if youre wondering how someone ended up in class not realizing theyre covered in blood this is whats called shock, dude just described holding someones head in their body before paramedics arrived he 100% was still in shock. it can last much longer than the adrenaline high, days even.
I had the precise same thought. Who could experience something so horrific ad _not_ experience shock and trauma? The poor guy was, no doubt, operating on autopilot after the paramedics arrived and took over -- "Okay, I'm done here. Time to get to class" -- and just... kept going. I hope to goodness her got some good counseling after the nightmare he experienced. Golly, I'd have nightmares about it for the rest of my life!
TW: gruesome a paramedic friend once shared a story about someone who had a car accident on his way to work, thinking he only had a nosebleed, he gets to work and his coworkers stare at him and call the ambulance turns out his whole face was covered in blood because he had a huge hole straight into his nasal cavity (I saw a photo and can't really describe it properly)
As someone who has had shock, (Not very long, broke my arm, it lasted an hour, i was about 8) it is quite scary how numbing it is, i was in no pain for at least 10-15 minutes
I had a dog that did actually eat paper. My homework was eaten more than once. 'My dog ate my homework.' Got me sent to the office... several times. They refused to call my mother for confirmation. It all sucked.
I always went with my cat peed on my homework and the first time I brought it in in a gallon Ziploc, so it was still legible, but nobody had to touch the grossness. I was believed more often than it was true that year generally speaking, I was dealing with some messed up stuff at home, and my real reasons for not doing whatever the assignment was were valid and supported by parents, but wouldn’t have been believed by staff. I think I actually only genuinely skived off once. However, I did use a more believable excuse because it was true not infrequently, but wasn’t always the reason the thing wasn’t done.
Oh man I have the most ironic story ever. In college I had to get a train every day to get there. The trains in my area suck and always break down or run late or *insert issue here*. Eventually I got called to a meeting with the head of my course, to discuss my "future on the course due to my constant lateness". Guess what happened on my way in to the meeting.... You guessed it. I hate trains. Edited to add: I plead my case, they let me stay, I finished college and went on to university where I also graduated. Happy ending ✨
I mean… if you’re late that often, you need to leave earlier, even if it means being early most days (I’m sure the transit is better where I live, but I’d rather be an hour early than fifteen minutes late). And if it was that common a problem you wouldn’t have been worth singling out from the class. Your story mostly says you don’t take responsibility for your actions. It becomes a lot less ironic when you think about it that way.
@@faiora it wasn't possible to leave any earlier for me. I already left an hour and a half early, and the bus to the train station only started at a certain time in the morning. I had no choice but to get the same train every day, I literally physically had NO other way of getting to the train station.
A girl in my German class was late once because she found a dead body. She was riding her bike to school when she saw a homeless man sleep in a bench. At first, she just kept going, but she felt like she had to stop. So she did, and he was dead. So she had to call emergency services and wait for help to arrive. She basically just went to school, told the teacher (and those of us who were in class) what happened, and then she ran out puking before she got taken to the councillor.
When I was in high school, I had an alarm clock with control buttons on the top. Because it was plugged in, it was a little warm, so my cat liked to sit on it. My teachers never believed me when I told them I was late because my cat turned my alarm off.
I went to lunch one day and had to call my boss to tell him I would be late and wasn't sure how long I would be. He asked why and I told him that elephants were in my way. Now my office is in an industrial area right across the river from downtown in Portland Oregon. He very sarcastically said "right". I said 'no, really'. He disgustedly said 'fine, just hurry up'. Right then the elephants next to me trumpeted and I held the phone out the window. When I put the phone back to my ear, there was a very long silence before he just hung up. Lol.. the circus had come to town and police had the street blocked off so they could line up and head out.
one of the few comments i actually like (like press the like button. also did i just say like 4 times in one sentence and it makes sense? a bit of sense at least)
Funniest I've had was a student (16 years old) who called in and said she would be late because she had to help deliver a lamb. No-one questioned it since we all knew her family did indeed run a sheep farm, and, heck, it's not like you can argue that that's an invalid excuse. This was a school with a farming profile where many of the students were children of farmers and some of the things they studies included tractor driving, animal care, and crop sowing, so technically it wasn't even a weird reason for a student to be late.
I don't know what year it was (my school is over 50 years old and the teacher who told this story has been there, for a while, I believe he turned 70 this year so he could have been here for almost the schools entire existence, we make jokes that he is really the one in charge, not the principles) and since he ran an ag class, and most of his students came from parents who had farms, he had them one day drive their tractors to school (I learned how to drive a tractor in this class, welding and mechanics, if it wasn't covid time I would have learned how to use a chainsaw), tractors are very slow, so they ended up causing a traffic jam, as a good 50+ tractors arrived at school. The principle at that time was apparently pissed, and banned the teacher from letting students bring their tractors to school ever again. Though a different principle did let students bring in their horses in (when most of the school property was still just fields, there are 3,000+ people in this school now, and they plan on expanding it further in the coming years to fit more).
Student: "My school bus driver drove us through a field, because the road was blocked by a snow drift, and the plow was stuck in it." School Official (showing great skepticism): "If that's true, why are you late?" Student: "The field wasn't plowed at all." School Official (seeing there were quite a few students, needing attention) Wait there; I'll deal with you later. (Summoning the next student) Are you late? Why? Student 2: "I was on the same bus. The driver really drove our bus through a field." School Official: (showing exasperation and maybe a bit defeat): "How many of you in line were on this bus?" (Large number of hands raised. I think I heard someone in the office laugh.)
@@rosydevils3390 We couldn't believe the driver did it. There was snow in the field,too; It just wasn't deep, because that's where the snow had come from when it drifted the road shut. Beneath it, the rutted ground was frozen solid. We were bouncing around like marbles being shaken in a can.
In high school another student would often be tardy or absent and always had something of an excuse but ur professor strictly told him that he’d be suspended if he was late again without a proper parent note excuse.. next time when he came in late he handed the teacher a note from his mother that stated, “ please excuse my son for being late, our pet orangutan died this morning and he had to bury it”. No he did not have an orangutan but I have never forgotten how hilarious that moment was. Mr.A simply looked at him, snickered, read the note aloud to us, then sat down and laughed so hard he had tears coming from his eyes and told him he was excused from being tardy.
When I was in eighth grade, my science teacher loved teasing students in front of the class when they showed up late or missed a class. I had missed class one day because I was at a funeral and went up to him to ask what I had missed since there was no Canvas module for that day. He did his usual “oh were you just sick of school?” Keep in mind, I’m a pretty good student and hardly ever miss class. I simply replied “no” and asked him again if there was anything I missed. He decided to take it a little further and jokingly asked “oh, then, did someone die?” I said, “yes, actually” and pulled out the obituary. Dude went white, apologized profusely and told me it was very unprofessional of him to ask and never teased a student about being late or not showing up after that.
My dad had a similar incident in middle school. He and his brothers missed school because of their Dad’s funeral. He gets to school the next day and the music teacher (I’m a music teacher, so this really p**ses me off) snidely asks, “where were you yesterday?” Like, you couldn’t read the attendance report yesterday, seriously? My dad’s response: “I was at *my father’s FUNERAL.*” That shut the jerk up right away. My dad hated him so much, that when my brother was a kid, the same teacher was still there, but teaching the gifted and talented program, and my parents wouldn’t let him do it because of THAT teacher (and some other stuff, but mostly him).
I was late once and teacher asked me why. I answered "Honestly - I don't know. I woke up as usual, left my home as usual and was walking with the same speed I always do." I'm pretty sure we laughed about it. Still don't know, why have I never heard this answer from anyone else. When people are late for a minute or 2, they are usually just staying there akwardly and say nothing. But come on, is there actually your fault, if your your everyday time management, that always worked before, just didn't work out one day?
I remember my personal best "I was Late" story. My bus route took us across a double set of railroad tracks, so train delays were relatively common. Usually, it was only a few minutes. This day? We were stopped by a reasonably long train. After the end passed, we saw a second train on the second set of tracks. We wait for this one to also pass... only for it to stop. With the end in sight. Then it started backing up. I don't remember exactly how late we were, but with an entire bus late (it was a small school), it was pretty obvious it was none of our fault for missing a chunk of the morning.
I ended up being late going home from school. A kid threw a water bottle out of the bus window and hit someone's car while we were all moving in traffic. Police were called, and everyone got held up. Our parents had to call the school to learn none of us were lying. The kids who threw the bottle got in so much trouble. It was a wild ride.
My personal best "I was late" story would be that time I arrived 45 minutes late. It was a public transport strike day (this is how i tell you i'm French without telling you i'm French), so there was less than half as much buses as usual. It was also super rainy so I preferred going by bus than by foot if possible. The bus I ended up taking was packed af and we had to spend a lot of time at each stop, so i ended up 45 minutes late. I would probably have went faster by foot but urgh, one hour of walking under that rain isn't pleasant. So when i arrive i expect to have a lot to catch up. However, it turned out the teacher had come only 5 minutes before me, also struggling with the strike.
Not a teacher, i was the student. Teachers never believed me. I get motion sick easily so i couldn't ride the bus, so my mom had to drive me to school. I was always 1-6 minutes late because I'm the youngest of 3, the least favorite child, and my mom generally has no concept of time. My teachers eventually got so fed up with me being late that they put in my permanent record that i had after school detention and Saturday detention for basically the rest of my life, longer than I'd ever be in school for, as though it were somehow my fault. Tf am i supposed to do, drive myself to school every day at 8 years old? Ride the school bus and vomit everywhere every day, embarrassing myself in front of all my classmates, because of severe motion sickness, and be too nauseous to focus for most of the day? *Walk several miles because i live at the edge of the school district?* Nah. Not my fault, so i stopped going to detention, and the teachers decided to give me *even more* detention that I'd just not go to. I once was threatened with suspension and just said "So you're going to punish me for missing school by making me miss more school?" Took them a second before they realized their mistake and just gave up. I switched schools a couple years later and got called into the principal's office on day one, he looked through my file and said "It says here you have detention for the next 500 years. That can't be right." And just took that page out of my file and shredded it. I didn't say a word. Think about it for a second. I had detention every school day and every Saturday for the rest of my life at least 5 times over, all for something i had no control over. Fuck schools in america, man, useless prisons for children meant to do jack shit except keep them out of their parents' hair. I had excellent grades and still didn't learn anything about how to survive in the real world, almost nothing i learned in school has stuck with me, and what little did was either incredibly basic or completely useless for real life. I learned more from watching flash animations (tim and moby) and the science channel than i ever learned in a classroom. Hell, when i got my GED the test only covered things i learned in like 4th grade and bits and pieces of things learned later. None of it was practical for the real world. Sorry, rant over.
should of gave them middle ------ after 1 week of that...however how were you fine with car driving but not bus driving ? its not rly any different..thats the part that dont make sense...as in regard to schools not all of them are as bad as that...governement stuff should been taught to you by parents not school(a good chunk of parents dont care to bother unfortunetly)...advanced maths are good for more complex jobs(like working at NASA for say)...classes i'd call useless are own language class, history class(useless except for those interest in being archeologists), biology class(if you dont aspired to work in that kin of stuff)..these classes are a huge waste of time if you got no interest in it....Biology,History, Science class should be optionnal classes(as in pick 1 out of the 3)....not all 3.... own language class should stop after 3-4 years of it..not drag for 10 years of classes..if you haven't learn to write after 3-4 years you will never improve further anyway
@@bllllood Your idea of useless and my idea of useless are apparently exact opposites. Edit: As for car VS school bus, they're very different. School busses have assigned seats, and my seat was near the back. I get car sick because of not being able to see the motion that I feel. When there's a dozen other seats in front of me and I can't see the road moving, that makes me sick. Plus, the busses smell horrible, from the amount of gross children packed in like sardines. Plus some other kids get carsick and then there's a vomit smell mixed in, which makes it even worse. The car however is different, because I can ride in the front passenger seat and look straight ahead and see everything moving around me. And there's nobody there but my mom, and the only smell in there is the air freshener, if there is one. By your way of speaking I assume you're not American, so in case you didn't know, those yellow school busses you sometimes see in movies that only have schoolkids on them? They're real.
@@StormTheSquid Just wondering, but why did yours have assigned seating? The one I took never had assigned seating to my knowledge and we sat where we felt was best for us at the time. I remember taking it in high school quite a bit & where it dropped us off at, my "area" was always the last stop. I prob. occasionally took it in middle school. And I remember my bus being mixed age groups and I don't remember what this little girl was going on about, but she had some sass in her that day & even the bus driver noticed that b/c she's usually not sassy, but everyone else on the bus got a kick out of her sass. Given, she could have been short for her age b/c she did look like she was in elementary school, but she easily could have been in middle school. Then again, I was always 1 of the taller kids too though. Basically, that little girl was little in a good way, but the sass she had that day was so funny.
I missed class one day to watch an inauguration happen. My professor told me if I got a note from the governor it would be excused. He got a selfie with the governor instead. He thought I was joking until that point. It was an excused absence
you forgot the part where your parents are party officials and donors so you had to be there for it if you’re going to steal a story, at least use the whole story
It’s my senior year of high school, and I’m just driving like I always do, taking my normal route. I lived in a very isolated area and most of the neighbors were elderly, so the streets were pretty to much always empty. I had two free periods every Tuesday morning that year, so I didn’t leave for school until around 9:45. Maybe a few miles into the drive, I slam on the brakes. There’s a little girl, probably around 12, sprawled out in the crosswalk. Not even bothering to pull over, I shove the door open and hop out of the car. I run over and kneel beside the girl. She’s barely conscious and is coughing up blood. I call the paramedics, and they’re there within minutes. At that point I was in really deep shock, so most of what happened after that is blurry. I do remember, however, walking into school an hour late with blood coating my hands. To put it simply, I had a rather interesting conversation with the dean that day. I got a call from the girl’s single dad a few days later, thanking me for saving his angel’s life. I’m still in touch with him - we’ve actually come to be quite close companions - but the incident was never mentioned again. She’s alive and well and doesn’t walk to and from school on her own anymore, but that’s the extent of my knowledge. Back to the school part, though. The rest of my day was pretty average, save for my AP Euro teacher making me stay an hour after school to take a test I missed that morning. And I got an A!
I use to come in after school started I did not have a first period. This was all above bored and approved. Came in late once by 15 minutes and teacher gives me grief saying I should not be late since I didn’t have to rush in and if i plan accordingly I should always be on time. I said “sorry the resource officer and town police had the lot blocked for the K9 walking the lot doing drug searches” as they did occasionally while we were in class. He snarky said I always park in the back lot normally where teachers park so he did not believe me. I said yes that’s the one they are searching I parked out front. He turned pale. Apparently he was put on leave the dog hit on his vehicle. He tried appealing saying they had no right to search his vehicle but he didn’t win.
