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20 January 2009

Bogus reasons to call in sick. →[More:]It's snowing, a rare occurrence around here. I want to stay home and do inauguration-type things. The schools are closed, and sometime in the next hour I'll find out if my office is. In my pre-coffee haze, I considered calling in due to bedhead.

What's the most suspect excuse you've used when calling in sick?

post by: Stewriffic at: 06:28 | 17 comments

you have the cutest bedhead i have ever seen, :P

posted by By the Grace of God 20 January | 06:30

What a fab bedhead! Can't you say you must stay home and sort out that hair?

posted by dabitch 20 January | 06:31

I love today's bedhead. I first had this out-of-control bedhead over the weekend, and I have to say I wish I could just walk around like this. I mean, I suppose I *could* but not without pesky, invasive questions and funny looks.

posted by Stewriffic 20 January | 06:37

I called work saying I went to a party the night before and woke up in a pasture near a town about 20 miles away. Well, it could happen. In that event, instead of bedhead, I would have had shithead.

posted by Ardiril 20 January | 07:16

Ha! Awesome.

My hair is short enough that I never get bedhead, but I do some days wake up with Bluto beard.

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Back in my misspent youth, I once considered calling in sick with acute vodka poisoning, but thought better of it.

posted by BoringPostcards 20 January | 07:19

one of these days, photo friday should be of all our bedheads.

I'd win, btw.

posted by bunnyfire 20 January | 07:33

I'd win, btw

Oh yeah?

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posted by jonmc 20 January | 07:39

HELL YEAH SNOW DAY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(p.s. jon, I still think I win.)

posted by Stewriffic 20 January | 07:41

SNOW DAY FOR THE BIG SHOW DAY IN NORTH CAROLINA!!!!!!

posted by msali 20 January | 07:58

That's right, msali! I get to go to the parade!

posted by Stewriffic 20 January | 08:01

This reminds me of some pictures a friend had me take for his French class: J'étais en retard, mais j'ai une bonne excuse.

Also, here is my bedhead.

posted by Specklet 20 January | 08:18

HA! The week of excuses is awesome, Specklet. I love the spontaneous combustion one ("I feel better now")

posted by gaspode 20 January | 09:07

What's the most suspect excuse you've used when calling in sick?

"I have been partying all night and I am still very drunk."

posted by Meatbomb 20 January | 09:52

When I was assistant manager of the warehouse of a record store, one of my guys called in claiming a religious holiday "in honour of the great god Ganja." I figured we weren't paid enough for me to give him a hard time (and weren't paid at all when we were off sick), so let him continue with his observances, asking him to put in an extra prayer for me. Besides, I'd called in the Sunday before claiming to be dead.

I, too, love those excuses, Specklet.

posted by elizard 20 January | 10:23

Awesome! I've always wanted to do an art show of bed head 8x10 b&w with a big black bar over ppl's eyes.

posted by chewatadistance 20 January | 10:31

That would ROCK, chewie.

posted by BoringPostcards 20 January | 10:33

When I was eighteen told a co-worker (not the boss) that I had the "Bacardi flu."

posted by D.C. 20 January | 15:00

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