LOLZ: Some common Excuses

Sorry ma’am, my sister’s/cousin’s wedding kept me engaged so I could not complete my assignment. Please, just give me one more day to finish it.”

This is one of the reasons given at school when students do not come up with their assigned task on the fixed day.

Making up excuses is an easy way to escape the wrath of teachers. Students try to cover up their inadequacy with different
justifications, which can vary from “I was sick” to “There was no light in our house”.

Often teachers are wise enough to realise which excuses are genuine and which have been made up on the spur of the moment to get out of trouble. Some excuses don’t work because they are too unbelievable and the person giving them just doesn’t sound convincing enough.

Sickness is one of the most common, oldest and universally used excuses, favoured by people of all ages. Besides being sick on the ‘sick days’, after availing the leave or before it students try to show how sick they are and try to perform everything slowly, appear very dull and down, so that teachers believe them.

Family functions are another much-favoured excuses that keep children so busy that homework takes a backseat. What can you do if there are birthdays, parties, get-togethers, weddings, etc., taking place almost every week? A teacher has to understand the importance of all these occasions, after all, it’s all about family!

While many a times this actually happens and hampers a child from learning for a test or completing an assignment on time, children relay on this excuse even when they were playing video games instead of studying.

Load-shedding is a genuine excuse that no one can disbelieve. Everyone knows that the rampant outage of electricity is at its peak due to which not only students but also businesses have been affected. So even if you have a UPS or generator at home, your teacher doesn’t know it….

Why is it that every time you are so close to finishing your project only then this particular bug enters your computer and corrupts your files. If not the internet, then it has to be the PC which is the culprit that ruins your ‘hard work’.

Last, but not the least among the common excuses by students is, “I forgot to bring my project”. And guess what? On the D-day, your teacher glares at you, and when your meek expression won’t work, think about something better to explain to your parents when they see a big ‘F’ in the report card!