Excuses

Just when I thought I'd heard it all, today I received two new excuses for missing homework assignments.

"You're not going to believe this, but my dog ate my homework. And while I was waiting for it to pass through, he got hit by a car."

I then felt compelled to tell my students that if their dogs were to ever eat their homework, I wouldn't accept it after its been pooped out anyway. Next period, the stakes were raised.

"I couldn't finish my homework because I was at the hospital all night -- my sister turned inside out."

I promised to excuse the work provided ey brought in a photo of eir sister having turned inside out.