My sister once had to deal with a student taking over 15 minutes for a pee break (toilets are a few meters away, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes), during class. She walked in, inmediately walked up to my sister and said: "sorry I took so long, someone was passed out in the toilets so I got someone to get help whilst I stayed with the student. It took a while to get the help." My sister knew that this student was not likely to lie, but didn't really believe it. She still let the student go without consequenses. Later on during that day, my sister spoke to administration, turned out the student had spoken the truth. The sick student had a chronic disease which caused that student to feel unwell, go to the toilet and pass out. My sisters student handled it like an adult, even tho both students were 15 years old at the time. That student also got a lot of praise, as most teachers learned what had happened before the day was over.
No one ever found me, but yeah, I missed a lot of class passend Out in the bathroom . . . When I came in late because of that Inwas let Go No questions asked since apparently I looked Like an extra from the Walking dead and since I Had a really high working Moral, I was well liked by Most of my teachers. The only one WHO never believed me was the PM teacher . . .IT lead to a Lot of disrupted classes cause I fainted or broke down crying or throwing Up from pain . . .she never learned from it
Not sure if this fits here but one time in high school I showed up for gym class late due to stomach pains. The teacher for that class didn't believe me and made me participate in the lesson, which was an excruciating hour-long ordeal of various stretches and exercises that were already difficult for me due to lung-related issues. As it turned out, I had food poisoning from a burger I'd eaten the night before and, as the lesson progressed, I got more and more sick. You can imagine the look on the teacher's face when he was forced to call the school nurse to check me out, then send me home because I was clearly too sick to even be in school, let alone doing physical activities. I was delirious, sweating profusely, and a variety of other nasty side effects I won't name here. That was also the incident that put said teacher on blast, because he'd been pushing me well past my limit all year and I was too tired to do my work properly in following classes, which meant half my grades were suffering. Funnily enough, we didn't see him the next year. Rumor had it that he'd been doing the same thing to other students with disabilities and medical issues, but that was the first time he'd gotten caught so publicly, so it was probably for the best. He was a bully and I don't regret following orders, so there's some malicious compliance there too. TLDR: bully teacher gets caught assuming a student is lying about being in pain when said student starts making a mess of the basketball field mid-lesson and has to send me home. Fun bonus: he assumed I was using 'girl issues' to make excuses for myself.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 First of all, I'm not religious. Second of all, repent for what? Being bullied by a man twice my age in front of a group of other students? Getting yelled at for the fact that I have asthma and I'm 'not trying hard enough'? No, I don't think I will.
Had a similar situation once, though not due to me being late for anything, I was never late for any classes (I either showed up for class or I was absent due to not being at school at all due to either illness or injury), and since the teachers often gave about 5 minutes before actually starting the class, there were never any major issues even for students who were late. Then one day during gym class I'm bending over to pick up a basketball and I happen to lose my balance and fall, and as I'm falling my right sneaker does it's job *_too_* well and keeps my foot firmly planted and un-moving while the rest of my body spins 180 degrees. I am very clearly injured as a result due to the fact that I had to use the bleachers to pick myself back up and I could hardly put any weight whatsoever on my right foot. The gym teacher thought I was faking until I outright *TOLD* him that I was hurt and that I couldn't put any weight on my leg (which should have been obvious, and it _was_ obvious to the other students in class who could clearly tell that I was genuinely hurt, as I can remember the looks of concern on their faces quite clearly, even all these years later). I then had to drag myself to the nurse's office while leaning on the wall for support, after which the nurse called my dad to come pick me up so that he could take me to a doctor. Turns out I'd sprained my ankle pretty badly and I wound up on crutches for over a week as a result. Naturally, this also exempted me from gym class until my ankle had fully recovered as well. What annoys me the most about that situation though is that my gym teacher thought I was faking an injury when I had *_NEVER_* done such a thing before, as I actually enjoyed Gym class. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to suspect a student who has never once faked an injury over the course of several *_years_* at that school, when said student is visibly and very badly limping and unable to put any weight on their leg? And I made it pretty clear that I was not happy with the gym teacher when I next showed up to gym class on *_CRUTCHES_* by giving him a visibly irritated look.
Once I called into work saying I couldn't make it. I'd spent the night with my mother in the emergency room because she was bleeding out. Next day I was told how me not coming into work showed I wasn't committed enough to my job.
When I was in 5th grade my teacher loudly asked why I was late to class and didn’t have my backpack. I loudly told her back “BECAUSE I WAS IN COURT” she didn’t believe me. This then turned into a class discussion of how lying was unacceptable. Eventually I got fed up with her and begged her to call the office or better yet, my mom. She eventually did call the office and when they told her I actually was in court she shut up real quick. And that was the day every kid in my class found out my parents were fighting for custody of me and my brother. Side note the court said “it would be better to have blah blah blah blah blah amount of time with [our bio dad]” Despite them reading our hand written notes about how much he and our stepmom was abusing us in almost every way possible. I was way worse than my brother. As well as how they literally tried to poison me and how I got punished for throwing up. My brother is now 21(?) 22(?) and I’m 17. Still forced to go. I’ll be 18 in March and I actually cannot wait to never see them again. They still abuse me. Such as withholding food. I know every person I tell will side with my bio dad because he’s a cop. Blue code of silence stuff iykyk. I’m ashamed to say I’m related to that pos
@@Jpengma I think they are trying to get out of seeing me the next 2 months ( I turn 18 in March) so there’s a plus. But as well cos doesn’t do crap. And they’d probably also side with him being a cop.
As a kid, I have one of these. My mother’s car got stolen in the middle of the night, so when I went to go to school for the day, we had an awfully hard time finding the car. Ended up being an hour late after a family friend was able to finally get me to school/get my mom to the rental store. Ended up giving the school the police report to get the tardy excused, wild times.
In all fairness, the guy had just seen a horrible accident, held a man’s scalp onto its proper place, while the poor person was screaming…I don’t think it ever entered his mind to check out his appearance…he was in SHOCK.
In highschool i was already running late, because i went to a shop to get some snacks in between classes, and slipped when running down the stairs. Because i had a bag in my hands, i did not break the fall and went head first into gravel path. Because of shock, i just went straight to class with "sorry im late", and seeing the teachers face pale in seconds with a horrible look was pretty funny. I must have looked like from a horror film, with my whole face bloody, and missing a few square inches of skin from my forehead and dripping blood from my nose and face. There was screaming from the students, but i got quickly rushed to nurses office and ambulance got called. In the end it was nothing much, mild concussion some missing skin and a bunch more scraped as hell, but it healed pretty fine, just had to wear a huge patch over the forehead and nose for a couple of weeks, only got two days off school. Shame that no one took a picture, cuz the picture after cleanup was not that interesting to see.
My English teacher my senior year of high school told us a story of one senior who was 45 minutes late, came into his class without a tardy slip. Teacher goes, “dude, you’re late!” And the student without missing a beat goes, “Yes, but I brought breakfast” and holds up a Whataburger bag and sure enough bought breakfast for the whole class. We asked him if the student was late that day and he said, “not that day he wasn’t” 😂😂😂
I was late because I had my brother drive me to work once and his tire exploded on the highway for dry rot. One of the other tires were also about to give soon too. I still have pictures of the aftermath. Tire was COMPLETELY shredded.
I have a pretty good one but it will take a bit. I was working in a four-star resort as a chef on top of a hill but this was my first job since graduating high school and I didn't have a car and barely enough to buy a beaten, old, bicycle which I used to bike to work everyday. However, due to the tread of the back tire being so worn out the the inner tube was exposed and caused the inner tube to pop around three to four times a week usually on the way to work since the resort was on top of a large set of hills for the view. Needless to say, I was late frequently for around a month until I could get new treads that properly protected the inner tubes. But it doesn't end there, by the time I had the bicycle fixed I was made fun of for being late so, knowing that my bike was no longer a problem, I promised that tomorrow I would do everything in my power to be on time. That night I set two alarms and double checked my bike for problems and went to bed. I woke up, got dressed and rode my bike to work with no issues. So I check in and strode confidently into the kitchen and look at everyone and announce my timeliness. Then one of the cook walks up to me, puts his hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eye and says, "Buddy, it's day lights savings, you're one hour late." Of which my response was, and I quote, "That's not fair."
Our class clown, who could deliver *anything* with a straight face, always told our teachers he crapped himself and had to go home to change pants. He knew there would be no follow up questions or punishments. Our teachers mustve thought he had some serious intestinal issues, because this happened so often. I was a smoker and creative little bugger, often late to class and didnt really care about punishments or being told off, so I told I had been in Wonderland with Alice and all the clocks were wrong, couldnt help it. I remember only one teacher, her sense of humor surgically removed, chewing me out. Her attempts to establish dominance or authority in odd ways backfired tho, she became hated by pretty much our whole class.
I have a couple of those: - A group of kids arrived quite late once, when they finally showed up they claimed the school bus had a minor crash with a public bus and emergency services took a lot to show up (latam stuff) so they had to push the bus out of the highway and then had to wait for the school to send a teacher (because no bus driver was available) to pick them up in another bus. They then procceeded to show me pictures of the whole ordeal, including the older students pushing the bus and the teacher-driver looking frustrated af. - I had two eleventh grade kids that were from a very, VERY wealthy family and we suspect they were actually involved with a drug cartel (the family, not the kids). They stopped showing up for a couple of days and finally they sent a video to their homeroom teacher where a relatively popular national singer said something like "Hey teacher, I'm sorry so and so didn't show up, they were celebrating their birthday and they are still partying with me" and then sang a small piece of one of his songs for the teacher.
My own excuse was that while I was waiting outside next to the car for my mom to come out and drive me, I heard a crash and I scream at the end of our driveway. We lived in front of a busy road, and it turns out that a truck hit a man on a motorcycle and broke his back. My mom immediately rushed off to help while I just watched in shock, the entire driveway ended up being blocked by the crash and piled up cars. It was probably around 30 minutes to an hour till things cleared up enough to go to school-
Not the wildest story here but, hopefully mildly interesting... My second year of college, I was roommates with my toxic best friend and 2 young boys were living with us at the time and we were responsible for taking care of them. Basically their unofficial guardians. My boss wanted me to work morning shifts at the convenient store. I had an 9:30 AM class (I think) so I had to leave work around 9 AM hopefully, but I usually didn't get to leave until about 9:15. I lived across the street. So I would race home, my best friend, had 99% of the time, drove my car to work so she wasn't late. Her work was about 1/3 of a mile away. So I would race to her work. Race into her store (where she worked) have to track her down for my keys, and try to get to class. While sometimes also dealing with something with the boys, if they were home from school, or were calling, or someone was calling about them, etc. I was only allowed 2 absences that whole semester. I failed.
@@voidtectonic unfortunately that was only a small fraction of the things she messed up. Although I have to take some accountability because I should've known better after I let things happen time and time again. But thank you I appreciate your kindness. I want to eventually talk about my experiences on TH-cam and online. I've made some shorts but they're not really about my personal life. I'm nervous to talk about personal stuff like that. I'm doing okay now, living on my own, kind of, got a whole new set of goals. Hope you're doing well too!
Not a teacher, but for final exams, you’re not allowed to enter the room once the test begun, unless you have a really good reason. This one guy came in and gave a proctor a good excuse. He just handed over his speeding ticket.
When I was in college, I was usually one of those people who was always on time for classes. Only ever turned up late one time, and that was because of unusual circumstances. Midway through the journey, I happened to realise that I left my wheelchair behind in the parking lot, so I had to tell my driver to turn back and get it. Fortunately, the faculty were very understanding
I got hit by a car once when cycling to school. My friends didn't believe me, since I often made up silly stories for them, and I wasn't badly hurt, just maybe a bit bruised and shaken up during the morning. The man who hit me was very apologetic and offered me a ride to school (he had small children in the back). I probably could have accepted, but I turned it down because stranger danger. When I was in first period, one of the pastoral staff asked to see me and she said she had a phone call from the man's wife concerned about me. I wasn't considerably late, but I wasn't bothered about getting to school on time as I knew that would be a valid excuse.
Not a teacher, but when I was about 10 or 11 I had a substitute bus driver for 6 months, and she was mean, you couldn't talk during the bus ride, you couldn't get off the bus at the school until she was done going inside to use the bathroom and eat her breakfast at each school she stopped at, when she first started though, she would pick up a set of kids at a singular bus stop, drive to the appropriate school for them and drop them off, qnd go get the next set of kids, I and several others missed over half the school day several times and i had to tell the office multiple times about it and they told me to deal with it at first until i told my mom and called my dad while he was at work (my parents weren't together, they still aren't but co parent very well) and they called the school and said to fix it or they would be calling the higher ups about it. Needless to say the issue was fixed, and i got a new bus driver a week later. But the teachers refused to believe those of us who had to deal with it for 6 months because "kids lie" so i had lunch detentions left and right for 6 frickin months. But i eventually moved schools and didn't have to ride a bus anymore.
+deathshadow1115 Apart from yourself, did other kids your age speak up about it too? I've learned that kids actually tell the truth the majority of the time and if/when they do lie, it's usually a little white lie to prevent hurting someone else's feelings. But the fact that it was something big like this esp. abt. a bus driver that's *supposed* to get kids to/from school On Time, the adults should have had a clue there. The adults seem to always say to kids: "see something, say something," and the minute kids choose to speak up about something, these same adults don't believe them-is there a reason behind that? Ex and given, I understand not believing 1 child. But if say there's *multiple* kids telling the same things abt. the same person multiple times a day should = a little click in the teacher's mind like, "hey something needs to be done about this when I have about 10-20 students telling me the same things abt. the same person." I understand u were only 10 at the time, but only if u had thought abt. telling your mom/dad about it sooner where that should have happened way before 6 months. School teachers need to learn how to see things from all sides and view points since there's always 2 sides to a story, but I totally would have believed u since u weren't the only one on the bus.
@@cicicave1279 Every single one of us kids told the school what was going on. We were told to literally "shut the f*ck up, and go to class" I went to Mancelona schools up until I was 14-15 years old, they had this thing for "being caught red handed" as a good thing, and "being caught green handed" as a bad thing. When it should be the other way around. But, the teachers were born and raised there, so they automatically thought we were just telling them lies as future delinquents as some of our parents were like that in school. So they just brushed it off. I had told my parents before, but they said to tell the principal about what was going on. He just said go to class. I'll call your parents and ask them why you are late for school. Etc. Needless to say after 6 months of not only kids saying something but the parents too they FINALLY watched the camera footage from the bus and did something about it. Most of the kids that did come forward were also known as liars so it made it more difficult for something to be done about it. I was your typical good kid, but refused to do homework because it's stupid to send homework home with a kid who's parents aren't home half the time because they are working their butts off to support not one but two special needs children. Mancelona has multiple nicknames for it due to not only the schools not caring, but the police too. About a 4-5 months before my brother was born, a cop (whom was a very well known Predator in the area) tried to break into my dad's house while I was home sick from school with my aunt. And S/A me and my aunt, my dog Aurora whom was about to pop with babies, attacked him while he was picking the lock. He got away with attempted b&e and attempted assault. While my dog was put down. I was 6 years old. He did succeed a few months later tho.... A month before my brother was born...
