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Excuse
A lame reason for getting out of something. For example, "I didn't have anything to eat for breakfast so I ate my essay". Or "excuse" in the word "excuse me". For example, "excuse me for sneezing on your dress."
Excuse me, but that was a lame excuse.
by Autumn Applegate February 18, 2021
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Where have you been, Lani?
// Here's the thing. Eric has TWO eyes. We did cataract surgery for his left eye in August, and his right eye this month.
// And after you (or your spouse) goes through surgery, you must return in a week (and then a month) to make sure the lens is still in place, etc, etc. So that's been my last two weekends -- and I have yet to work up the energy to do anything of the writing nature after work.
// I know, I know. These excuses are thin like your mother's breakfast porridge. But the good news is Eric's all out of eyes now. And you can stop looking at mine.
// This school year has been pretty good so far. My students are within the range of normality that I can handle. Although, there's G who requires much encouragement and attention.
// Apparently, during her earlier years her mother took the blame for her grandmother's crimes and ended up in jail for a couple of years.
// My friend said she hears of these things in Thailand all the time. Crazy, right? Like the mom who pretended to be driving so her son wouldn't get charged with drunk driving.
// My stepdad told me that I was a terrible liar, so that pretty much kept me from being that kind of kid. But now that I think about it, I wonder why that didn't make me want to be better? Perhaps I gave up too easily.
// In this cute TED talk called, "Can you really tell if a kid is lying?" Kang Lee discusses how lying is actually a developmental marker in children.
// Naturally though, we don't want our little ones growing up into this NYT's piece "How I Became a Pathological Liar".
// When we were in Chiang Mai for Eric's "poke a needle in my eye" event, we caught up with an old work colleague over Mexican. (Yum!) And as we were going through the "where's so-and-so now" roll call, we landed on Joe, who, it turns out was recently arrested for indecent exposure back in England. I wonder what was his excuse?
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