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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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.