That story about the guy with the safe is crazy he's literally a real life action movie protag

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 ✨

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.)

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The story about the safe being stolen needs to be made into a movie

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 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

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 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.

"School bus blew up" has the same energy as "Moon's haunted"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

"Secret Service apparently investigates couterfitting." Well, of course they do. It's one of their main jobs

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.

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.

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.

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” 😂😂😂

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.

The funeral procession story got me. I couldn't stop laughing at the "I'll be damned" comment lol

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.

My country is being attacked. Sounds like a personal tragedy to me.

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."

12:42 I had a college course where the professor said at the beginning to not miss any classes, because he's never had to give less than a C for anyone with perfect attendance and guaranteed us at least a C if we did. Now, I was active duty at the time and taking classes during lunch. I didn't miss a class, but for 2 weeks of an 8 week course I was pretty much useless in class, couldn't focus, constantly nodded out, and ended up with a grade score barely above failing. I had been on a training exercise and was completely exhausted, partly because my platoon sergeant decided since I was missing an hour and a half from the exercise to attend class, I would also miss 2 hours of sleep in addition to serve watch each night. 4 hours of sleep while in a high activity environment really takes it out of you. On the up side, I was the only one able to see my wife every day since she would bring me lunch at the school. Still my favorite teacher of all time, my low D became a C, and he apparently stopped making that guarantee in the next semester.

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 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.

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."

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.

"The teacher gave an audible gas." 💀

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

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

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-

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, the Secret Service investigates counterfeit cases because their official department is Treasury- bodyguarding is technically a side-gig.

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.

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.

thank you for not being an AI its great to hear a real voice. I enjoyed the vid btw

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.

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

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

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

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.

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😂😂

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.

“How do you not know you’re covered in blood?” Shock… the answer is shock …

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.

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.

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.

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 love how the video is meant to be about teachers but 90% of the stories are not teachers

oddly enough protecting people is only the second highest priority thing the secret service does, the first is preventing and countering counterfeit currency.

Roommate died infront of me. I still came to work the next day.

Vets are awesome!

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.

im laughing so hard cause the Minecraft dude couldn't figure how to get out of the maze LOL

9:01 bro just casually told everyone he was dying

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.

Quite the shortcut he took lmfao

Story 2 man, there’s just a lot to unpack

Minecraft aka the best background game for these stories

Story 3 needs a movie

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!

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.

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."

0:21 audible gas 💀

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)

Good content, you are not an AI content farm and you even add your own little bits in here and there. Appreciate apprecable content.

Am i safe? This is an actual human, isn’t it? Not some AI generated bot farm, i’m so tired

Witnessing a car accident and helping isn’t that rare or unbelievable, why wouldn’t the teacher believe that?

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.

The first story was the most adorable thing I've heard in a while. Awwwe. 3rd one is my 2nd favorite, it was like a movie😂 Also, I am shocked at the number of stories from my country of South Africa that make it to your channel I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you.

0:15 that right there sounds like fucking heaven

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.

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 ! 😂

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.

gosh that glass maze is hell

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.

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."

That must've been one hell of a shortcut 😂

Lol, wow this hits home!

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.

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

Am I the only one who was watching this and suddenly remembered technoblade died last year due to cancer after the story with the teacher who had cancer? Probably. Am I the only one who remembers technoblade? Again, probably.

0:40 who’s willing to bet that shortcut included getting stuck in mud? 7:42 “I KNOW YOU DON’T KNOW” is the best thing he could have possibly said lol

Once my bus caught fire. Thankfully no one was harmed. I reached school at recess

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

4:44 that change in the parkour scared me fr

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.