A nation-wide US survey by a company called CareerBuilder has found the country's craziest - but true - excuses for calling in sick.
1) A chicken attacked my mum.
2) My fingers are stuck in a bowling ball.
3) I had a hair transplant that has gone bad.
4) I fell asleep as my desk while working and hit my head, causing a neck injury.
5) A a cow broke into my house and I had to wait for the insurance man.
6) My girlfriend threw a Sit n Spin through my living room window.
7) My foot was caught in the garbage disposal.
8) Employee called in sick from a bar at 5pm the night before.
9) I'm not feeling too clever today.
10) I had to mow the lawn to avoid a lawsuit from the Home Owner’s Association.
11) I burned my mouth on a pumpkin pie (called in the day after Thanksgiving) .
12) I was in a boat on Lake Erie and ran out of gas - and the Coast Guard towed me to the Canadian side.
The final Curious © phrase:
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him”
(Cardinal Richelieu)
