Teachers Share The Wildest Excuses Students Ever Gave For Being Late To Class - (r/AskReddit)

like and subscribe right now or else this will be in your bed tonight our /oscar edit by planet reddit teachers had read it what was the best excuse for being late that turned out to be true hum I had a student whose father had died and had not done any homework or prep for the geography class from what I heard the teacher scolded him for not doing so but the student didn't want to say anything presumably sensitive issue so his best friend shouted at the teacher don't you have any shame his father died last nights and the teacher said I don't care there was an audible gasp and I was in the next room needless to say that teacher is no longer employed here my sophomore year in high school dad died I missed a week of school when I got back I tried to turn in my English assignment that was due the week I was out teacher wouldn't accept it said it was late I told her my father had just died and that's why I was out she said I know but it's still late went home told my mother the next day the principal my guidance counselor and the super independent had all contacted my teacher to rip her a new one she had to accept my assignment she was salty about that the rest of the year that's craziness teachers like that should not be teaching she had to take her sister to school and drive her mum to rehab she was always late to class because her mom just wanted to sleep in problem was if the mom was late or did not go she would have violated her probation and gone to prison I never marked her late if she missed anything important she could come in at lunch or after school to make it up student here I headed into school early to get some studying done in the library before my night class I was one exit away when I was caught in a three-car accident most of the expressway afterwards was gridlock with only one lane left open I did eventually make it into my lab class 15 minutes late with a few scrapes and bruises my professors reaction was simply oh that was you was he the one who hit you not a student but one of my teaching assistants when I a preschool in West Philly sorry I missed yesterday my friend shot my mom naturally I'm a little speechless oh no it's okay he was aiming for someone else when I was a manager at a pizza place one of the employees had the same excuse and attitude except he was the one who got shot he lived in North Philly though it's cool he said my bad harm well okay then tis but a scratch I was one of about 20 kids who were late to school we showed up at the school office as a group and when questioned why we were late we said the school bus blew up they questioned so the engine blew up the kids know the whole bus in flames it blew up there was much conference between the teachers all of them thinking we embellished the story next thing you know one of the admin staff has the news website open very obvious image of an entire bus on fire with a bunch of kids in our school uniform standing in front of it our late slip for class read school bus blew up if that happened I would walk home if you could walk a guy in my college class missed class one day the next day he came in with his eye covered up and medical paperwork in hand apparently he got kept in the eye by a chicken school sporting event kid on our team was late because someone stole his windshield wipers and it was snowing out kept having to pull over to the side of the road and wipe off his windshield row that's a real bastard that swiped his wipers on a snowy day told me he got pulled over by the cops for what be driving on his bike and they thought he was drunk turned out he was just dodging all the slugs on the street good man watching out for the slug ease they like to traverse the walkway in front of my house at night so I always have to shine a flashlight so I don't step on them after 9:00 stroke 11 my small-town high school received bomb threats every week for two months and they decided to make us attend school on a Saturday myself and about five others showed up for our classes and every teacher said something like I can't wait for the excuses on Monday most of the excuses were something along the lines of family plans or whatnot but one kid was made Reid his dad's note aloud to the class because our first period teacher thought it was hilarious in the most down-south accent you can imagine it went something like my son ain't too smart but he knows you ain't supposed to get punished for someone else being a dumb bus bought him a six-pack so he was drunk you all can duck off I wish we had smartphones to record back then so I could share it I'm not the teacher but we were told that he had a paramedic student along their way to write their final exam rolled their car into a creek picked up whatever books they had out of their car and ran the rest of the way to class obviously got there late and in tears you better believe they had a different exam date I missed my Sat once because the school bus got stuck in the ice it was a residential school so they didn't take snow days when I was student teaching I was late because there was bunch chickens in the middle of the road they wouldn't move at all this is in the middle of a city of 200,000 people freaking chickens I finally get to school and profusely apologize to my mentor teacher and I told her why I was late thinking it sounded ridiculous she said yeah those chickens are ducking a-holes they surrounded my car in the McDonald's parking lot last year don't worry about ya those chickens are ducking a-holes they surrounded my car in the McDonald's parking lot last year don't worry about they were protesting them a chicken sandwich I had a six-year-old turn up late to her lesson and blurt out sorry I was late I had to color in a bunny seems fair can't blame her coloring the bunny is an important job after all sounds like she has her priorities in order MTV paid me $50 to fill my backpack with cement and carry it around for the day I accepted that excuse student later regretting it as a replacement backpack and college textbooks far exceeded $50 but he got his moment of fame and I didn't penalize him for his tardy got a liver little edit someone found a newspaper article on this turns out it was $200 he earned $100 for the first day and $100 when he returned the next day I remembered $50 but it was 19 years ago so ha I was right to believe him he still lost all his stuff thanks cement and I remember him telling me it wasn't worth it and edit typos what kind of idiot doesn't take his books out first it was part of the requirements as he explained it probably sounded exciting at the time hey you guy on the street let's fill your backpack right now it's included his notebooks and everything in high school I bike to class one day I hit