Monday monday

Unlike the Mamas and Papas song, Monday morning isn't all I hoped it would be. My daughter was ill enough for me to tell her that she wasn't going to school so my son decided that he was going to stage a coughing fit and, with half-lidded eyes, tried to convince me that he was too ill to go to school today. When that didn't succeed he decided that laying in the doorway so that I'd have to step over him would convince me of his suffering. All he needed was a chalk outline and some police tape across the door.

As gloomy Monday mornings are something that, at one time or another, you don't want to start the working week; what's the worst excuse you've thought up, that actually worked, to skive off work?