " I am going to be a little late b/c I had a bird in my room...no seriously!!!". We got a big laugh out of it. Never figured out how it got in my house!!

lovetosleep · May 18, 2015

I used to live in a terrible neighborhood. I got stuck in my house because there was a dead body along with the coroner van and tons of police blocking my driveway. My boss didn't believe me when and told me to stop making excuses. It was on the news later and they ended up apologizing to me later.

ixchel · May 18, 2015

I used to live in a terrible neighborhood. I got stuck in my house because there was a dead body along with the coroner van and tons of police blocking my driveway. My boss didn't believe me when and told me to stop making excuses. It was on the news later and they ended up apologizing to me later.

How utterly ridiculous that they didn't believe you! That's an incredibly verifiable excuse, and so completely wild that I'm not sure a person would actually make that up.

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pixiestudent2 · May 18, 2015

I used to live in a terrible neighborhood. I got stuck in my house because there was a dead body along with the coroner van and tons of police blocking my driveway. My boss didn't believe me when and told me to stop making excuses. It was on the news later and they ended up apologizing to me later.

You'd have to be a very sick person to make something like that up as an

Excuse. I can't believe they would think you'd lie about that.

pixiestudent2 · May 18, 2015

Tenebrae, BSN, RN · May 18, 2015

Pot hole dodging became a daily thing for us following the earthquakes 2011........ Going the speed limit of 50kms would have a driver airbourne.

The best late excuse was several years ago when went outside to go to work and couldnt get my steering wheel lock off the car. I had to ring work and say "the steering wheel lock I bought in store wont come off my car"

Fortunately they refunded me

ixchel · May 18, 2015

Dear NoADLs,

Use this one next.

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Footballnut · May 21, 2015

I needed to stay home a little longer to keep the cat off my special white hand-tied Oriental carpet. She was having kittens that morning and kept wanting to go to the carpet to birth them. The day charge nurse was not happy!

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · May 21, 2015

Footballnut said:

I needed to stay home a little longer to keep the cat off my special white hand-tied Oriental carpet. She was having kittens that morning and kept wanting to go to the carpet to birth them. The day charge nurse was not happy!

Yea, I think I'd have either found some way to keep the cat away from the carpet (roll it up, close a door, put down plastic) or use another excuse. From an animal lover and lifetime owner of cats, dogs, mice, hamsters, fish, insects, birds and probably a couple more species. . .

cardiacfreak, ADN · May 21, 2015

I live in a town with lots of train tracks, it is always a believable excuse.

klcrn1987 · Oct 13, 2015

I never told the "real" reason... told the supervisor I got hung up in traffic but... truth be told.... my Hubby and I got a bit frisky after I got out of the shower before I got ready for work and I had to re-shower!!!