a rock and ate absolute [ __ ] I obviously got to class late before I could say a word my teacher stopped class and said thank you for finally joining us why are you so late I raised my heavily bloodied hands and elbows it must have looked bad because she audibly gasped and rushed me to the school nurse apologizing non-stop the entire way edit maybe I'm not a teacher I slipped while cutting my Apple up before a soil science lab it was a medium cut but there was no make up lab available for this experiment because it was the first of three weeks experiments wrapped it up in toilet paper and figured I'd use the first aid kit in the lab history stupid [ __ ] worst case scenario and disinfected it didn't hurt much but it just wouldn't chew out it was also winter so I put gloves on and went to catch the bus ten minute ride to the Uni by the time I got to the lab there was blood everywhere it was a small but very deep cut I showed up the lab on time but my professor took one took at the blood dripping down my arm and said ma you bringing yourself here but Christ go to the clinic my prof started my experiment for me literally just making mud milkshakes for an hour and every subsequent lab would ask if I was missing any limbs that morning my auto teacher let me practice removing and adding the tyres on his vehicle the next morning it was about 20 minutes into first period and no sign of him he comes running into the classroom out of breath and his hair is all messed up he points at me and says you what is a torque wrench used for I respond with I don't know he said I know you don't know turns out one of his tires came off while driving down the highway honesty that's on him you're an idiot if you don't check behind the student on something like that so he didn't check your work before he drove that's on him you're a student bear on the back yard no access gate Animal Control had to tranq it from the room and drag it through the house made the news got to retake the test I missed after sending her the news article still have access to the article I kind of want to see it too I was the kid physics 11th grade the day prior to this day my neighbor passed away and her son was a friend of mine and also in this class terribly long story but it was a suicide by hanging and I was the one who found her I had nightmares all night and skipped the first half of school the next day when my physics teacher saw me later she asked where I was that morning before I could explain she said that friend was looking for you and concerned he seemed more worried than he should have been under was a little upset about you not being there the guy's mom died but he still went to class and didn't tell anyone but was worried about me I couldn't tell her what had happened at that point so I just said I overslept in my hometown if you walked into anywhere late and said the phrase sorry grain train you were never challenged it was extremely common for 50-plus carriage trains to run through the middle of town where I am we have a similar problem with farmers transporting huge loads on the tiny 1.5 lane roads round here in their defense they will pull in when a tailback forms and let people pass but quite often were talking a tractor with two trailers loaded two cars wide with hail whatever it is those kinds of large lay-bys are few and far between we have the same thing in my hometown except it's the bridge was up that bridge is notorious for not following a schedule and always being up when you're in a hurry edit thanks for all the cake day wishes had no idea it was today woke up to 5k plus up votes which is insane because it's my most upvoted comment ever long also the town is all aboard in Denmark I'm pink a fair-skinned student age 10 went with a friend to the Holi festival at a nearby Hindu temple where she was covered with red powder and dyed bright red from head to toe her mother another teacher at the school had made her sit for hours in the bathtub to soak it off but even after another round of early morning shower scrubbing she arrived at school a pleasant shade of pink technically she wasn't late but he stayed in her mother's classroom until the bell rang teachers kids basically live in a rule of society or an extremely strict one teacher prosecutor judge and pastor I had a chemistry professor show up about 15 minutes late just when people were about to leave he shows up and explains that he was just in a car accident his car had been in a rollover and he still showed up he said he was okay he drove a Volvo had a sociology prof in college who was never late for anything one day we showed up for class and he wasn't there after five minutes or so we are reading the handbook to find out what level of professor he was and found that he was an associate professor and in title - ten minutes wait a few seconds before his time expired her voice came from under his desk saying today we are going to discuss withdrawn personalities he conducted the whole class from under his desk ro wasn't expecting that was he just role-playing a withdrawn personality or was there more to it I was the student my neighbour had a really social goat and she figured out how to escape her pen in order to come over and hang out she escaped and followed me to the bus stop and when the bus came she tried to follow me onto it I couldn't actually get on the bus without her being right behind me so I had to get off bring her home and call my dad to bring me to school edit spelling my neighbour had a really social goat is the best thing I've read today thank you law form a student here sorry boss my stepdad tried to kill us last night and I had to deal with the cops professor just looked at me for a moment and said dude do you want to like go grab a drink and talk about this after class ma'am my English prof was a bro when I was in college I'm all good now ah yeah dude's been dead now about eight years he didn't take care of himself his alcoholism finally caught up with him I had to pick the pieces up from what he left behind and in the process learned a lot about Who I am and what I can do it took a few years to get my head on straight and learn that life isn't just one big crisis lots of time analyzing my reactions and the events I found myself in therapy psychiatric help the works I'm in a much better and healthier place and that event was about a decade ago I've blossomed into a weird yet passionate and functional adults a provider for those that need help and a mentor and friend I wish things had been different growing up but I'm happy with how I turned out despite all the us thank you for asking my best friend and I used to roller skate to school and one day we both forgot to put our shoes in our backpacks so we skated to the vice principal's office and got to skate first period to go home for