Do you ever have a thing you have to go to, and you need a good excuse to get out of it?

I'm in that boat and I'm looking for some good ones...

So I'm asking you, my clever and inventive message board friends, to help me out.

These are some I got from the net, but I'm not sure how useful they are...

1. Today I took two ex-lax in addition to my prozac...
2. I'm stuck in the blood pressure machine down at Food Giant
3. The voices told me to clean all the guns today
4. I'd love to go but the man on TV told me to stay tuned.
and...my favourite...
5. I'd love to but I'm building a pig from a kit :arnold:

OK now I need some really good ones!!!

OK, no one is helping me. Maybe I need to be more specific.

Our work Christmas party is tomorrow night. I don't wanna go. I see enough of those people for eight hours a day, every day!!!

So, I need a good reason not to go. Ideas????

I am having a bad hair night....
I am feeling a bit trigger happy....
I am highly contagious....
I have a case of the hicups.....hicup
and......

I have to chat :rolleyes:

My give a darn is busted?

I kind of like this one, Chiky.....

"I'm stuck in the blood pressure machine down at Food Giant"

or, how about one that I have used a few times..........

"my cousin is in from Mississippi and I promised him I would take him to see Aunt Lizzie".

Just change the place and the person to suit your needs. :rolleyes:

Of course, Donna had some good ones, too. Good luck.

Well, my pastor was preaching on the parable of the wedding party last night. He said it is an insult to the one doing the inviting to not go when invited (even with valid reasons) and that the more important the person asking the more insulting to them. However, he is also the one who didn't want to stay very long at a wedding reception outside the church either. Maybe he thinks showing up is enough, staying isn't neccessary. :rollinglaughing:

One I liked was one Phoebe on Friends used years ago. "I wish I could, but I don't want to." :babyha:

Don't you hate that though? It is nice to be invited, but sometimes there are valid reasons to not go to things and people should not be offended if you have reasons to not go or don't want to. :)

How about, I am one run in short of going postal and I don't want to risk it? ;)

I think JCB's is about the most accurate at the moment, lol...

How about

I've got a date with Matthew McConaughey (or David James Elliot, etc.) and I don't want to hurt him by breaking the date....

I'm probably gonna be sick that day....

I'm afraid to drive in the snow.....

I offered to work some overtime.....

How about,

I've got laundry to do? Darn, sorry I can't make it! Laundry cannot wait!!! :angry:

I have other pressing ingagements that wont wait. Family, Christmas, and That sort of stuff.

Thanks everyone for your help.

I ended up going, and as with most things, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be :rolleyes:

Sorry I couldn't come up with anything. I have such a hard time saying no, myself. I'm glad that it wasn't bad for you. I dreaded going to a cookie exchange at church last night too....... and it was actually fun. I don't know why I expect the worst sometimes. :(

The wierdest part was when our local wicca lady who happened to sit across the table from me, started to discuss dragon goddesses and spirit guides with the girl next to her who was a sitting duck. I turned to my Christian friend beside me and just said, "I can't believe she's talking about that here".

Ew... that is weird. She sounds scary.