As a teacher in the local high school, I had once received a note from a boy in my 10th grade homeroom. It read: Please excuse John X. from school this afternoon, he has an appointment with his gynecologist. Mrs. X. (John’s mother)
Little Johnny was late again, teacher ask why? Little Johnny said: “It was a sign down the road.” Teacher ask: “What has a sign got to do with it?” Little Johnny replied: “It said, school ahead go slow.”
I used this as an excuse when I didn’t come to school for 24 days- “I was walking past the stairs and this really fat girl rolled down them and hit me. I broke my 2 rigs, my legs, and fractured my wrist.” The teacher laughed and gave me an A.
Please excuse my sister/daughter from school. We told her that her mother is her grandma, her sister is her mother and daddy is still daddy this weekend and she hasn’t come out of the bedroom since.

