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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...🤣🤣🤣
MoonlightLullaby · 41-45, F
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...🤣🤣🤣
CommandLine · 56-60, 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.
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 😊
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
Idk what to type after getting to know these new (old) excuses. Yet, thanks.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
My mother is ill seems legit enough though.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti Yup. Then...and now...still works!!!
Unfortunately when my mother was ill I used that excuse many times
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
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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