@@cicicave1279 Sorry, I know my reply is hectic as all get up. I had to get some information about the Incident from my parents because I left out a lot of details. The cop is no longer alive, he was unalived by a guy because he was breaking into his house to get to his (the cops) daughter and assault her too. (Like I said, Mancelona is fricked up) Mancelona is the Michigan version of Alabama, and yes I know not everyone from there is like that.
@@deathshadow1115 I'm sorry so to hear you had to go through all that. It breaks my heart that pets get put down out of defending not just themselves, but their family. Now, I understand why surveillance cameras for homes are very popular now (idk if u had one when that happened). That particular cop disgusts me and he only got "away" w/what we got away with because of the whole "oh no one ever suspects a cop," type bs, but then again, I am aware that's pretty rare to happen unless it's in a movie. Unfortunately, these predatory type cops make the Good, Honest ones look very bad. Why punish the dog when your home was getting Broken into? Do people really forget that dogs are territorial? If someone even *attempts* to break into a home w/a dog in it, they should always Expect the dog in that home who is ready to attack esp. if/when their is mal intent behind the thief/burglars' actions. And for your dog to be pregnant too, that's the mama in them just like any real human mom would do too. They wouldn't go down w/o a fight in order to protect their own children (e.g. had they been in the same room when it happened). There's no reason to put the dog down for that. How about they ask the cop why he was picking the lock of ur home in the 1st place? Sadly, those type of cops can lie thru their teeth prob. attempting to claim "it's a welfare check," 🙄. I know this is true in some cases, but I don't believe that would be true in ur cases & things like that are *always* noted in the system. Abt. the kids'-that makes more sense since some of them were known to be liars. It sounds like the *entire* school spoke up about it. I can't believe it took the school 6 months to finally check after being told by the same people Multiple times a day about it. I'm glad you were able to get out of that school and hopefully into a better one. It also sounds like multiple other parents' reached out to the school too, but it was def. when ur parents' told them they'd go to the higher ups about the situation. Then they're like, "crap we actually have to look into this." I'm also glad that ur school got a new bus driver too.
@@deathshadow1115 Dang. Either way that cop messed with the wrong dude. This is why people tell others: "Nothing happens until you walk into the wrong house one day." And this is true esp. gun owners who have a legal right to bear arms ofc. Either way, that's messed up on the cop's part. At least he can't do that to anyone else though. I will say I'm thankful for my animals right now where 1 day someone knocked on my door & my dog started barking like crazy & I had never seen anyone sprint as fast as they did when they heard my dog barking. My mom & I have a cat now too so with both animals it prob. won't end well. Given, my cat would prob. run & hide first, but if my dog say doesn't "shut up," and continues for a long time, I have a feeling, our cat would be like: "something's not right." & be there w/my dog if he doesn't run outside first ofc lol. Thankfully, he stays nearby and doesn't wander too far off.
One of my 2nd grade students witnessed a school shooting at a high school basketball game the night before, and he was obviously upset. It was non-fatal, but still upsetting. I'm unsure why he came even a couple hours late.
One time my mom told me she'd take me to school because she didn't have work that day, so I miss the bus and then she remembers that a soap opera she likes is on and it's a rerun of an episode she hadn't seen. She refused to take me to school until the episode and the one after it both ended I was over an hour late to school and got detention from the teacher for "obviously lying" it also ruined my perfect attendance record
Not a teacher, but one time, the football team was getting flamed in a meeting before two-a-days for something. My one friend, who was a freshman, comes walking in late, and I just try to hide from the incoming tirade. Sure enough, the coach yells at him to get out of the room. However, the coach wants to know why he was late before he gets kicked out of the meeting. In the softest, most straightforward response, he says, "There was a train." A second of silence followed by everyone bursting with laughter, including all of the coaches. The meeting went well after that.
5:27 Actually, the word is spelled "coiffure," and it's derived from french. The word in french is just the translation of haircut. The more you know! Source: I am a native French speaker.
All of these were hilarious - i was laughing like a maniac and my brother repeatedly kept turning to ask "What is wrong with you?" "Have you gone crazy?" "That's it, you're mental" or some variation of that Imma show him the vid and comments and hes gonna start too Story: Student - in 2nd grade, my best friend was really late. It was recess, school halfway done, and my friend just walked in with her backpack, dropped it on the ground, and went over to the swings. Naturally, everyone was confused, and we asked why she was late. She stopped and said "My microwave blew up."
Literally. Anyone that accuses someone else of an arrestable offense or felony just to "get one up on them" should have to sit out the term for said felony/crime.
My husbands friend was a probationary policemen in West London, UK in the early eighties and we were in a college doing same course. We were both around 19. He was slightly late and came in looking shellshocked quite frankly. He had just come from helping at the aftermath of a car accident involving a deceased child. We are still friends decades after but i still remember that excuse.
My friends dad told me a story about his first day in college in I forget what class, the professor “was 30 minutes late” then someone said, “What a dead beat professor who doesn’t even show up on the first day of class, let’s leave” no one left, 2 minutes later he stands up and starts teaching like nothing happened. He was the best teacher he ever had
Feb 27, 2023, was about to leave for work, had a weird wave of dissociation, laid down to let it pass, woke up to paramedics surrounding me. I'd had a seizure. I missed work that day but I went to work the next day. My manager legitimately didn't expect me to show up for like three days and told me that she would've been okay with me doing that, so I took the following day off to get my legs massaged because they were sore as fuck
This is a bit different, this belongs to the "my dog ate my homework" category, but this happened to me when I was in school. Back then, here in Finland, after a teacher gave our exams back, we had to take them home and get a parent's signature as a proof that they had seen it. We had had a math exam. I took the exam paper home and my mother signed it as usual. I left the paper on a table for the night. In the morning, I found that one of our cats had eaten one corner of the paper - the corner where the signature was. My mother had already left for work or something, so then I had to go to school and tell the teacher that I don't have the signature because my cat ate it. The teacher only laughed though and said that I can bring it later. She was also amused that that kind of thing can actually happen.
So in my senior year of high school I had to have minor heart surgery (not cut open or anything). Surgery was on a Friday, so I rested that weekend. I should probably mention I am a certified workaholic so this wasn’t a shock to anyone, but that Monday I showed up on time cause math was my first class (which I suck at) and in my second class I had a test. Now, me and the teacher for my second class were close and he knew about my surgery, his face when I came into class (looking like someone who had just had surgery) was just pure disappointment😅. I still took the test because if I didn’t I’d have to wait 2 weeks to retake it because of winter break. I did leave after that class to go rest at home. Later that week I also went to work and my managers (who also know I’m a workaholic) were so shocked and disappointed I didn’t take time off. I have gotten a little better about taking care of myself and calling off school or work when I need too😂😂
It wasn't about being late, but just an excuse that turned out to be true. Was in high school and my German Shepard named Shadow had spent the morning munching on a worksheet I had left on the kitchen table the night before. I was not the type of student to show up to class without completing homework, but when the teacher asked what happened and I couldn't even muster the courage to explain it she pulled me out of the class to talk in the hallway. I assume she was worried about bullying or someone taking it from me. When I told her what happened in detail, she laughed hysterically because she knew I was telling the truth and gave me another sheet to finish and bring her by the end of the school day.
When I was in highschool one of my friends was usually late but his sister was always on time. He drove her to school so he was always just goofing off in the mornings. This particular day both were late which was strange then like 15 minutes into class we see him booking it passed the window outside. Less then a minute later he barges through the classroom door with his forehead bleeding and yells "Got into an acccident and rolled my car!" The teacher told him to get checked out by the nurse before coming back but he just yelled "NO! MY SISTERS STILL IN THE CAR!" and booked it back out of the school. Didnt see either of them until next monday and his sister showed up in crutches verifying his story. they spent the weekend in the hospital but were otherwise ok.
I was in High School. Our Band Teacher was late because he had to go to his son's school...and explain how their dog ate his son's homework....he brought in the bag that his son's shredded and slobber infested remains of his homework was in to show that yes, the dog really did eat his son's homework and that is why he was late to his own class.
I had a student who came in late and told me he and his whole family had been mugged outside their house on the last day of school… his mom was a teacher at the school, and I didn’t believe him. Turns out, 100% true. They stole all the chrome books and everything they were supposed to turn in that day.
Kindergarten teacher here. A pupil of mine rushed in 30 mins late, pretty aggressive, slamming the door. When I was abou to ask, why he was late, he screamed „My dad fucked up!“ and resumed to sit down. He was one of the pupils, who is too late pretty frequently, so I didn’t believe him. When I asked the father after school, he said, that he hit a person with his car and had to wait for the ambulance. It was the father’s fault. I still don’t know, why he has been so aggressive. Could have just told me later. Well, that’s a story. Edit: grammar mistake
I was the student in this case: As I was a highschool technician (a group selected among students, to handle the sound and lighting equipment during special programs) I was asked by a teacher who taugh me in primary school (both were technically in the same building) to help with the equipment for a program of her class. She'll handle whatever blowback from me missing a few classes. Since this happened multiple times in a row at the same period (for multiple weeks) my literature teacher was first skeptical, but after talking wth that primary school teacher perfectly fine with it. After this there was another time when I missed that class by accident (I had a free period before, and didn't check the time to get back to class on time) she didn'teven ask for a reason, and just assumed I was doing technician stuff again. That said, I had a stellar record of being present at just about every class, barely missing any ever for getting sick and such. So I guess it all helped make said literature teacher accept/believe that when I'm not there, there's a damn good reason forme to not be there. Another nice fun fact, as a school technician, we had just about free reign when it came to how we used the school's sound / lighting equipment. I was mostly a sound guy, who barely dabbled with the lights, but I knew how to work those too. However, another school technician guy from our year, who was mostly about the lighting equipment, put together a freakin' amazing lightshow for a special program in our school. After that, it was getting common from teachers to ask for 2 technicians at once for their events, including him, and one of the sound guys (usually either me, or another guy who was 1 year above me). We also took part in teaching the younger technicians how to do stuff properly. TLDR: Having a "role" in the school that teachers accept an appreciate can be a really good excuse, and after a teacher knows it and hears it a few times, they might even assume that was the reason for tardiness even when it wasn't the case. Edit: there were also occassions where the subway / tram broke down right under me (separate occassions) causing a massive delay (an hour or so for the subway,about 45 minutes for the tram)
oddly enough protecting people is only the second highest priority thing the secret service does, the first is preventing and countering counterfeit currency.
A co-worker of mine was late for work because the car in front of them stopped. Then, that driver got out of the car and jumped off the bridge. It was very traumatizing for my co-worker.
This isn't me being late, but rather an excuse about missing homework, but I think it's still worth sharing. "My Chinchilla ate my homework." My pet chinchilla had gotten out of their cage shortly after I'd finished my homework. The packet was sitting on the dining table, which happened to be right in front of the chinchilla's cage door. Next day, teacher doesn't believe me because I can't stop laughing, so I pull out the tattered remnants of the homework packet, which has been reduced to a staple holding together two thin strips of torn up paper, with just enough printed text and pencil marks left to convince her that it was, in fact, my homework that I had filled out before it was eaten.
Unrelated, I know, but whoever designed that parkour map in the background at 7:59 is a freaking GENIUS! That madman made WALLRUNNING IN _TRULY_ VANILLA MINECRAFT-NOT EVEN COMMANDS ARE USED!!! Just fences with ladders below! Couldn’t be simpler, I know, but I legit didn’t even know that trick was a thing until now! Also, that 3D glass maze earlier in the video was pretty epic, too!
16:13 I mean, I was once accidentally shoved into the corner of our bleachers in gym class, the corner hitting me directly in the center of my forehead. But it wasn't that bad, it hurt a bit right during the impact but nothing after that. Then about 2-5 minutes later the gym teacher called me over and told me to go to the nurse's office. I was a bit confused but "out-of-shape child" me didn't want to turn down getting out of gym class for free. So I calmly walked through the halls and went straight to the office looking for the nurse and it wasn't until I walked in and she put something white on my forehead and pulled back something red that I realized I was bleeding. No body told me, I had no idea. It was only then when I finally looked down at my shirt and noticed the streaks of blood that were already run down it. So yeah, even when you are the one bleeding it can be very easy to not notice that you are covered in blood. Bonus, I got out of the rest of gym class that day!
Not a student, but a teacher. He showed up to class 20 minutes late and when he does arrive, dude is drenched in sweat. Like actually drenched. Large pitstains, sweat still dripped down his face, large sweat stain on his back and is completely out of breath. He claimed he was late because he was chased by some people who intended to do him harm in the countryside and he had to ride as hard as he could (he came to school by bicycle) for a long time before he finally reached a safe spot and rather than warning the police or at least telling the principal or something, he just went straight to the class he was supposed to teach. He looked and smelled so bad, they sent him back home and told him to take the rest of the day off. At first, his class didn't wanna believe him and just assumed he lived under disgusting circumstances. Even the school board had a hard time believing his story and pulled much of it into question. Turned out to be true, though. Police caught the guys that were harassing him later that day and they admitted to the harassment as well as some other crimes they had committed, along with some they were still planning to commit. Obviously, no one ever apologized to him for not believing his story. Looking back on it, there was actually a fair bit of crime in my neighbourhood. Nothing that ever affected me personally, but I do have quite a few stories of my childhood and teenage years that involve local crimes. I don't live anywhere near there anymore, but it's weird to think about all this time later. Nothing criminal ever happened to me or even anyone I know, so either I got lucky or it's maybe not as bad as I think it was.
My PSE teacher was like quite late, theres this thing called 'Toasty Tuseday' at a church like 5 minutes down the road from the school that all students who have money can go to. A lot of peoe go as you can get a toasty, drink and cookie for a £1 ! I got to school one day (i was always early to get some alone time to myself before class.) I was talking to new friends of mine then we talked about money for toasty tuseday then. I realized. I had forgotten my purse at my house. I didnt bring lunch and i dont eat much at breakfast and i useally forget my snack so i was like. ''Oh (bleep)'' i text my mum then call her. Not knowing what to do. Then we agree i run or get a bus quickly back home and my mum meets me at my bus stop to give me my purse. I got back home like 2 minutes later as a bus was due as soon as i got to the bus stop. But due to traffic my bus to get back to school was 20 or more minues late. As soon as someone let me in my building. Guess who just ran out their office as soon as i walked into the building to head to my class? My teacher. This dude was 20 or more minutes late have no clue why but i didnt get marked late! So i was lucky ! 😂
In 7th grade some random kid whos usually bullied a lot for being weird came to our class late one day with blood all over his nose and shirt and shorts and when the teacher asked him about he just said: "its nothing im fine" and it turns out he was assaulted by a highschooler for insultjng his mom.
