Homework Excuses

• I didn't do my history homework because I don't believe in dwelling on the past.

• I didn't want the other kids in the class to look bad.

• A sudden gust of wind blew my homework out of my hand and I never saw it again.

• Another pupil fell in a lake and I jumped in to rescue him. Unfortunately, my homework drowned.

• Our furnace broke and we had to burn my homework to keep ourselves from freezing.

• I'm not at liberty to say why.

• I wanted to frame the detention letter you're about to give me.

• It was destroyed in a freak accident involving a hippo, a toaster, and a bag of frozen peas. You don't want to know the details.

• I have a solar-powered calculator, and it was cloudy.

• I made a paper plane out of it and it got hijacked.

• My mom used it as a dryer sheet.

• My agent won't allow me to publish my homework until the movie deal is finalized.

• It's against my religion to do any homework.

• I was abducted by green-skinned, three-eyed, pig-snouted space aliens, and they incinerated my homework with their death rays.

• I felt it wasn't challenging enough.

• My parents were sick and unable to do my homework last night. Don't worry, they have been suitably punished.

• We had homework?!

• I see your lips moving, but all I am hearing is "blah, blah, blah."

• I didn't want to add to your already heavy workload.

• I spent the night at a rally supporting higher pay for our hard-working teachers.