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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...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ
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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
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4meAndyou 路 F
@SW-User I liked the one where he had to stay home because he was brewing beer...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ
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SW-User
@4meAndyou It's more valid than offerings to the gods. lol
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UnderLockDown 路 M
@4meAndyou Beer was a staple back then, it kept them alive.
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4meAndyou 路 F
@UnderLockDown Yup. I hear they drank it instead of water. 馃槉
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