I've heard almost every one of these before, or a variation of them, when I worked at the call center (I took the call-ins for the call center and the warehouse portions of the company, over 400 employees.) Nothing really surprises me anymore. 
One that I remember distinctly was a woman calling in due to a "cat scratch." Not a big cat, like a cougar...just a house cat. She apparently had to go to the hospital for it. I don't know if she had a bad reaction or what, but it actually happened twice; once right after I started working in the department that took call-ins, and once almost exactly a year later. I always thought that was a weird excuse.
Probably the stupidest/most infuriating thing I had to be late for was when my garage door froze shut. I was so pissed at my apartment's managers. We had had a really bad ice storm the day before, and overnight, the ice had frozen. And apparently the garage door didn't make a solid seal with the ground when it was closed, so a bunch of the rain water had seeped into my garage and frozen the door shut. I was about an hour late as I had to call maintenance and they took their sweet time coming over to help me. When we did get it open, my ENTIRE garage floor was GLARE ice. It took several days of me leaving the garage door open when the sun was shining, throwing salt on the garage floor, and chipping away at the ice and shoveling it out before I could safely walk in there without breaking my neck.

One that I remember distinctly was a woman calling in due to a "cat scratch." Not a big cat, like a cougar...just a house cat. She apparently had to go to the hospital for it. I don't know if she had a bad reaction or what, but it actually happened twice; once right after I started working in the department that took call-ins, and once almost exactly a year later. I always thought that was a weird excuse.
Probably the stupidest/most infuriating thing I had to be late for was when my garage door froze shut. I was so pissed at my apartment's managers. We had had a really bad ice storm the day before, and overnight, the ice had frozen. And apparently the garage door didn't make a solid seal with the ground when it was closed, so a bunch of the rain water had seeped into my garage and frozen the door shut. I was about an hour late as I had to call maintenance and they took their sweet time coming over to help me. When we did get it open, my ENTIRE garage floor was GLARE ice. It took several days of me leaving the garage door open when the sun was shining, throwing salt on the garage floor, and chipping away at the ice and shoveling it out before I could safely walk in there without breaking my neck.
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