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A new Reddit thread is reminding us that people will say just about anything to get out of work. It asks, “What is the most unusual excuse you’ve ever heard of from somebody calling off work?” Close to 4-thousand responses have come in - and some of them are even true, because weird stuff happens all the time.

These are some of the best, but unbelievable reasons people had for missing work.

"I was once late to work because I was glued in my apartment. They replaced the carpet in the common hallway overnight, and were too enthusiastic with the glue by my door. I had to wait until maintenance arrived at 8 a.m., so they could body slam the door from the outside."
"My grandparents had a medical emergency years ago where one got stuck on the toilet, and when the other tried to help, they fell and knocked themselves unconscious. My employer demanded details and didn't believe me because it sounded like an ‘SNL’ skit."
"Flushed my car key down the toilet. It was me, and I certainly did."
"Got bit on the finger by a squirrel while tossing a coffee cup into a parking garage trashcan."
"A guy I worked with in retail 15 years ago called in to say he had a nightmare and didn't think he'd be able to get back to sleep and come in to work five hours later."
"I was running a shift and had a girl call in sick, saying she was too distraught to work because Zayn had left One Direction."
"I had to call in late once because my stairs were gone. Of course, it was a huge violation by the condo, and we had no way out of our second-story walk-up. Absolutely ridiculous, and fortunately, the photos I sent my boss were enough to excuse my tardiness."
"I once had an employee call to say they would be late because a plane hit their car. Turns out they live next to a small private airfield. A drunk pilot was coming in to land and mistook the road for a runway.”
"They dropped a frozen turkey on their bare foot."
"A plane landed on the expressway, preventing traffic from using the road."
“I called out once because there was a scorpion in my bed that stung me 10+ times and I was in a helicopter being med-evac’d.”
"I called in late to work once. I got fake nails for the first time for a wedding. When I was in the shower, exfoliating my face, I stuck one of those fake nails up my nose and sliced it open. It was bleeding a ton. My boss started calling me Edward Scissorhands!"

Source: Reddit⠀

Bob Delmont