Excuses! Excuses! Excuses! Things People Say

Everyone give them and everyone get them, excuses are like little white lies, except excuses are usually less creative.

I've been getting lots of really lame excuses lately. One advise, please, don't take me as a gullible fool when comes to electronic communication matters, having worked in the e-commerce sector for 5 years, I really don't believe the system the mother of all woes. System glitches? Come on, even I don't use that line back in my customer service days.

I think honesty is the best policy, I always try to be real when I give excuses; like, why wasn't there a single entry in FULL ECONOMY CLASS 14 DAYS RETURN in the month of November? It was because I was lazy! It is true that I had a few more things going on than usual, but procrastination was more fun, it still is!

The lamest excuse I have received so far goes something along the line of I was out of the country when I quizzed the quoter about a non-urgent but reply is required email (the quoter was already back in the country for some time too). I was almost shocked when I heard it. Er, isn't that what emailing is for? Emails usually sit patiently in the Inbox until the user hit the delete button, to top it up, it was a social utility email too!

The second most lamest excuse was I have no time. I have only two words to say - make time! In this case, I'd rather be given I-didn't-because-I-can't-be-bothered as an answer instead.

So, the moral of the story is, give it more thought when giving excuses, think about how the other party would feel. Be considerate, if you can't, then, at least be creative