shoes we stopped at Taco Bell on the way back for breakfast because we figured we were already excused I had a teacher in high school that would tell us if we're gonna be late to pick up coffee because two minutes late is the same as 15 that's what my first period teacher says now long doesn't matter whether you come in two minutes late or an hour late it's counted the same UK a student couldn't submit an assignment on time as the Wi-Fi was down on the mega bus edit chairs for all the love and I'll be sure to tell the student his mega bus mishap is relatable across the globe standard to be honest wait there's Wi-Fi on mega bus not me but one of my good friends she went to the Royal Military College of Canada where they wear their uniforms and there are often tourists visiting the campus apparently it was completely normal to be waylaid by tourists looking to have their photos taken with students in uniform at all they had to say when they walked in late was tourists in the professor's would let it slide she always wondered how many family photo she was actually in over her time spent there we had an exam in my class and the teacher got a message from a student saying that he was going to be late because his car had a flat tire the student was known to party the teacher didn't think it could be true so as a joke the teacher asked him to bring the tie back he brought the flat tire back in the middle of the exam needless to say the professor didn't expect that that student had been partying drives to school takes off tire punctures it and Bob's your auntie Mary don't even need to puncture it just deflated a bunch and then after the exam just filled it back up me my bus hit a bird of the whole windshield was cracked we had to wait for another bus to pick us up story time I was the only high schooler on her school bus one winter the other detail importance to this story is that we had the eldest model bus that wasn't in the best mechanical shape it had one of those mechanically operated doors it would shoot out a plume of black smoke every time it started and just look much less fancy than all the other buses the school had anyway one winter it was so cold that the diesel engine stopped working the bus driver said the cold made the diesel in the fuel line's gel up I have no idea if that's accurate but either way the bus wouldn't start fortunately we were only five miles from the school and all the kids had been picked up already so they just radioed another newer bus to loop back around and pick us up the bus driver had radioed the elementary school but completely forgot to let the high school know so I show up to class and the teacher asks why I was late I said the cold calls the fuel lines to gel up in the school bus repeating exactly what the bus driver told us but I was the only high schooler on that bus so no other students were there to back up my story but the teacher didn't believe me and instead of just calling the main office to verify my story she mocked me in front of the whole class saying it's not possible for fuel to freeze in the cold and everyone in the class agrees with her saying that I was a bad liar and loft at how done my story was mad diesel is basically in oil and will turn to wax in cold enough conditions you can buy anti waxing additives but in really cold places you need a wraparound electric heater for your fuel filter I'm guessing your teacher wasn't a chemistry teacher or from Alaska not a teacher but a friend said his house blew away apparently tornado may have been my house and took about a week off from school to help clean up my house not a teacher but I was training a new hire at a job and the guy came in 45 minutes late stating he got halfway to work and realized he didn't have shoes on it was winter and like 15 F degrees outside I did that in high school once mom got so mad at me this was me as a student my parents thought I get President's Day Off so they didn't wake me up just out of curiosity how old were you at the time this was seventh grade so thirteen flock of wild turkeys in the road not always school but this happened more than once in my life for those of you who have never found yourselves in this situation there is no way out of it wild turkeys will move when they damn well decide to do so and only then never been in the situation but I've met some wild turkeys they truly don't care interesting the only time I drink wild turkey is when I truly don't care either literally today child missed my first hour class notes said car accident on the way to school and would be coming late kid comes for second hour has pictures on his phone of the rollover accident WTF kid go home rest take care of yourself edit I have another one although this one happened to a classmate when we were in college training to be teachers she missed her really important class came for just the last 10 minutes or so because her neighbor knocked on her door while in active labor asking for help a little while before she was supposed to leave for class classmate walked back to neighbor's house with preggo neighbor and delivered her baby in the living room while on the phone to 911 paramedics came and mom and baby were fine but classmate needed to go home and shower / change first because she was covered in blood not school related but my mom was in an accident where her car rolled and got totaled on the way to work she said the trooper who gave her a lift had never in their life had someone asked to be brought to work after a car accident and my mom took a selfie with the trooper she worked her whole shift her only complaint was her coffee spilled when the car flipped no injuries at all I had a teacher who showed up about halfway through the class apparently her car had slid intense snowstorm the night before and she had walked the last mile or so that's dedication to students on the topic of dedication to students my networking instructor once trips on a wire bounced their head off the floor concussion then finished the lesson was gone for about a week or two three or six classes then came back because she was worried we were gonna fall behind with a substitute teacher not teacher but pupil I was in a car crash on my way to school about five cars involved because some jerk decided to overtake us since we slowed down coming to a turn so a trip to the hospital to get checked and then school three hours late I had small cuts all over my face from glass flying everywhere and had a really sore shoulder but my teachers wouldn't believe me until police showed up because they forgot to get a statement from me apparently some of the other involved people died AMD the jerk got eight years in prison thanks for watching subscribe for three videos a day [Music]

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Published: Mon Mar 09 2020