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Today I was late to work. I stayed at my mother's house last night, she had to leave for work before me today. She managed to lock me in her house !
I did eventually get out - through the back door, up a fire escape and let through the upstairs neighbours house. But as the neighbours didn't answer the first time and I spent quite a long time trying to undo the lock from the inside (which looks like it should be possible but wasn't even with a hammer and pliers) I was about 20 minutes late.
Luckily my manager just said "I did that to my wife once".
I'm not sure what he'd have said if I'd have had to call out for the day through. My mother wouldn't have checked her phone until lunch, no one else could have let me out because of the double doors (shared hallway and her front door), and the only person with spare keys also works, and would have had to travel right across the city to get the keys, and then halfway back to the house.
I did it before too. 3 years ago I was late because I accidentally locked myself on my garden path. Keys were in the house, a 7 foot wall one side, a 7 foot hedge the other and a 6 foot gate at the end of it. I am not exactly fit and while I did eventually make it over the gate it took me quite a while. And as the only person who had spare keys didn't have a key to the gate I had to do it all in reverse in the evening (which was even harder, at one point I got stuck with my bottom pointing at the street and my head at my path and worried I'd end up needing the fire brigade to get me down). It was the day we had our Christmas party so it was quite late at night too
I once called out of college because the cat had caught a pigeon. Feathers all over the house, and an injured bird. It was a banded racing pigeon too so I was waiting in for the rescue centre to come and pick it up.
The worst excuse I've ever heard though was from a volunteer. He turned up a couple of times, then he started to call in with excuses. Firstly they were normal, then they got weaker and weaker, and finally :
"I can't come in today, I put my foot through the bath"
We never saw him again...
(Or for personal excuses - a friend of my mother's cancelled arrangements to go out twice saying a friend had fallen of a ladder. If you are going to use really wierd excuses you need to keep track of them, in my family we now call bailing on people "falling of a ladder").
At least all my wierd ones were true.
Victoria J
Today I was late to work. I stayed at my mother's house last night, she had to leave for work before me today. She managed to lock me in her house !
I did eventually get out - through the back door, up a fire escape and let through the upstairs neighbours house. But as the neighbours didn't answer the first time and I spent quite a long time trying to undo the lock from the inside (which looks like it should be possible but wasn't even with a hammer and pliers) I was about 20 minutes late.
Luckily my manager just said "I did that to my wife once".
I'm not sure what he'd have said if I'd have had to call out for the day through. My mother wouldn't have checked her phone until lunch, no one else could have let me out because of the double doors (shared hallway and her front door), and the only person with spare keys also works, and would have had to travel right across the city to get the keys, and then halfway back to the house.
I did it before too. 3 years ago I was late because I accidentally locked myself on my garden path. Keys were in the house, a 7 foot wall one side, a 7 foot hedge the other and a 6 foot gate at the end of it. I am not exactly fit and while I did eventually make it over the gate it took me quite a while. And as the only person who had spare keys didn't have a key to the gate I had to do it all in reverse in the evening (which was even harder, at one point I got stuck with my bottom pointing at the street and my head at my path and worried I'd end up needing the fire brigade to get me down). It was the day we had our Christmas party so it was quite late at night too
I once called out of college because the cat had caught a pigeon. Feathers all over the house, and an injured bird. It was a banded racing pigeon too so I was waiting in for the rescue centre to come and pick it up.
The worst excuse I've ever heard though was from a volunteer. He turned up a couple of times, then he started to call in with excuses. Firstly they were normal, then they got weaker and weaker, and finally :
"I can't come in today, I put my foot through the bath"
We never saw him again...
(Or for personal excuses - a friend of my mother's cancelled arrangements to go out twice saying a friend had fallen of a ladder. If you are going to use really wierd excuses you need to keep track of them, in my family we now call bailing on people "falling of a ladder").
At least all my wierd ones were true.
Victoria J
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