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Would YOU use these excuses to stay home from work?

I have to embalm and wrap my dead mother.

My mother is ill.

My wife/daughter is having her period so I have to stay home to help around the house.

I was bitten by a scorpion.

I have to stay home to make offerings to the gods to improve my health.

I have to fetch stones for the scribe.

I have to brew some beer.

(The above are all excuses to stay home from work discovered on a limestone ostracon listing workers in ancient Egypt and their reasons for staying home from work on certain dates.)

I am SO glad to be able to provide you with some new, (old), excuses...🤣🤣🤣
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Oh my😏🤭
Thanks for giving me some good laughs...

I can actually see someone using that 3rd one in a heartbeat by things people tell me about their coworkers and their menagerie of excuses!😳
4meAndyou · F
@MoonlightLullaby You are most welcome! Personally, I would like to have called in and have told my boss I had to brew some beer...🤣🤣🤣. The only difference would have been that in ancient Egypt I would NOT have been fired...🤣🤣🤣
There's nothing new under the sun.
4meAndyou · F
@PhoenixPhail Yes...and at $1000 per class, I was not going to buy another opportunity to use gas powered soldering guns...🤣
@4meAndyou WOW. That's quite expensive.
I don't blame you for not buying another class.
4meAndyou · F
@PhoenixPhail Yes, but at $1000 per class, they will let just anybody in...😁
antonioioio · 70-79, M
I'm lucky enough to be in a job that I love 😊
CommandLine · 61-69, M
Couldn't use my mother is ill, as she is dead.
I could just put my wife is ill, that wouldn't always be an excuse as it has often been true.
If I tried
I have to stay home to make offerings to the gods to improve my health.

I have to fetch stones for the scribe.

It would prove to them that I am completely mad and would send the men in the white coats to cart me off. It may happen one day though.
Idk what to type after getting to know these new (old) excuses. Yet, thanks.
akindheart · 61-69, F
I will be in Egypt next week. i can't wait to see this one.
4meAndyou · F
@akindheart The tablet, (ostracon), is at the British Museum, in London.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou I have been there many times. I will have to check it out the next time i am there
Driver2 · M
How about the volcano?
4meAndyou · F
@Driver2 I would say being killed by a volcano is a fabulous excuse!!!
Driver2 · M
@4meAndyou no just say you couldn’t get past the lava flow
DrWatson · 70-79, M
I will definitely try that last one!
4meAndyou · F
@DrWatson I noticed nobody else picked up on that one! 🤣🤣🤣 Did you know they found an ancient recipe for Egyptian beer, inscribed on a clay tablet? AND they put it into modern production!!! It's called Pharoah Ale!

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/zymurgy/pharaoh-ale-brewing-a-replica-of-an-ancient-egyptian-beer/

Here is a link showing the beer making done using a similar recipe at the British Museum:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/sip-history-ancient-egyptian-beer
Unfortunately when my mother was ill I used that excuse many times
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
My mother is ill seems legit enough though.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti Yup. Then...and now...still works!!!
SW-User
In the last three years, called in once with the valid and truthful one. I was at Emergency with my son.

And we all know those you posted will most likely not fly! lol
SW-User
@4meAndyou It's more valid than offerings to the gods. lol
@4meAndyou Beer was a staple back then, it kept them alive.
4meAndyou · F
@UnderLockDown Yup. I hear they drank it instead of water. 😊
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4meAndyou · F
@RogueLoner Leave 'em guessing! 🤣

 
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