The point of this post is to make a long excuse of why I didn’t
do something and then I get caught. I am not one to make a lot of excuses like “My
dog ate my homework” “I had a late night at work”. I normally get done what’s
needed to be done because not only do my grades suffer for my laziness but I do
to because it is not acceptable with my mother. So here is my scenario. I walk
into class Monday morning and the teacher assigns a new project that is due
that following Friday. Just like every kid does, I procrastinate and wait till Wednesday
to even think about starting on the big project. I decide what I want to do and get most
everything planned out. I wait to tell my mom that I need to go to Wal-Mart to
pick up some stuff, until it’s too late to be out on a school night. I think
well I’ll get it tomorrow. Then Thursday roles around and we end up going out
to eat and hanging out with some family and again I don’t make it to Wal-Mart. It’s
Thursday night and its 11 o’clock and I don’t have anything done. So I begin to
devise the ULTIMATE EXCUSE to tell my teacher about how I had such a God awful
weak and there were family problems and I never made it Wal-Mart, my mom hasn’t
even went to buy groceries yet. I wouldn’t be completely lying because we didn’t
have time to go to Wal-Mart and my mom really hadn’t been grocery shopping yet,
that is why we went out to eat. Friday morning comes and I go to my teacher and
tell her the whole thing and I ask for an extension on my assignment. She looks
at me and I know I have been caught. She tells me I saw you at the restaurant
last night and it was only 5:00, you still had time to make a quick trip to
Wal-Mart. I instantly start thinking up more ideas because not only will I be
in big trouble for not doing the assignment but I am also going to get into
trouble for lying. Maybe one more excuse will do the trick. I then start to
make myself tear up and tell her, “I am sorry I just didn’t want to tell you
the truth. I did procrastinate but then my mom told me we didn’t have enough
money that I would have to come up with something else. I was really
embarrassed because I would be the only kid to not have the right material. Yesterday
we went out to eat because our grandparents took us because we haven’t been
able to afford groceries. If I could just have this extension, my mom gets paid
today and I can get everything done this weekend.” The teacher takes my excuse
because my mom really did get paid today and we hadn’t had a lot of money but
we had enough for a poster board.
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