I always showed up to school, even the same day I found out my parents were divorcing, the first day of school after one of y favorite teachers died, when my best friend crushed my heart, when I was unable to speak and so sick I wanted to die (I was sick every other week and sat alone on a couch with a mask in the corner), when I found out my grandpa had dementia and was forgetting me...oh and by the way this was all in the same month and that's not even close to everything that happened in April 2023. I ended up graduating in June of that year, too. And Honors.
German here. I had to take a tram every morning to get to High School in the neighboring city. I always had to swap lines once. On one day I was waiting for the other tram I needed to swap to, seeing a ton of people leaving it on my stop. I didn't think of it as there was a job center in the area and it was during rush hour. Turned out that the driver told the passengers via the speakers before they arrived at the station, that this line would drive in the direction I was coming from, because a severe accident blocked the street ahead. As I had no idea I stepped in and only realized when the tram was turning the wrong direction. I left at the next stop running to another station to maby still catch the bus, but guess what: the bus was 30min late and would not arrive on time (it was on the digital time table). So I decided to walk "the short distance" to school. I absolutely underestimated that distance which turned out to be a bit more than 3km. On the way I collected a handful of my classmates still waiting at stops without a digital timetable. After 45min we finally arrived at our classroom. One minute before the teacher arrived. She only asked why we were so out of breath and after we told her she just said that she appreciated that we tried to be on time.
A story of my roommate and also a classmate at colleage from my point of view. We went to the same class where he put down his bag and said he will have to go and talk a bit with one teacher and so he went there. Now it was normal for both of us to work out and we did not like stairs that much, little less when you have to go to 5th floor, so naturally we were taking elevators quite frequently. The class started and there was no sign of him, which was weird because I know him well and he had no reason to be late. After 20 minutes he came by, apologizing that he got stuck in the elevator.
Here is mine: So, I enter school a whole ass hour late. The teacher says "Your late" I look at her dead in the eyes and say "I was helping a friend that was in the hospital" that was the truth although by teacher didn't believe me. A few hours later, the principal annouces "Mr. Johnson, come down to the office."
I'm gonna preface this by saying I live in Tokyo. I was an hour late because someone jumped in front of the train ahead of mine. It was stop and go. I called work to let them know and they knew already. How you might ask. It was at the station across the street from where i work. Another time I was 3 hours late because there was a huge earthquake the night before. The metro was fine but the JR lines were all fucked. Another time I was half way to work and some ass (honestly I don't know if he were drunk or genuinely sick) vomited down my right leg. Had to turn around and go home to change.
Highschool bus slid off the road into ditch and flipped on the door side so we had to break the windows to get out,only scrapes ,cuts and bruises no serious injury yet we still had to go to school. Our usual bus route got swept away by heavy rain,the damn storm sheared of part of the hill where road is located,we had to go around and lost about 1.5 hour.when asked why late we told road went missing. They didnt believe us until someone showed them.road was fixed very quickly coz its the main one entering the town and few side roads are not equipped for huge traffic
One of my daughters has a condition called "Lethargy" - diagnosed when she was in the ICU down in Brenner's Hospital for other things. Story 10 really reminds me of her.
Once, in fifth grade, it was just a normal day. I was eating breakfast, and then my sisters were chasing each other for a bit. However, while I was getting dressed, we all heard a scream. We have a gas powered oven, so it turned out my sister had played with the fire and forgot to turn off the stove, so we were exposed to high amounts of gas for 30 minutes. We had to call in the school, and I wonder how it felt hearing: "Oh, there was a gas leak in our home."
This reminded me of a kid in my senior class in high school that rolled his truck 3 times (was uninjured) and still came to school and wasn't late. Did i mention he also had an ankle monitor on? He was on probation
This reminds me of the time in elementary school where I was 3 hours late. My parents are divorced and my mom lived almost an hour from where I went to school. One day in December we were driving to school and it started snowing. Within 10 minutes the snow was thick enough that we could barely see 10 feet in front of the hood. We were going very slow because of the weather. After another 20 minutes the snow just stopped. Traffic sped up and we thought I would only be 15-20 minutes late. Then we go stopped between exits. It turns out a semi had rolled and completely blocked the road. After two and a half hours the semi is finally moved enough for us to get by it and we were finally able to keep going
Oh boy I want to tell this one. My family has a really good backyard that is huge and we work extremely hard to make it look beautiful. My job is to mow the lawn which to put this into perspective takes me 2 hours to complete on a riding lawn mower. Because of its size and the work we put behind it we usually have at least a dozen or so people come to us every year to ask us if it would be ok to use our yard for their wedding reception and being the kind people my parents are they usually don’t turn anyone down. However one of them happens to be a reception that occurred on a Wednesday a few weeks before my final exams, and I usually mow the lawn on Saturday. As a result my parents asked if I could mow it on Wednesday before they set up. I didn’t have to mow the whole lawn but I knew it would take about 30 minutes, and because I knew I couldn’t do it after school I decided to do it during lunch. So I drove home and mowed the area they needed, but on my way back I accidentally ran over a corner of an old rug that someone left out. Because of that I spent an extra ten or so minutes getting it out, which of course meant that I was late for my class. I rushed in about 5 minutes late to my teacher that was confused why I had grass on my clothes and my arms had grass stains on them. After class I went up to talk to him and when I told him that I was late because I was mowing a lawn for a wedding reception. Weather it was because I was a good student, that I was covered with grass, or because he knew me well enough to know that I was an honest person he simply chuckled before answering “well that’s the first time I’ve heard that one.” This was years ago and to my knowledge he didn’t dock me any points. Either way it’s awesome talking about it.
Well, I'm no teacher however this one story stands out as one of the funniest from high school. So during my final 3 1/2 years of high school I lived with my dad. 99% of the time I was on time to class and if I was late or absent or whatever I always had a valid excuse and usually it was something that we would do or I was sick or whatever. However there was one day in my sophomore year of high school (I can't really remember the month but I think it was late second quarter or early 3rd quarter) anyway so I was standing outside at 7:00am waiting for the bus to take me to school and we had a big morning as we were being given a very important presentation first period at 8:00am. So while I was standing outside my bus just drove right by my house! I was literally standing there looking at the bus, maybe waving at it but I can't remember for certain and it just drove right by. Much later in the day when it was time to go home my driver told me that they came back to my house and honked the horn to get me to come outside because she realized their mistake. I did not hear the horn and just thought it was a trash truck. Anyway I arrived to the school about 10-15 minutes late and when the office staff heard my story they looked at me with faces of disbelief. Take that with a grain of sault though because all of this happened some 3 years ago in 2021. Regardless I ended up getting an excused late slip and after arriving to class late I just went about my day as normal and I finished off that school year with flying colors eagerly awaiting the arrival of junior year which is another story for another time as I could write an entire essay about my junior year of high school. actually, if this comment gets enough likes I'll tell my junior year story. Anyway that is one of the very few times that I was ever late to class in high school. I hope you enjoyed and find it funny as I do now. lol XD
Hey there, I just wanted to say that you seem like a really fun and enthusiastic person. I was feeling kinda down today, but somehow after reading your comment I feel literally energized! Thank you so much for sharing, and yes that does sound hilarious! 😆😄 Thank you again
I was one of the kids at my school who had to drive, and there were train tracks in between us and the school. Unfortunately, the time the train would go by often coincided with the time we were driving to school and so I was late often. They always just gave out a tardy anyways. I only didn’t get one once- because the teacher was also late because of the train. Thankfully, after that the school sent a notice and the train people or whatever changed the time it came through to the afternoon.
I actually have 2: 1. Near the end of the school year my junior year, my high school band was performing at all the elementary schools in the district (6 in 2 days). Some schools were anywhere between 20 minutes to up to 45 minutes away from the high school, and the band had to give excused absences. Well, one time we had stopped for lunch at a McDonald’s, and the bus wouldn’t start initially. I almost missed all of my other classes. My band teacher had to explain that to the other teachers who were less than enthused. 2. When going to tech school for Travel/Tourism, my car ran out of fuel on the way to class (where my car stalled out was still a good 20 miles away from school). I called ahead to let my one instructor know that I was coming, but I would be late cause I would be walking to school. I hadn’t eaten anything at that point, so about 4 miles in, I stopped at a bench in front of a motel. Another 10 miles later, I stopped at a McDonald’s and not only grabbed an order of French fries, but used the bathroom. By the time I got to the school, I was waiting for the final minutes of the 3rd of 5 classes. At this time, my second instructor was in, and he wondered why I was late. I told him I had called the other instructor to let them know my car died and I wasn’t able to have anyone drive me to class, so I had to walk there. My classmates were shocked and wondered why I didn’t call off. I didn’t want to get my parents angry at me for skipping class, plus by me showing up, that got me to pass for graduation.
him: When the teacher asked what he was doing, the late student said that his country was under attack. Also him right after he said the sentence: When the teacher asked what he was doing, the late student said that his country was under attack. Bro actually repeated himself and thought he was slick
I was late for school, because of a train. The office staff says that wasn't excusable. I acted like what, but didn't out up a fight, because it was just a tardy slip warning, but i saw on their tardy journal that some students overslept and that was excusable. So they expect me and my parents to have the train schedule, but a student who's too lazy to wake up is excused? Had my grandfather been alive he would have tore them a new ass. One time my brother missed the bus and walked over a mile home and my grandpa was like what happened. He told them and the office staff told him to use the payphone and he couldn't use the office phone. He contacted the school the next day and told him that he is not giving my brother extra money for the payphone especially for those kind of situations. He said he should be able to use the office phone and if they have a problem with that he's going to the board of education. Soon after the office phone was allowed in emergency situation such as needing a ride home.
I have 2, both where I'm part of the reason why said student was late. First one (not chronological, just believably) was my freshman year of high school, I had PE first period. My teacher was a real stickler and said to be on time, we had to be dressed in our uniforms and up at the track when class started (at 7:30 in the morning). Well, because of traffic, at 7:20, I was still in my mom's car on the opposite side of campus (which was the size of a small college/uni campus). I just threw open the car door and sprinted to the locker room to get changed (I normally get to school with enough time to hang out with friends, and no way was I doing that in our PE uniform, which I kept in my PE locker). I change as fast as I can, and after retying my shoes, jumped up off the benches, pulling a muscle in my groin. I was one of only 2 students in there, and the other girl heard my gasp of pain. She came over to me keeled over in pain, and had to drag me to the nurse's office (thankfully just above the locker rooms). She ran ahead to get to class while the nurse had to call one of my parents to confirm that yes, I could take ibuprofen for the pain. After, I got a note and limped over to the weight room where my class was for that unit. Teacher clearly wasn't pleased but had no choice because I was still clearly in pain and had a note. Sadly, her policy for missed classes (which apparently this counted for some reason, might be because the teacher hated me) was that I had to make it up by attending another of her classes before my next class period, which was two days after this. My only free period was literally an hour after my regular class period finished. Was probably not the smartest move, but the pain meds had kicked in enough I could at least do an upper body day of weights. Second one (again, not chronological) was when I was like 4. My dad was in engineering school at the time while my mom was at work as an ObGyn. Dad got a call from my day care. Turns out the building had been run over by a truck had been run over by a truck (3 injured, no one dead). Dad had to scramble to get my brother and I to my uncle's place so my aunt could watch us for a few hours because Dad had an exam that day. Aunt clearly didn't believe him but agreed. Dad showed up to class and the exam had already started. Prof wasn't about to let it slide (despite the fact my dad is a stickler for punctuality and would preferably be 10-15 mins early for classes) until another student chimed in that he had heard a story about it on the radio that morning (this was 2000, no one could really check online, though there's actually an article by the Denver Post about this incident still up today). Prof agreed to let Dad just take the test with no more issues. To this day, people still don't believe me when I say my day care was once run over by a truck.
When I was in uni, one of my professors actually said one time "The only reason why I wouldn't allow you to turn in a paper is if you are in a hearst or an ambulance... And then he tells of one story where one of his students, who was also a mom had to rush her kid to school cause he missed his bus, then she went to rush back to her car, slipped on a patch of ice, and broke her leg in front of the school, calling the professor mid-class and told him that she was in an ambulance, and she would try to bring in her paper that was in the car in her son's school parking lot." How he knew she was in an ambulance? He heard all the sirens and ambulance sounds in the background. He said that the paper was worth a good portion of the grade, and he did not like tardy papers. However, he told her "Don't rush it, bring it in when you can."
That story about the guy with the safe is crazy he's literally a real life action movie protag
I nearly died laughing
Haha this safe has some nice goods in in it mate!… why do I hear boss music?
bro could become john wick
Lmao....yea but his nick name needs work.....The White Shaft.....sounds like an adult toy...🤣🤣
Army guys are built different
if youre wondering how someone ended up in class not realizing theyre covered in blood this is whats called shock, dude just described holding someones head in their body before paramedics arrived he 100% was still in shock. it can last much longer than the adrenaline high, days even.
I had the precise same thought. Who could experience something so horrific ad _not_ experience shock and trauma? The poor guy was, no doubt, operating on autopilot after the paramedics arrived and took over -- "Okay, I'm done here. Time to get to class" -- and just... kept going. I hope to goodness her got some good counseling after the nightmare he experienced. Golly, I'd have nightmares about it for the rest of my life!
Yes, some people have had shock for weeks.
TW: gruesome
a paramedic friend once shared a story about someone who had a car accident on his way to work, thinking he only had a nosebleed, he gets to work and his coworkers stare at him and call the ambulance
turns out his whole face was covered in blood because he had a huge hole straight into his nasal cavity (I saw a photo and can't really describe it properly)
There's stories of people missing limbs and not noticing for hours after. So agree with this, 100%
As someone who has had shock, (Not very long, broke my arm, it lasted an hour, i was about 8) it is quite scary how numbing it is, i was in no pain for at least 10-15 minutes
I had a dog that did actually eat paper. My homework was eaten more than once. 'My dog ate my homework.' Got me sent to the office... several times. They refused to call my mother for confirmation. It all sucked.
I’m surprised you’re mother didn’t call the school ahead of time and let them know what happened
I always went with my cat peed on my homework and the first time I brought it in in a gallon Ziploc, so it was still legible, but nobody had to touch the grossness. I was believed more often than it was true that year generally speaking, I was dealing with some messed up stuff at home, and my real reasons for not doing whatever the assignment was were valid and supported by parents, but wouldn’t have been believed by staff. I think I actually only genuinely skived off once. However, I did use a more believable excuse because it was true not infrequently, but wasn’t always the reason the thing wasn’t done.
I had to write this note for my son, twice. Sandy loved paper
My dog got ahold of an essay for AP French and tore it to shreds. I had to rewrite the entire thing. I’m not a native French speaker. It took hours 😬
Maybe don't feed your homework to your dog.
Oh man I have the most ironic story ever. In college I had to get a train every day to get there. The trains in my area suck and always break down or run late or *insert issue here*. Eventually I got called to a meeting with the head of my course, to discuss my "future on the course due to my constant lateness". Guess what happened on my way in to the meeting.... You guessed it. I hate trains.
Edited to add: I plead my case, they let me stay, I finished college and went on to university where I also graduated. Happy ending ✨
Brazil?
