The Book of Slack Project: Excuses for All Occasions

this is currently a list of excuses.. as time goes on it will have some commentary added

 

Book of Slack: The Excuse list

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und3rtaker’s Book of Slack

"Too Lazy For Slack";

 Part of the Signature of a friend from an Internet forum site www.antionline.com

 

This is not to say the I am lazy just some time we all will find excuses, while they seem like darn good reasons at the time, to delay, put off, avoid, something in our life.  This Project was started to help myself deal with my own excuse making.

 

Quote: An excuse is a reason laced with a lie

 

I won’t claim ownership for many of these “excuses”.  Some are from family, friends, workmates, acquaintances, customers and suppliers. 

 

Late for work:

 

Me late starting? What about you’re early too quitting.

I don’t get a lunch hour, I’m paid for 38hrs, so I don’t see the need to work an extra 6 hrs per week.

My Wife was exceptionally emotional this morning and I needed to hold her hand for half an hour.

Well truth be known.  I had to hold the hand with the carving knife until the sedatives kicked in.

I didn’t realize how hard it was to get blood off of Vinyl floors.

You said you would appreciate the staff being here at 8:30am, NOT, we HAD to be here at 8:30.

What do you mean “We don’t Flexi-time here”?!

I did tell the customer I didn’t start until 9am, he just thought I listened to the Boss.

            What! You were sarcastic when YOU said “I could turn up when ever I please”

            Had an extra chapter of my book to finish before posting off today.

 

 

Not Wanting to Work Weekends:

 

Late project:

            The Parts are on back order

            We couldn’t get the AutoCAD files updated.

            The Data was in the wrong format and needed to be recollected.

            The Data was in the wrong format and needed to be re entered

            Look we all know that a this sort of thing can not be ready in under 6 weeks

            Some customers have unreal expectations of what these products can do.

 

Not Finishing or Doing a Task:

 

            There were no men here, only Glenn

 

Not Having a product in stock.

            Just sold out

            That was the last one.

            Stock is in transit, should be here after the sale finishes/after the holidays/ after Christmas.

            You didn’t ask us to hold one for you.

            It is an unreliable model, the only stock available now is refurbished new equipment.

            There is a change of model, new stock will be delayed

            Transport strike, all deliveries are delayed.

            Courier/Transport have not been today.

 

 

Painting the House: Well.. Not getting started or continuing once started

            Started to rain

            Kept Raining

            Didn’t get enough drying time between Rain

            Had an argument with the wife over colours

            The Grinder Burnt out

            The Grinder Burnt out and gave me an electric shock

            Ran out of sandpaper

            Ran out of Primer

            Ran out of Paint

            Needed to re sand the wall because we used the wrong primer

            Was bitten by Green Ants couldn’t work for a couple of days.

            Sprained my ankle getting off the Trestle

            I injured my knees doing some paving now I can’t climb the trestles

            Too hot for the paint

            Too Cold for the paint

            Too Cold for me to paint..

-         Arthritis in my Knees

-         Arthritis in my elbow

Got the Flu

Hayfever

Dambed.. I started to paint and it bloody well started to rain again.

Dust Storm.. couldn’t paint

Too windy

 

 

Entries from Our teenage Daughter:

 

 All my friends have one

Purple was the only colour

We don't have any home work, the teacher will be away tomorrow.

The assignment isn't due for another week

Honest, I will pay you back.

My Part time job isn't paying enough, I need a serious loan for some urgent stuff.. (movies, cloths)

Thats not mine, a friend must have put it there.

Classic: "No one told me That"

They don't teach that at school anymore.

The Teacher didn't cover that last year.

I do try to concentrate in class, it's just that my friends seem to be always getting into trouble and I get the blame.

I am always on time to class, the teacher is always early (where have I heard that one.)

 

School excuses:

Original- my dog ate my homework

I lost it

My dad spilt his coffee on it

My granddad fell seriously ill

 

 

Why I am sun burnt

 Because I was a passenger in the car and I was sitting in the front seat of the car, in the sun. I was in a Car OK...

It was cloudy day and the sun wasn’t out

My sun cream had expired

I didn’t know you had to reapply the sunscreen every couple of hours

 

Why we were late to class

 Lost track of time

Couldn’t hear the bell, was out on the oval

A girl was upset in the toilets, so we had to be with her for moral support

Girl problems

Helping the tuck shop lady

My watch had stopped

My watch was 10 mins Slow

 

 

 

 

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