Thursday, 18 December 2014

Good Excuses

I hated homework.  I rarely did it, which is why I am in a job cleaning carpet, rather than designing space stations for NASA.  Or discovering the cure for cancer.  Or writing my nobel prize acceptance speech - you get the idea.  The part about homework I hated most was the excuses I had to offer.  I usually never got further than "I forget it".  Unlike the comic strip characters, I never had a dog trained to eat homework.

This line of thought was prompted by an interesting occurrence at the carpet cleaning company at which I currently work.  Names have been changed to protect the guilty.  Photos have been scribbled out to safeguard the identity of parties concerned.  But how is this for a really good excuse for making someone fill in a form again?

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