I mean… if you’re late that often, you need to leave earlier, even if it means being early most days (I’m sure the transit is better where I live, but I’d rather be an hour early than fifteen minutes late). And if it was that common a problem you wouldn’t have been worth singling out from the class. Your story mostly says you don’t take responsibility for your actions. It becomes a lot less ironic when you think about it that way.
@@faiora it wasn't possible to leave any earlier for me. I already left an hour and a half early, and the bus to the train station only started at a certain time in the morning. I had no choice but to get the same train every day, I literally physically had NO other way of getting to the train station.
@@faiora Tell me you don't understand other people necessities without telling me you don't understand other people necessities
@@faioraYou've always had access to cars, haven't you?
A girl in my German class was late once because she found a dead body. She was riding her bike to school when she saw a homeless man sleep in a bench. At first, she just kept going, but she felt like she had to stop. So she did, and he was dead.
So she had to call emergency services and wait for help to arrive. She basically just went to school, told the teacher (and those of us who were in class) what happened, and then she ran out puking before she got taken to the councillor.
Poor dude was surely toten ja?
@@slaqualquercoisamemo5117 er war tot, ja. Ich glaube, dass er entweder erfroren oder verhungert.
Wow that's horrible
When I was in high school, I had an alarm clock with control buttons on the top. Because it was plugged in, it was a little warm, so my cat liked to sit on it. My teachers never believed me when I told them I was late because my cat turned my alarm off.
Lol
I went to lunch one day and had to call my boss to tell him I would be late and wasn't sure how long I would be. He asked why and I told him that elephants were in my way. Now my office is in an industrial area right across the river from downtown in Portland Oregon. He very sarcastically said "right". I said 'no, really'. He disgustedly said 'fine, just hurry up'. Right then the elephants next to me trumpeted and I held the phone out the window. When I put the phone back to my ear, there was a very long silence before he just hung up. Lol.. the circus had come to town and police had the street blocked off so they could line up and head out.
one of the few comments i actually like (like press the like button. also did i just say like 4 times in one sentence and it makes sense? a bit of sense at least)
but its not even finished@@crosssans9984
if it wasn’t also done in Boston i wouldn’t believe you, but it was common to do before they stopped
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Funniest I've had was a student (16 years old) who called in and said she would be late because she had to help deliver a lamb. No-one questioned it since we all knew her family did indeed run a sheep farm, and, heck, it's not like you can argue that that's an invalid excuse. This was a school with a farming profile where many of the students were children of farmers and some of the things they studies included tractor driving, animal care, and crop sowing, so technically it wasn't even a weird reason for a student to be late.
I don't know what year it was (my school is over 50 years old and the teacher who told this story has been there, for a while, I believe he turned 70 this year so he could have been here for almost the schools entire existence, we make jokes that he is really the one in charge, not the principles) and since he ran an ag class, and most of his students came from parents who had farms, he had them one day drive their tractors to school (I learned how to drive a tractor in this class, welding and mechanics, if it wasn't covid time I would have learned how to use a chainsaw), tractors are very slow, so they ended up causing a traffic jam, as a good 50+ tractors arrived at school. The principle at that time was apparently pissed, and banned the teacher from letting students bring their tractors to school ever again. Though a different principle did let students bring in their horses in (when most of the school property was still just fields, there are 3,000+ people in this school now, and they plan on expanding it further in the coming years to fit more).
Are these all from quora or something because they all end in ... in the comments
@@duck2659if you mean the comments in youtube, try clicking/tapping "Read More"
@@BobBob-vy9dsbet that teacher wanted to pull a prank cause they definitely knew how slow tractors were
Student: "My school bus driver drove us through a field, because the road was blocked by a snow drift, and the plow was stuck in it."
School Official (showing great skepticism): "If that's true, why are you late?"
Student: "The field wasn't plowed at all."
School Official (seeing there were quite a few students, needing attention) Wait there; I'll deal with you later. (Summoning the next student) Are you late? Why?
Student 2: "I was on the same bus. The driver really drove our bus through a field."
School Official: (showing exasperation and maybe a bit defeat): "How many of you in line were on this bus?"
(Large number of hands raised. I think I heard someone in the office laugh.)
honestly, even if they weren't, it's a great excuse.
@@rosydevils3390 We couldn't believe the driver did it. There was snow in the field,too; It just wasn't deep, because that's where the snow had come from when it drifted the road shut. Beneath it, the rutted ground was frozen solid. We were bouncing around like marbles being shaken in a can.
@@catreader9733 I feel bad for u but afterwards it sounds like it would’ve been funny to think back on.
This soulds like it was from my school discovery academy of lake alfred
@@rosydevils3390 You are correct on both counts.
In high school another student would often be tardy or absent and always had something of an excuse but ur professor strictly told him that he’d be suspended if he was late again without a proper parent note excuse.. next time when he came in late he handed the teacher a note from his mother that stated, “ please excuse my son for being late, our pet orangutan died this morning and he had to bury it”.
No he did not have an orangutan but I have never forgotten how hilarious that moment was. Mr.A simply looked at him, snickered, read the note aloud to us, then sat down and laughed so hard he had tears coming from his eyes and told him he was excused from being tardy.
Score one for creativity!
When I was in eighth grade, my science teacher loved teasing students in front of the class when they showed up late or missed a class. I had missed class one day because I was at a funeral and went up to him to ask what I had missed since there was no Canvas module for that day. He did his usual “oh were you just sick of school?” Keep in mind, I’m a pretty good student and hardly ever miss class. I simply replied “no” and asked him again if there was anything I missed. He decided to take it a little further and jokingly asked “oh, then, did someone die?”
I said, “yes, actually” and pulled out the obituary. Dude went white, apologized profusely and told me it was very unprofessional of him to ask and never teased a student about being late or not showing up after that.
I'm glad he apologized. Some teachers wouldn't have.
DAMN. I'm so glad he never did that again after that, I hate when teachers do this 😭
My dad had a similar incident in middle school. He and his brothers missed school because of their Dad’s funeral. He gets to school the next day and the music teacher (I’m a music teacher, so this really p**ses me off) snidely asks, “where were you yesterday?” Like, you couldn’t read the attendance report yesterday, seriously? My dad’s response: “I was at *my father’s FUNERAL.*” That shut the jerk up right away. My dad hated him so much, that when my brother was a kid, the same teacher was still there, but teaching the gifted and talented program, and my parents wouldn’t let him do it because of THAT teacher (and some other stuff, but mostly him).
I was late once and teacher asked me why. I answered "Honestly - I don't know. I woke up as usual, left my home as usual and was walking with the same speed I always do." I'm pretty sure we laughed about it. Still don't know, why have I never heard this answer from anyone else. When people are late for a minute or 2, they are usually just staying there akwardly and say nothing. But come on, is there actually your fault, if your your everyday time management, that always worked before, just didn't work out one day?
I remember my personal best "I was Late" story.
My bus route took us across a double set of railroad tracks, so train delays were relatively common. Usually, it was only a few minutes. This day? We were stopped by a reasonably long train. After the end passed, we saw a second train on the second set of tracks. We wait for this one to also pass... only for it to stop. With the end in sight. Then it started backing up. I don't remember exactly how late we were, but with an entire bus late (it was a small school), it was pretty obvious it was none of our fault for missing a chunk of the morning.
I ended up being late going home from school. A kid threw a water bottle out of the bus window and hit someone's car while we were all moving in traffic. Police were called, and everyone got held up. Our parents had to call the school to learn none of us were lying. The kids who threw the bottle got in so much trouble. It was a wild ride.
My personal best "I was late" story would be that time I arrived 45 minutes late. It was a public transport strike day (this is how i tell you i'm French without telling you i'm French), so there was less than half as much buses as usual. It was also super rainy so I preferred going by bus than by foot if possible. The bus I ended up taking was packed af and we had to spend a lot of time at each stop, so i ended up 45 minutes late. I would probably have went faster by foot but urgh, one hour of walking under that rain isn't pleasant. So when i arrive i expect to have a lot to catch up. However, it turned out the teacher had come only 5 minutes before me, also struggling with the strike.
The story about the safe being stolen needs to be made into a movie
Not a teacher, i was the student. Teachers never believed me. I get motion sick easily so i couldn't ride the bus, so my mom had to drive me to school. I was always 1-6 minutes late because I'm the youngest of 3, the least favorite child, and my mom generally has no concept of time. My teachers eventually got so fed up with me being late that they put in my permanent record that i had after school detention and Saturday detention for basically the rest of my life, longer than I'd ever be in school for, as though it were somehow my fault. Tf am i supposed to do, drive myself to school every day at 8 years old? Ride the school bus and vomit everywhere every day, embarrassing myself in front of all my classmates, because of severe motion sickness, and be too nauseous to focus for most of the day? *Walk several miles because i live at the edge of the school district?* Nah. Not my fault, so i stopped going to detention, and the teachers decided to give me *even more* detention that I'd just not go to. I once was threatened with suspension and just said "So you're going to punish me for missing school by making me miss more school?" Took them a second before they realized their mistake and just gave up. I switched schools a couple years later and got called into the principal's office on day one, he looked through my file and said "It says here you have detention for the next 500 years. That can't be right." And just took that page out of my file and shredded it. I didn't say a word.
Think about it for a second. I had detention every school day and every Saturday for the rest of my life at least 5 times over, all for something i had no control over. Fuck schools in america, man, useless prisons for children meant to do jack shit except keep them out of their parents' hair. I had excellent grades and still didn't learn anything about how to survive in the real world, almost nothing i learned in school has stuck with me, and what little did was either incredibly basic or completely useless for real life. I learned more from watching flash animations (tim and moby) and the science channel than i ever learned in a classroom. Hell, when i got my GED the test only covered things i learned in like 4th grade and bits and pieces of things learned later. None of it was practical for the real world.
Sorry, rant over.
should of gave them middle ------ after 1 week of that...however how were you fine with car driving but not bus driving ? its not rly any different..thats the part that dont make sense...as in regard to schools not all of them are as bad as that...governement stuff should been taught to you by parents not school(a good chunk of parents dont care to bother unfortunetly)...advanced maths are good for more complex jobs(like working at NASA for say)...classes i'd call useless are own language class, history class(useless except for those interest in being archeologists), biology class(if you dont aspired to work in that kin of stuff)..these classes are a huge waste of time if you got no interest in it....Biology,History, Science class should be optionnal classes(as in pick 1 out of the 3)....not all 3.... own language class should stop after 3-4 years of it..not drag for 10 years of classes..if you haven't learn to write after 3-4 years you will never improve further anyway
@@bllllood Your idea of useless and my idea of useless are apparently exact opposites.
Edit: As for car VS school bus, they're very different. School busses have assigned seats, and my seat was near the back. I get car sick because of not being able to see the motion that I feel. When there's a dozen other seats in front of me and I can't see the road moving, that makes me sick. Plus, the busses smell horrible, from the amount of gross children packed in like sardines. Plus some other kids get carsick and then there's a vomit smell mixed in, which makes it even worse. The car however is different, because I can ride in the front passenger seat and look straight ahead and see everything moving around me. And there's nobody there but my mom, and the only smell in there is the air freshener, if there is one.
By your way of speaking I assume you're not American, so in case you didn't know, those yellow school busses you sometimes see in movies that only have schoolkids on them? They're real.
@@StormTheSquid those exist in Canada too....and taken them..but never smell awful...must of been unlucky if your smelled awful
@@bllllood Not unlucky, just American. Schools are so underfunded and understaffed that they basically can't afford to clean the busses.
@@StormTheSquid Just wondering, but why did yours have assigned seating? The one I took never had assigned seating to my knowledge and we sat where we felt was best for us at the time. I remember taking it in high school quite a bit & where it dropped us off at, my "area" was always the last stop. I prob. occasionally took it in middle school. And I remember my bus being mixed age groups and I don't remember what this little girl was going on about, but she had some sass in her that day & even the bus driver noticed that b/c she's usually not sassy, but everyone else on the bus got a kick out of her sass. Given, she could have been short for her age b/c she did look like she was in elementary school, but she easily could have been in middle school. Then again, I was always 1 of the taller kids too though. Basically, that little girl was little in a good way, but the sass she had that day was so funny.
I missed class one day to watch an inauguration happen. My professor told me if I got a note from the governor it would be excused. He got a selfie with the governor instead. He thought I was joking until that point. It was an excused absence
Sorry English is not my first language. What is a governor?
@@bas_ela governor is like the person who runs the state
@@AngelLopez-is12 thank you
@@bas_elGoogle is your friend for questions like this, since a lot of people on the internet, unlike AngelLopez, like to be jerks for no good reason.
you forgot the part where your parents are party officials and donors so you had to be there for it
if you’re going to steal a story, at least use the whole story
It’s my senior year of high school, and I’m just driving like I always do, taking my normal route. I lived in a very isolated area and most of the neighbors were elderly, so the streets were pretty to much always empty. I had two free periods every Tuesday morning that year, so I didn’t leave for school until around 9:45. Maybe a few miles into the drive, I slam on the brakes. There’s a little girl, probably around 12, sprawled out in the crosswalk. Not even bothering to pull over, I shove the door open and hop out of the car. I run over and kneel beside the girl. She’s barely conscious and is coughing up blood. I call the paramedics, and they’re there within minutes. At that point I was in really deep shock, so most of what happened after that is blurry. I do remember, however, walking into school an hour late with blood coating my hands. To put it simply, I had a rather interesting conversation with the dean that day. I got a call from the girl’s single dad a few days later, thanking me for saving his angel’s life. I’m still in touch with him - we’ve actually come to be quite close companions - but the incident was never mentioned again. She’s alive and well and doesn’t walk to and from school on her own anymore, but that’s the extent of my knowledge. Back to the school part, though. The rest of my day was pretty average, save for my AP Euro teacher making me stay an hour after school to take a test I missed that morning. And I got an A!
Well done on ALL accounts! :D
I use to come in after school started I did not have a first period. This was all above bored and approved. Came in late once by 15 minutes and teacher gives me grief saying I should not be late since I didn’t have to rush in and if i plan accordingly I should always be on time. I said “sorry the resource officer and town police had the lot blocked for the K9 walking the lot doing drug searches” as they did occasionally while we were in class. He snarky said I always park in the back lot normally where teachers park so he did not believe me. I said yes that’s the one they are searching I parked out front. He turned pale. Apparently he was put on leave the dog hit on his vehicle. He tried appealing saying they had no right to search his vehicle but he didn’t win.
My sister once had to deal with a student taking over 15 minutes for a pee break (toilets are a few meters away, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes), during class. She walked in, inmediately walked up to my sister and said: "sorry I took so long, someone was passed out in the toilets so I got someone to get help whilst I stayed with the student. It took a while to get the help." My sister knew that this student was not likely to lie, but didn't really believe it. She still let the student go without consequenses. Later on during that day, my sister spoke to administration, turned out the student had spoken the truth. The sick student had a chronic disease which caused that student to feel unwell, go to the toilet and pass out. My sisters student handled it like an adult, even tho both students were 15 years old at the time. That student also got a lot of praise, as most teachers learned what had happened before the day was over.
No one ever found me, but yeah, I missed a lot of class passend Out in the bathroom . . . When I came in late because of that Inwas let Go No questions asked since apparently I looked Like an extra from the Walking dead and since I Had a really high working Moral, I was well liked by Most of my teachers. The only one WHO never believed me was the PM teacher . . .IT lead to a Lot of disrupted classes cause I fainted or broke down crying or throwing Up from pain . . .she never learned from it
Maybe he had Crohn's disease.
Not sure if this fits here but one time in high school I showed up for gym class late due to stomach pains. The teacher for that class didn't believe me and made me participate in the lesson, which was an excruciating hour-long ordeal of various stretches and exercises that were already difficult for me due to lung-related issues. As it turned out, I had food poisoning from a burger I'd eaten the night before and, as the lesson progressed, I got more and more sick. You can imagine the look on the teacher's face when he was forced to call the school nurse to check me out, then send me home because I was clearly too sick to even be in school, let alone doing physical activities.
I was delirious, sweating profusely, and a variety of other nasty side effects I won't name here. That was also the incident that put said teacher on blast, because he'd been pushing me well past my limit all year and I was too tired to do my work properly in following classes, which meant half my grades were suffering. Funnily enough, we didn't see him the next year. Rumor had it that he'd been doing the same thing to other students with disabilities and medical issues, but that was the first time he'd gotten caught so publicly, so it was probably for the best. He was a bully and I don't regret following orders, so there's some malicious compliance there too.
TLDR: bully teacher gets caught assuming a student is lying about being in pain when said student starts making a mess of the basketball field mid-lesson and has to send me home. Fun bonus: he assumed I was using 'girl issues' to make excuses for myself.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 First of all, I'm not religious. Second of all, repent for what? Being bullied by a man twice my age in front of a group of other students? Getting yelled at for the fact that I have asthma and I'm 'not trying hard enough'? No, I don't think I will.
@@EvonneSol its a bot bro u can just ignore it
@@cosmicplays3788 Yeah, I realized after I posted that. Still kind of annoying, though.
@@EvonneSol ye i find these bots on almost every vid i watch
Had a similar situation once, though not due to me being late for anything, I was never late for any classes (I either showed up for class or I was absent due to not being at school at all due to either illness or injury), and since the teachers often gave about 5 minutes before actually starting the class, there were never any major issues even for students who were late. Then one day during gym class I'm bending over to pick up a basketball and I happen to lose my balance and fall, and as I'm falling my right sneaker does it's job *_too_* well and keeps my foot firmly planted and un-moving while the rest of my body spins 180 degrees. I am very clearly injured as a result due to the fact that I had to use the bleachers to pick myself back up and I could hardly put any weight whatsoever on my right foot. The gym teacher thought I was faking until I outright *TOLD* him that I was hurt and that I couldn't put any weight on my leg (which should have been obvious, and it _was_ obvious to the other students in class who could clearly tell that I was genuinely hurt, as I can remember the looks of concern on their faces quite clearly, even all these years later). I then had to drag myself to the nurse's office while leaning on the wall for support, after which the nurse called my dad to come pick me up so that he could take me to a doctor. Turns out I'd sprained my ankle pretty badly and I wound up on crutches for over a week as a result. Naturally, this also exempted me from gym class until my ankle had fully recovered as well.
What annoys me the most about that situation though is that my gym teacher thought I was faking an injury when I had *_NEVER_* done such a thing before, as I actually enjoyed Gym class. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to suspect a student who has never once faked an injury over the course of several *_years_* at that school, when said student is visibly and very badly limping and unable to put any weight on their leg? And I made it pretty clear that I was not happy with the gym teacher when I next showed up to gym class on *_CRUTCHES_* by giving him a visibly irritated look.
Once I called into work saying I couldn't make it. I'd spent the night with my mother in the emergency room because she was bleeding out. Next day I was told how me not coming into work showed I wasn't committed enough to my job.
Imagine thinking it’s even remotely acceptable to think you should be more committed to your job then your family
Imagine thinking it’s even remotely acceptable to think you should be more committed to your job then your family
Imagine thinking it’s even remotely acceptable to think you should be more committed to your job then your family
Imagine thinking it’s even remotely acceptable to think you should be more committed to your job then your family
Imagine thinking it’s even remotely acceptable to think you should be more committed to your job then your family
When I was in 5th grade my teacher loudly asked why I was late to class and didn’t have my backpack. I loudly told her back “BECAUSE I WAS IN COURT” she didn’t believe me. This then turned into a class discussion of how lying was unacceptable. Eventually I got fed up with her and begged her to call the office or better yet, my mom. She eventually did call the office and when they told her I actually was in court she shut up real quick. And that was the day every kid in my class found out my parents were fighting for custody of me and my brother.
Side note the court said “it would be better to have blah blah blah blah blah amount of time with [our bio dad]”
Despite them reading our hand written notes about how much he and our stepmom was abusing us in almost every way possible. I was way worse than my brother. As well as how they literally tried to poison me and how I got punished for throwing up. My brother is now 21(?) 22(?) and I’m 17. Still forced to go. I’ll be 18 in March and I actually cannot wait to never see them again. They still abuse me. Such as withholding food. I know every person I tell will side with my bio dad because he’s a cop. Blue code of silence stuff iykyk. I’m ashamed to say I’m related to that pos
call CPS
@@Jpengma I think they are trying to get out of seeing me the next 2 months ( I turn 18 in March) so there’s a plus. But as well cos doesn’t do crap. And they’d probably also side with him being a cop.
@@Ya_boi_jasper Stay strong sis, stay strong. March is almost here!
CPS kidnaps children 💩💩@@Jpengma
@@Ya_boi_jasper March ends today let us know
As a kid, I have one of these. My mother’s car got stolen in the middle of the night, so when I went to go to school for the day, we had an awfully hard time finding the car. Ended up being an hour late after a family friend was able to finally get me to school/get my mom to the rental store. Ended up giving the school the police report to get the tardy excused, wild times.
In all fairness, the guy had just seen a horrible accident, held a man’s scalp onto its proper place, while the poor person was screaming…I don’t think it ever entered his mind to check out his appearance…he was in SHOCK.
In highschool i was already running late, because i went to a shop to get some snacks in between classes, and slipped when running down the stairs. Because i had a bag in my hands, i did not break the fall and went head first into gravel path. Because of shock, i just went straight to class with "sorry im late", and seeing the teachers face pale in seconds with a horrible look was pretty funny. I must have looked like from a horror film, with my whole face bloody, and missing a few square inches of skin from my forehead and dripping blood from my nose and face. There was screaming from the students, but i got quickly rushed to nurses office and ambulance got called. In the end it was nothing much, mild concussion some missing skin and a bunch more scraped as hell, but it healed pretty fine, just had to wear a huge patch over the forehead and nose for a couple of weeks, only got two days off school. Shame that no one took a picture, cuz the picture after cleanup was not that interesting to see.
My English teacher my senior year of high school told us a story of one senior who was 45 minutes late, came into his class without a tardy slip. Teacher goes, “dude, you’re late!” And the student without missing a beat goes, “Yes, but I brought breakfast” and holds up a Whataburger bag and sure enough bought breakfast for the whole class. We asked him if the student was late that day and he said, “not that day he wasn’t” 😂😂😂
"School bus blew up" has the same energy as "Moon's haunted"
I was late because I had my brother drive me to work once and his tire exploded on the highway for dry rot. One of the other tires were also about to give soon too. I still have pictures of the aftermath. Tire was COMPLETELY shredded.
"Secret Service apparently investigates couterfitting." Well, of course they do. It's one of their main jobs
And yes, I intended to make this comment an "Erm, achually"
their first job: protecting the President only came decades later!
I have a pretty good one but it will take a bit. I was working in a four-star resort as a chef on top of a hill but this was my first job since graduating high school and I didn't have a car and barely enough to buy a beaten, old, bicycle which I used to bike to work everyday. However, due to the tread of the back tire being so worn out the the inner tube was exposed and caused the inner tube to pop around three to four times a week usually on the way to work since the resort was on top of a large set of hills for the view. Needless to say, I was late frequently for around a month until I could get new treads that properly protected the inner tubes. But it doesn't end there, by the time I had the bicycle fixed I was made fun of for being late so, knowing that my bike was no longer a problem, I promised that tomorrow I would do everything in my power to be on time. That night I set two alarms and double checked my bike for problems and went to bed. I woke up, got dressed and rode my bike to work with no issues. So I check in and strode confidently into the kitchen and look at everyone and announce my timeliness. Then one of the cook walks up to me, puts his hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eye and says, "Buddy, it's day lights savings, you're one hour late." Of which my response was, and I quote, "That's not fair."
It's just not fair
Our class clown, who could deliver *anything* with a straight face, always told our teachers he crapped himself and had to go home to change pants. He knew there would be no follow up questions or punishments. Our teachers mustve thought he had some serious intestinal issues, because this happened so often.
I was a smoker and creative little bugger, often late to class and didnt really care about punishments or being told off, so I told I had been in Wonderland with Alice and all the clocks were wrong, couldnt help it. I remember only one teacher, her sense of humor surgically removed, chewing me out. Her attempts to establish dominance or authority in odd ways backfired tho, she became hated by pretty much our whole class.
I have a couple of those:
- A group of kids arrived quite late once, when they finally showed up they claimed the school bus had a minor crash with a public bus and emergency services took a lot to show up (latam stuff) so they had to push the bus out of the highway and then had to wait for the school to send a teacher (because no bus driver was available) to pick them up in another bus. They then procceeded to show me pictures of the whole ordeal, including the older students pushing the bus and the teacher-driver looking frustrated af.
- I had two eleventh grade kids that were from a very, VERY wealthy family and we suspect they were actually involved with a drug cartel (the family, not the kids). They stopped showing up for a couple of days and finally they sent a video to their homeroom teacher where a relatively popular national singer said something like "Hey teacher, I'm sorry so and so didn't show up, they were celebrating their birthday and they are still partying with me" and then sang a small piece of one of his songs for the teacher.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5yeah, you need to keep the commandments. Relying on a sacrifice won't save you if you don't do what Gd said.
My own excuse was that while I was waiting outside next to the car for my mom to come out and drive me, I heard a crash and I scream at the end of our driveway. We lived in front of a busy road, and it turns out that a truck hit a man on a motorcycle and broke his back. My mom immediately rushed off to help while I just watched in shock, the entire driveway ended up being blocked by the crash and piled up cars. It was probably around 30 minutes to an hour till things cleared up enough to go to school-
Not the wildest story here but, hopefully mildly interesting...
My second year of college, I was roommates with my toxic best friend and 2 young boys were living with us at the time and we were responsible for taking care of them. Basically their unofficial guardians.
My boss wanted me to work morning shifts at the convenient store. I had an 9:30 AM class (I think) so I had to leave work around 9 AM hopefully, but I usually didn't get to leave until about 9:15. I lived across the street. So I would race home, my best friend, had 99% of the time, drove my car to work so she wasn't late. Her work was about 1/3 of a mile away. So I would race to her work. Race into her store (where she worked) have to track her down for my keys, and try to get to class.
While sometimes also dealing with something with the boys, if they were home from school, or were calling, or someone was calling about them, etc.
I was only allowed 2 absences that whole semester. I failed.
Damn you ex friend really just messed up everything. Hope all is going well for you now!
@@voidtectonic unfortunately that was only a small fraction of the things she messed up. Although I have to take some accountability because I should've known better after I let things happen time and time again. But thank you I appreciate your kindness. I want to eventually talk about my experiences on TH-cam and online. I've made some shorts but they're not really about my personal life. I'm nervous to talk about personal stuff like that. I'm doing okay now, living on my own, kind of, got a whole new set of goals. Hope you're doing well too!
The funeral procession story got me. I couldn't stop laughing at the "I'll be damned" comment lol
My country is being attacked. Sounds like a personal tragedy to me.
Not a teacher, but for final exams, you’re not allowed to enter the room once the test begun, unless you have a really good reason. This one guy came in and gave a proctor a good excuse. He just handed over his speeding ticket.
I would've been on time too! If only I had avoided those damn meddling cops.
When I was in college, I was usually one of those people who was always on time for classes. Only ever turned up late one time, and that was because of unusual circumstances. Midway through the journey, I happened to realise that I left my wheelchair behind in the parking lot, so I had to tell my driver to turn back and get it.
Fortunately, the faculty were very understanding
I got hit by a car once when cycling to school. My friends didn't believe me, since I often made up silly stories for them, and I wasn't badly hurt, just maybe a bit bruised and shaken up during the morning. The man who hit me was very apologetic and offered me a ride to school (he had small children in the back). I probably could have accepted, but I turned it down because stranger danger. When I was in first period, one of the pastoral staff asked to see me and she said she had a phone call from the man's wife concerned about me.
I wasn't considerably late, but I wasn't bothered about getting to school on time as I knew that would be a valid excuse.
Not a teacher, but when I was about 10 or 11 I had a substitute bus driver for 6 months, and she was mean, you couldn't talk during the bus ride, you couldn't get off the bus at the school until she was done going inside to use the bathroom and eat her breakfast at each school she stopped at, when she first started though, she would pick up a set of kids at a singular bus stop, drive to the appropriate school for them and drop them off, qnd go get the next set of kids, I and several others missed over half the school day several times and i had to tell the office multiple times about it and they told me to deal with it at first until i told my mom and called my dad while he was at work (my parents weren't together, they still aren't but co parent very well) and they called the school and said to fix it or they would be calling the higher ups about it. Needless to say the issue was fixed, and i got a new bus driver a week later. But the teachers refused to believe those of us who had to deal with it for 6 months because "kids lie" so i had lunch detentions left and right for 6 frickin months. But i eventually moved schools and didn't have to ride a bus anymore.
+deathshadow1115 Apart from yourself, did other kids your age speak up about it too? I've learned that kids actually tell the truth the majority of the time and if/when they do lie, it's usually a little white lie to prevent hurting someone else's feelings. But the fact that it was something big like this esp. abt. a bus driver that's *supposed* to get kids to/from school On Time, the adults should have had a clue there. The adults seem to always say to kids: "see something, say something," and the minute kids choose to speak up about something, these same adults don't believe them-is there a reason behind that?
Ex and given, I understand not believing 1 child. But if say there's *multiple* kids telling the same things abt. the same person multiple times a day should = a little click in the teacher's mind like, "hey something needs to be done about this when I have about 10-20 students telling me the same things abt. the same person." I understand u were only 10 at the time, but only if u had thought abt. telling your mom/dad about it sooner where that should have happened way before 6 months. School teachers need to learn how to see things from all sides and view points since there's always 2 sides to a story, but I totally would have believed u since u weren't the only one on the bus.
@@cicicave1279 Every single one of us kids told the school what was going on. We were told to literally "shut the f*ck up, and go to class" I went to Mancelona schools up until I was 14-15 years old, they had this thing for "being caught red handed" as a good thing, and "being caught green handed" as a bad thing. When it should be the other way around. But, the teachers were born and raised there, so they automatically thought we were just telling them lies as future delinquents as some of our parents were like that in school. So they just brushed it off. I had told my parents before, but they said to tell the principal about what was going on. He just said go to class. I'll call your parents and ask them why you are late for school. Etc. Needless to say after 6 months of not only kids saying something but the parents too they FINALLY watched the camera footage from the bus and did something about it. Most of the kids that did come forward were also known as liars so it made it more difficult for something to be done about it.
I was your typical good kid, but refused to do homework because it's stupid to send homework home with a kid who's parents aren't home half the time because they are working their butts off to support not one but two special needs children. Mancelona has multiple nicknames for it due to not only the schools not caring, but the police too. About a 4-5 months before my brother was born, a cop (whom was a very well known Predator in the area) tried to break into my dad's house while I was home sick from school with my aunt. And S/A me and my aunt, my dog Aurora whom was about to pop with babies, attacked him while he was picking the lock. He got away with attempted b&e and attempted assault. While my dog was put down. I was 6 years old. He did succeed a few months later tho.... A month before my brother was born...
@@cicicave1279 Sorry, I know my reply is hectic as all get up. I had to get some information about the Incident from my parents because I left out a lot of details. The cop is no longer alive, he was unalived by a guy because he was breaking into his house to get to his (the cops) daughter and assault her too. (Like I said, Mancelona is fricked up) Mancelona is the Michigan version of Alabama, and yes I know not everyone from there is like that.
@@deathshadow1115 I'm sorry so to hear you had to go through all that. It breaks my heart that pets get put down out of defending not just themselves, but their family. Now, I understand why surveillance cameras for homes are very popular now (idk if u had one when that happened). That particular cop disgusts me and he only got "away" w/what we got away with because of the whole "oh no one ever suspects a cop," type bs, but then again, I am aware that's pretty rare to happen unless it's in a movie. Unfortunately, these predatory type cops make the Good, Honest ones look very bad.
Why punish the dog when your home was getting Broken into? Do people really forget that dogs are territorial? If someone even *attempts* to break into a home w/a dog in it, they should always Expect the dog in that home who is ready to attack esp. if/when their is mal intent behind the thief/burglars' actions. And for your dog to be pregnant too, that's the mama in them just like any real human mom would do too. They wouldn't go down w/o a fight in order to protect their own children (e.g. had they been in the same room when it happened). There's no reason to put the dog down for that. How about they ask the cop why he was picking the lock of ur home in the 1st place? Sadly, those type of cops can lie thru their teeth prob. attempting to claim "it's a welfare check," 🙄. I know this is true in some cases, but I don't believe that would be true in ur cases & things like that are *always* noted in the system.
Abt. the kids'-that makes more sense since some of them were known to be liars. It sounds like the *entire* school spoke up about it. I can't believe it took the school 6 months to finally check after being told by the same people Multiple times a day about it. I'm glad you were able to get out of that school and hopefully into a better one. It also sounds like multiple other parents' reached out to the school too, but it was def. when ur parents' told them they'd go to the higher ups about the situation. Then they're like, "crap we actually have to look into this." I'm also glad that ur school got a new bus driver too.
@@deathshadow1115 Dang. Either way that cop messed with the wrong dude. This is why people tell others: "Nothing happens until you walk into the wrong house one day." And this is true esp. gun owners who have a legal right to bear arms ofc. Either way, that's messed up on the cop's part. At least he can't do that to anyone else though. I will say I'm thankful for my animals right now where 1 day someone knocked on my door & my dog started barking like crazy & I had never seen anyone sprint as fast as they did when they heard my dog barking. My mom & I have a cat now too so with both animals it prob. won't end well. Given, my cat would prob. run & hide first, but if my dog say doesn't "shut up," and continues for a long time, I have a feeling, our cat would be like: "something's not right." & be there w/my dog if he doesn't run outside first ofc lol. Thankfully, he stays nearby and doesn't wander too far off.
One of my 2nd grade students witnessed a school shooting at a high school basketball game the night before, and he was obviously upset. It was non-fatal, but still upsetting. I'm unsure why he came even a couple hours late.
One time my mom told me she'd take me to school because she didn't have work that day, so I miss the bus and then she remembers that a soap opera she likes is on and it's a rerun of an episode she hadn't seen. She refused to take me to school until the episode and the one after it both ended I was over an hour late to school and got detention from the teacher for "obviously lying" it also ruined my perfect attendance record
Not a teacher, but one time, the football team was getting flamed in a meeting before two-a-days for something. My one friend, who was a freshman, comes walking in late, and I just try to hide from the incoming tirade. Sure enough, the coach yells at him to get out of the room. However, the coach wants to know why he was late before he gets kicked out of the meeting. In the softest, most straightforward response, he says, "There was a train." A second of silence followed by everyone bursting with laughter, including all of the coaches. The meeting went well after that.
5:27 Actually, the word is spelled "coiffure," and it's derived from french. The word in french is just the translation of haircut. The more you know!
Source: I am a native French speaker.
From France, or...?
@judehylton466 From Canada, actually. Maybe I phrased it wrong, but what I was trying to say was that my first language is French.
@@xeldrine66 Ohhhh. Was wonderin' if that was such.
All of these were hilarious - i was laughing like a maniac and my brother repeatedly kept turning to ask "What is wrong with you?" "Have you gone crazy?" "That's it, you're mental" or some variation of that
Imma show him the vid and comments and hes gonna start too
Story:
Student - in 2nd grade, my best friend was really late. It was recess, school halfway done, and my friend just walked in with her backpack, dropped it on the ground, and went over to the swings. Naturally, everyone was confused, and we asked why she was late. She stopped and said "My microwave blew up."
Literally. Anyone that accuses someone else of an arrestable offense or felony just to "get one up on them" should have to sit out the term for said felony/crime.
My husbands friend was a probationary policemen in West London, UK in the early eighties and we were in a college doing same course. We were both around 19. He was slightly late and came in looking shellshocked quite frankly. He had just come from helping at the aftermath of a car accident involving a deceased child. We are still friends decades after but i still remember that excuse.
My friends dad told me a story about his first day in college in I forget what class, the professor “was 30 minutes late” then someone said, “What a dead beat professor who doesn’t even show up on the first day of class, let’s leave” no one left, 2 minutes later he stands up and starts teaching like nothing happened. He was the best teacher he ever had
Feb 27, 2023, was about to leave for work, had a weird wave of dissociation, laid down to let it pass, woke up to paramedics surrounding me. I'd had a seizure. I missed work that day but I went to work the next day. My manager legitimately didn't expect me to show up for like three days and told me that she would've been okay with me doing that, so I took the following day off to get my legs massaged because they were sore as fuck
This is a bit different, this belongs to the "my dog ate my homework" category, but this happened to me when I was in school.
Back then, here in Finland, after a teacher gave our exams back, we had to take them home and get a parent's signature as a proof that they had seen it. We had had a math exam. I took the exam paper home and my mother signed it as usual.
I left the paper on a table for the night. In the morning, I found that one of our cats had eaten one corner of the paper - the corner where the signature was. My mother had already left for work or something, so then I had to go to school and tell the teacher that I don't have the signature because my cat ate it. The teacher only laughed though and said that I can bring it later. She was also amused that that kind of thing can actually happen.
So in my senior year of high school I had to have minor heart surgery (not cut open or anything). Surgery was on a Friday, so I rested that weekend. I should probably mention I am a certified workaholic so this wasn’t a shock to anyone, but that Monday I showed up on time cause math was my first class (which I suck at) and in my second class I had a test. Now, me and the teacher for my second class were close and he knew about my surgery, his face when I came into class (looking like someone who had just had surgery) was just pure disappointment😅. I still took the test because if I didn’t I’d have to wait 2 weeks to retake it because of winter break. I did leave after that class to go rest at home. Later that week I also went to work and my managers (who also know I’m a workaholic) were so shocked and disappointed I didn’t take time off. I have gotten a little better about taking care of myself and calling off school or work when I need too😂😂
It wasn't about being late, but just an excuse that turned out to be true. Was in high school and my German Shepard named Shadow had spent the morning munching on a worksheet I had left on the kitchen table the night before. I was not the type of student to show up to class without completing homework, but when the teacher asked what happened and I couldn't even muster the courage to explain it she pulled me out of the class to talk in the hallway. I assume she was worried about bullying or someone taking it from me. When I told her what happened in detail, she laughed hysterically because she knew I was telling the truth and gave me another sheet to finish and bring her by the end of the school day.
When I was in highschool one of my friends was usually late but his sister was always on time. He drove her to school so he was always just goofing off in the mornings. This particular day both were late which was strange then like 15 minutes into class we see him booking it passed the window outside. Less then a minute later he barges through the classroom door with his forehead bleeding and yells "Got into an acccident and rolled my car!" The teacher told him to get checked out by the nurse before coming back but he just yelled "NO! MY SISTERS STILL IN THE CAR!" and booked it back out of the school. Didnt see either of them until next monday and his sister showed up in crutches verifying his story. they spent the weekend in the hospital but were otherwise ok.
I was in High School. Our Band Teacher was late because he had to go to his son's school...and explain how their dog ate his son's homework....he brought in the bag that his son's shredded and slobber infested remains of his homework was in to show that yes, the dog really did eat his son's homework and that is why he was late to his own class.
"The teacher gave an audible gas." 💀
I had a student who came in late and told me he and his whole family had been mugged outside their house on the last day of school… his mom was a teacher at the school, and I didn’t believe him. Turns out, 100% true. They stole all the chrome books and everything they were supposed to turn in that day.
Kindergarten teacher here. A pupil of mine rushed in 30 mins late, pretty aggressive, slamming the door. When I was abou to ask, why he was late, he screamed „My dad fucked up!“ and resumed to sit down. He was one of the pupils, who is too late pretty frequently, so I didn’t believe him. When I asked the father after school, he said, that he hit a person with his car and had to wait for the ambulance. It was the father’s fault. I still don’t know, why he has been so aggressive. Could have just told me later. Well, that’s a story.
Edit: grammar mistake
I was the student in this case:
As I was a highschool technician (a group selected among students, to handle the sound and lighting equipment during special programs) I was asked by a teacher who taugh me in primary school (both were technically in the same building) to help with the equipment for a program of her class. She'll handle whatever blowback from me missing a few classes. Since this happened multiple times in a row at the same period (for multiple weeks) my literature teacher was first skeptical, but after talking wth that primary school teacher perfectly fine with it. After this there was another time when I missed that class by accident (I had a free period before, and didn't check the time to get back to class on time) she didn'teven ask for a reason, and just assumed I was doing technician stuff again. That said, I had a stellar record of being present at just about every class, barely missing any ever for getting sick and such. So I guess it all helped make said literature teacher accept/believe that when I'm not there, there's a damn good reason forme to not be there.
Another nice fun fact, as a school technician, we had just about free reign when it came to how we used the school's sound / lighting equipment. I was mostly a sound guy, who barely dabbled with the lights, but I knew how to work those too. However, another school technician guy from our year, who was mostly about the lighting equipment, put together a freakin' amazing lightshow for a special program in our school. After that, it was getting common from teachers to ask for 2 technicians at once for their events, including him, and one of the sound guys (usually either me, or another guy who was 1 year above me). We also took part in teaching the younger technicians how to do stuff properly.
TLDR: Having a "role" in the school that teachers accept an appreciate can be a really good excuse, and after a teacher knows it and hears it a few times, they might even assume that was the reason for tardiness even when it wasn't the case.
Edit: there were also occassions where the subway / tram broke down right under me (separate occassions) causing a massive delay (an hour or so for the subway,about 45 minutes for the tram)
Yeah, the Secret Service investigates counterfeit cases because their official department is Treasury- bodyguarding is technically a side-gig.
oddly enough protecting people is only the second highest priority thing the secret service does, the first is preventing and countering counterfeit currency.
A co-worker of mine was late for work because the car in front of them stopped. Then, that driver got out of the car and jumped off the bridge. It was very traumatizing for my co-worker.
This isn't me being late, but rather an excuse about missing homework, but I think it's still worth sharing.
"My Chinchilla ate my homework." My pet chinchilla had gotten out of their cage shortly after I'd finished my homework. The packet was sitting on the dining table, which happened to be right in front of the chinchilla's cage door. Next day, teacher doesn't believe me because I can't stop laughing, so I pull out the tattered remnants of the homework packet, which has been reduced to a staple holding together two thin strips of torn up paper, with just enough printed text and pencil marks left to convince her that it was, in fact, my homework that I had filled out before it was eaten.
Unrelated, I know, but whoever designed that parkour map in the background at 7:59 is a freaking GENIUS! That madman made WALLRUNNING IN _TRULY_ VANILLA MINECRAFT-NOT EVEN COMMANDS ARE USED!!! Just fences with ladders below! Couldn’t be simpler, I know, but I legit didn’t even know that trick was a thing until now! Also, that 3D glass maze earlier in the video was pretty epic, too!
thank you for not being an AI its great to hear a real voice. I enjoyed the vid btw
Fr :)
16:13 I mean, I was once accidentally shoved into the corner of our bleachers in gym class, the corner hitting me directly in the center of my forehead. But it wasn't that bad, it hurt a bit right during the impact but nothing after that. Then about 2-5 minutes later the gym teacher called me over and told me to go to the nurse's office. I was a bit confused but "out-of-shape child" me didn't want to turn down getting out of gym class for free. So I calmly walked through the halls and went straight to the office looking for the nurse and it wasn't until I walked in and she put something white on my forehead and pulled back something red that I realized I was bleeding. No body told me, I had no idea. It was only then when I finally looked down at my shirt and noticed the streaks of blood that were already run down it. So yeah, even when you are the one bleeding it can be very easy to not notice that you are covered in blood. Bonus, I got out of the rest of gym class that day!
“How do you not know you’re covered in blood?” Shock… the answer is shock …
9:01 bro just casually told everyone he was dying
Not a student, but a teacher.
He showed up to class 20 minutes late and when he does arrive, dude is drenched in sweat. Like actually drenched. Large pitstains, sweat still dripped down his face, large sweat stain on his back and is completely out of breath. He claimed he was late because he was chased by some people who intended to do him harm in the countryside and he had to ride as hard as he could (he came to school by bicycle) for a long time before he finally reached a safe spot and rather than warning the police or at least telling the principal or something, he just went straight to the class he was supposed to teach. He looked and smelled so bad, they sent him back home and told him to take the rest of the day off. At first, his class didn't wanna believe him and just assumed he lived under disgusting circumstances. Even the school board had a hard time believing his story and pulled much of it into question. Turned out to be true, though. Police caught the guys that were harassing him later that day and they admitted to the harassment as well as some other crimes they had committed, along with some they were still planning to commit. Obviously, no one ever apologized to him for not believing his story.
Looking back on it, there was actually a fair bit of crime in my neighbourhood. Nothing that ever affected me personally, but I do have quite a few stories of my childhood and teenage years that involve local crimes. I don't live anywhere near there anymore, but it's weird to think about all this time later. Nothing criminal ever happened to me or even anyone I know, so either I got lucky or it's maybe not as bad as I think it was.
My PSE teacher was like quite late, theres this thing called 'Toasty Tuseday' at a church like 5 minutes down the road from the school that all students who have money can go to. A lot of peoe go as you can get a toasty, drink and cookie for a £1 ! I got to school one day (i was always early to get some alone time to myself before class.) I was talking to new friends of mine then we talked about money for toasty tuseday then. I realized. I had forgotten my purse at my house. I didnt bring lunch and i dont eat much at breakfast and i useally forget my snack so i was like. ''Oh (bleep)'' i text my mum then call her. Not knowing what to do. Then we agree i run or get a bus quickly back home and my mum meets me at my bus stop to give me my purse. I got back home like 2 minutes later as a bus was due as soon as i got to the bus stop. But due to traffic my bus to get back to school was 20 or more minues late. As soon as someone let me in my building. Guess who just ran out their office as soon as i walked into the building to head to my class? My teacher. This dude was 20 or more minutes late have no clue why but i didnt get marked late! So i was lucky ! 😂
In 7th grade some random kid whos usually bullied a lot for being weird came to our class late one day with blood all over his nose and shirt and shorts and when the teacher asked him about he just said: "its nothing im fine" and it turns out he was assaulted by a highschooler for insultjng his mom.
Roommate died infront of me. I still came to work the next day.
I always showed up to school, even the same day I found out my parents were divorcing, the first day of school after one of y favorite teachers died, when my best friend crushed my heart, when I was unable to speak and so sick I wanted to die (I was sick every other week and sat alone on a couch with a mask in the corner), when I found out my grandpa had dementia and was forgetting me...oh and by the way this was all in the same month and that's not even close to everything that happened in April 2023. I ended up graduating in June of that year, too. And Honors.
German here. I had to take a tram every morning to get to High School in the neighboring city. I always had to swap lines once. On one day I was waiting for the other tram I needed to swap to, seeing a ton of people leaving it on my stop. I didn't think of it as there was a job center in the area and it was during rush hour.
Turned out that the driver told the passengers via the speakers before they arrived at the station, that this line would drive in the direction I was coming from, because a severe accident blocked the street ahead. As I had no idea I stepped in and only realized when the tram was turning the wrong direction. I left at the next stop running to another station to maby still catch the bus, but guess what: the bus was 30min late and would not arrive on time (it was on the digital time table).
So I decided to walk "the short distance" to school. I absolutely underestimated that distance which turned out to be a bit more than 3km. On the way I collected a handful of my classmates still waiting at stops without a digital timetable. After 45min we finally arrived at our classroom. One minute before the teacher arrived.
She only asked why we were so out of breath and after we told her she just said that she appreciated that we tried to be on time.
A story of my roommate and also a classmate at colleage from my point of view. We went to the same class where he put down his bag and said he will have to go and talk a bit with one teacher and so he went there. Now it was normal for both of us to work out and we did not like stairs that much, little less when you have to go to 5th floor, so naturally we were taking elevators quite frequently. The class started and there was no sign of him, which was weird because I know him well and he had no reason to be late. After 20 minutes he came by, apologizing that he got stuck in the elevator.
Witnessing a car accident and helping isn’t that rare or unbelievable, why wouldn’t the teacher believe that?
Here is mine: So, I enter school a whole ass hour late. The teacher says "Your late" I look at her dead in the eyes and say "I was helping a friend that was in the hospital" that was the truth although by teacher didn't believe me. A few hours later, the principal annouces "Mr. Johnson, come down to the office."
I'm gonna preface this by saying I live in Tokyo. I was an hour late because someone jumped in front of the train ahead of mine. It was stop and go. I called work to let them know and they knew already. How you might ask. It was at the station across the street from where i work.
Another time I was 3 hours late because there was a huge earthquake the night before. The metro was fine but the JR lines were all fucked.
Another time I was half way to work and some ass (honestly I don't know if he were drunk or genuinely sick) vomited down my right leg. Had to turn around and go home to change.
Highschool bus slid off the road into ditch and flipped on the door side so we had to break the windows to get out,only scrapes ,cuts and bruises no serious injury yet we still had to go to school.
Our usual bus route got swept away by heavy rain,the damn storm sheared of part of the hill where road is located,we had to go around and lost about 1.5 hour.when asked why late we told road went missing.
They didnt believe us until someone showed them.road was fixed very quickly coz its the main one entering the town and few side roads are not equipped for huge traffic
One of my daughters has a condition called "Lethargy" - diagnosed when she was in the ICU down in Brenner's Hospital for other things. Story 10 really reminds me of her.
0:15 that right there sounds like fucking heaven
Once, in fifth grade, it was just a normal day. I was eating breakfast, and then my sisters were chasing each other for a bit. However, while I was getting dressed, we all heard a scream. We have a gas powered oven, so it turned out my sister had played with the fire and forgot to turn off the stove, so we were exposed to high amounts of gas for 30 minutes. We had to call in the school, and I wonder how it felt hearing: "Oh, there was a gas leak in our home."
This reminded me of a kid in my senior class in high school that rolled his truck 3 times (was uninjured) and still came to school and wasn't late. Did i mention he also had an ankle monitor on? He was on probation
This reminds me of the time in elementary school where I was 3 hours late. My parents are divorced and my mom lived almost an hour from where I went to school. One day in December we were driving to school and it started snowing. Within 10 minutes the snow was thick enough that we could barely see 10 feet in front of the hood. We were going very slow because of the weather. After another 20 minutes the snow just stopped. Traffic sped up and we thought I would only be 15-20 minutes late. Then we go stopped between exits. It turns out a semi had rolled and completely blocked the road. After two and a half hours the semi is finally moved enough for us to get by it and we were finally able to keep going
Minecraft aka the best background game for these stories
Oh boy I want to tell this one.
My family has a really good backyard that is huge and we work extremely hard to make it look beautiful. My job is to mow the lawn which to put this into perspective takes me 2 hours to complete on a riding lawn mower.
Because of its size and the work we put behind it we usually have at least a dozen or so people come to us every year to ask us if it would be ok to use our yard for their wedding reception and being the kind people my parents are they usually don’t turn anyone down. However one of them happens to be a reception that occurred on a Wednesday a few weeks before my final exams, and I usually mow the lawn on Saturday. As a result my parents asked if I could mow it on Wednesday before they set up.
I didn’t have to mow the whole lawn but I knew it would take about 30 minutes, and because I knew I couldn’t do it after school I decided to do it during lunch. So I drove home and mowed the area they needed, but on my way back I accidentally ran over a corner of an old rug that someone left out. Because of that I spent an extra ten or so minutes getting it out, which of course meant that I was late for my class.
I rushed in about 5 minutes late to my teacher that was confused why I had grass on my clothes and my arms had grass stains on them. After class I went up to talk to him and when I told him that I was late because I was mowing a lawn for a wedding reception.
Weather it was because I was a good student, that I was covered with grass, or because he knew me well enough to know that I was an honest person he simply chuckled before answering “well that’s the first time I’ve heard that one.”
This was years ago and to my knowledge he didn’t dock me any points. Either way it’s awesome talking about it.
Story 3 needs a movie
Well, I'm no teacher however this one story stands out as one of the funniest from high school. So during my final 3 1/2 years of high school I lived with my dad. 99% of the time I was on time to class and if I was late or absent or whatever I always had a valid excuse and usually it was something that we would do or I was sick or whatever. However there was one day in my sophomore year of high school (I can't really remember the month but I think it was late second quarter or early 3rd quarter) anyway so I was standing outside at 7:00am waiting for the bus to take me to school and we had a big morning as we were being given a very important presentation first period at 8:00am. So while I was standing outside my bus just drove right by my house! I was literally standing there looking at the bus, maybe waving at it but I can't remember for certain and it just drove right by. Much later in the day when it was time to go home my driver told me that they came back to my house and honked the horn to get me to come outside because she realized their mistake. I did not hear the horn and just thought it was a trash truck. Anyway I arrived to the school about 10-15 minutes late and when the office staff heard my story they looked at me with faces of disbelief. Take that with a grain of sault though because all of this happened some 3 years ago in 2021. Regardless I ended up getting an excused late slip and after arriving to class late I just went about my day as normal and I finished off that school year with flying colors eagerly awaiting the arrival of junior year which is another story for another time as I could write an entire essay about my junior year of high school. actually, if this comment gets enough likes I'll tell my junior year story. Anyway that is one of the very few times that I was ever late to class in high school. I hope you enjoyed and find it funny as I do now. lol XD
Hey there, I just wanted to say that you seem like a really fun and enthusiastic person. I was feeling kinda down today, but somehow after reading your comment I feel literally energized! Thank you so much for sharing, and yes that does sound hilarious! 😆😄 Thank you again
@@ManekaAgarwal you are welcome Maneka. You have a good day and may the force be with you.
I was one of the kids at my school who had to drive, and there were train tracks in between us and the school. Unfortunately, the time the train would go by often coincided with the time we were driving to school and so I was late often. They always just gave out a tardy anyways. I only didn’t get one once- because the teacher was also late because of the train. Thankfully, after that the school sent a notice and the train people or whatever changed the time it came through to the afternoon.
I actually have 2:
1. Near the end of the school year my junior year, my high school band was performing at all the elementary schools in the district (6 in 2 days). Some schools were anywhere between 20 minutes to up to 45 minutes away from the high school, and the band had to give excused absences. Well, one time we had stopped for lunch at a McDonald’s, and the bus wouldn’t start initially. I almost missed all of my other classes. My band teacher had to explain that to the other teachers who were less than enthused.
2. When going to tech school for Travel/Tourism, my car ran out of fuel on the way to class (where my car stalled out was still a good 20 miles away from school). I called ahead to let my one instructor know that I was coming, but I would be late cause I would be walking to school. I hadn’t eaten anything at that point, so about 4 miles in, I stopped at a bench in front of a motel. Another 10 miles later, I stopped at a McDonald’s and not only grabbed an order of French fries, but used the bathroom. By the time I got to the school, I was waiting for the final minutes of the 3rd of 5 classes. At this time, my second instructor was in, and he wondered why I was late. I told him I had called the other instructor to let them know my car died and I wasn’t able to have anyone drive me to class, so I had to walk there. My classmates were shocked and wondered why I didn’t call off. I didn’t want to get my parents angry at me for skipping class, plus by me showing up, that got me to pass for graduation.
im laughing so hard cause the Minecraft dude couldn't figure how to get out of the maze LOL
I was recently late to my art class due to the fact that my neighbors cow had a lawn mower bag stuck on its head.
Am i safe? This is an actual human, isn’t it? Not some AI generated bot farm, i’m so tired
from what I can tell, this channel is run by actual humans. AI voices are becoming harder to pick out, but this one sounds real to me
This is real
"Teachers can be so untrusting."
So can cops.
I wonder why that is.
him: When the teacher asked what he was doing, the late student said that his country was under attack.
Also him right after he said the sentence: When the teacher asked what he was doing, the late student said that his country was under attack.
Bro actually repeated himself and thought he was slick
Story 2 man, there’s just a lot to unpack
I was late for school, because of a train. The office staff says that wasn't excusable. I acted like what, but didn't out up a fight, because it was just a tardy slip warning, but i saw on their tardy journal that some students overslept and that was excusable. So they expect me and my parents to have the train schedule, but a student who's too lazy to wake up is excused? Had my grandfather been alive he would have tore them a new ass. One time my brother missed the bus and walked over a mile home and my grandpa was like what happened. He told them and the office staff told him to use the payphone and he couldn't use the office phone. He contacted the school the next day and told him that he is not giving my brother extra money for the payphone especially for those kind of situations. He said he should be able to use the office phone and if they have a problem with that he's going to the board of education. Soon after the office phone was allowed in emergency situation such as needing a ride home.
I have 2, both where I'm part of the reason why said student was late.
First one (not chronological, just believably) was my freshman year of high school, I had PE first period. My teacher was a real stickler and said to be on time, we had to be dressed in our uniforms and up at the track when class started (at 7:30 in the morning). Well, because of traffic, at 7:20, I was still in my mom's car on the opposite side of campus (which was the size of a small college/uni campus). I just threw open the car door and sprinted to the locker room to get changed (I normally get to school with enough time to hang out with friends, and no way was I doing that in our PE uniform, which I kept in my PE locker). I change as fast as I can, and after retying my shoes, jumped up off the benches, pulling a muscle in my groin. I was one of only 2 students in there, and the other girl heard my gasp of pain. She came over to me keeled over in pain, and had to drag me to the nurse's office (thankfully just above the locker rooms). She ran ahead to get to class while the nurse had to call one of my parents to confirm that yes, I could take ibuprofen for the pain. After, I got a note and limped over to the weight room where my class was for that unit. Teacher clearly wasn't pleased but had no choice because I was still clearly in pain and had a note. Sadly, her policy for missed classes (which apparently this counted for some reason, might be because the teacher hated me) was that I had to make it up by attending another of her classes before my next class period, which was two days after this. My only free period was literally an hour after my regular class period finished. Was probably not the smartest move, but the pain meds had kicked in enough I could at least do an upper body day of weights.
Second one (again, not chronological) was when I was like 4. My dad was in engineering school at the time while my mom was at work as an ObGyn. Dad got a call from my day care. Turns out the building had been run over by a truck had been run over by a truck (3 injured, no one dead). Dad had to scramble to get my brother and I to my uncle's place so my aunt could watch us for a few hours because Dad had an exam that day. Aunt clearly didn't believe him but agreed. Dad showed up to class and the exam had already started. Prof wasn't about to let it slide (despite the fact my dad is a stickler for punctuality and would preferably be 10-15 mins early for classes) until another student chimed in that he had heard a story about it on the radio that morning (this was 2000, no one could really check online, though there's actually an article by the Denver Post about this incident still up today). Prof agreed to let Dad just take the test with no more issues. To this day, people still don't believe me when I say my day care was once run over by a truck.
When I was in uni, one of my professors actually said one time "The only reason why I wouldn't allow you to turn in a paper is if you are in a hearst or an ambulance... And then he tells of one story where one of his students, who was also a mom had to rush her kid to school cause he missed his bus, then she went to rush back to her car, slipped on a patch of ice, and broke her leg in front of the school, calling the professor mid-class and told him that she was in an ambulance, and she would try to bring in her paper that was in the car in her son's school parking lot." How he knew she was in an ambulance? He heard all the sirens and ambulance sounds in the background. He said that the paper was worth a good portion of the grade, and he did not like tardy papers. However, he told her "Don't rush it, bring it in when you can."
10:56 the guy didn't realise that a country being attacked is like ten 9/11's for them
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