Real Homework Excuses I Have Heard
83EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING OR SUBMITTING HOMEWORK
Some of these I have heard from GED and college prep students. Others came to me through emails. Some I just made up and cannot use, so perhaps I can rent them out.
For the Teachers...
- I just saw it on the New York Times Bestsellers List, so that means someone stole it.
- I had better things to do.
- I didn't do it because I didn't want to add to my teacher's heavy workload.
- My mom's whooping cough vaccination wore off and we had to go to the hospital.
- I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
- I hired a paper writing company and they did it in Chinese.
- I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.
- I needed a mental health day.
- I made a paper plane out of it and it got hijacked.
- My Dad accidentally put it in his briefcase and took it to work.
- I put it in the safe, but lost the combination.
- I have the mathematical proof, but there isn't room to write it in the margin.
- I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy
- I left it at Mom's house when she took me back to Dad's house.
- I loaned it to a friend, but he moved away.
- My printer broke and my disk is corrupted. Unfortunately my computer crashed this morning as well.
- I left it in my shirt and my mother put the shirt in the wash.
- My internet access was down (for emailed assignments).
- A sudden wind blew it out of my hand and I never saw it again.
- I was kidnapped by terrorists and they only just let me go, so I didn't have time to do it.
- Another student fell in a lake, and I jumped in to rescue him but unfortunately my homework drowned.
New Additions
- It was in my back pocket and a pickpocket stole it.
- I left it in a hymn book in the choir loft, having used it to mark my solo.
- I left it in the back of the truck when we went deer hunting.
- My flash drive exploded..
- I dropped it in the toilet accidentally nd it got flushed.
- I gave it to a homeless man to line his hat with.
- I fell asleep tring to do it and I just woke up 10 minutes ago and was nearly late for school
- My notebook got stolen in the school cafeteria and it had all my work in it.
Here's a gem! -
- I can't always spell correctly, because I have a neurological deficit. hahaha
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I laughed out loud, and it was a bit nostalgic, too. I have actually said some of the things here! Do you remember the scifi excuse in which the homework, a science experiment, eats the dog?
lol..I like the one about dividing by zero. Nice hub.
Whatever happened to "my dog ate it". funny thing is that actually happened at my house a couple of weeks ago. Great fun. You do have some duplicates in there.
Patty! Very funny stuff. I loved it.
Great HUB
regards Zsuzsy
The key to making excuses is that you need to base them on truth.
These were great to read! See what I have to look forward to as a teacher?
Very good. I especially prefer the honest of the one, "I had better things to do." My favorite from my students (I also teach for a local college, and I teach a class in a prison), "We were in lockdown."
my dog didn't eat it miss, but he thought it was a great place to lift his leg.....jimmy
I got caught in a snowstorm and I had to burn it to make a fire.
I like few of dose excuses (It was in my back pocket and a pickpocket stole it.)
and (I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.) Dose are my fevered ones but I like them all lol
These are SO funny!!
I used to always do my homework, guess I'm a bit of a goody-goody. :-/
Try www.stevesexams.com to make homework easier.
I love you.
Love the excuse!
Hahaha I like that with Garfield :D
funny stuff
I'm a newcomer to Hubpages, so excuse my late comment on this article. It was hilarious and I may refer to it in my blog, which is about education. Great fun to read and great excuses to use!
lol heres one i heard a while ago::
i sneezed on it so by order of health regulations they destroyed it
wow!! its very funny
lol,
here is an excuse i didnt do my history homework because i dont believe in dwelling on the past
i love all of your coments, thanks por posting them :D
i have been known to use this little gem " sorry my sister says im allergic to homework"
keep them coming patty , much love x 0 x
Good one Daniel. i literally laughed out loud when i read this. I used this one yesterday to also get out of my Russian Homework. my lecturer advised me to use benedril, which i found hilarious. In Britain people are not as gullable in the USofA, buti love americans anyway. keep writing x
ok well my teach gave me an assignement to write about the best lost homewrok excuse ever HELP ME!
these excuses are crap any no teacher would believe them unless their really really stupid or they dont listen to you
hahahaha so creative :D
i acualy used this and my teacher believed me! thank you lord
umm well i wasnt her on monday to get it i was to busy on tuesday to do it and then i whet to do it on wednesday and i forgot to bring it home and well thursday its due. I did it on my teacher and it worked!!!
hmm very funny
HA HA HA THOSE ARE GOOD!!!
Goes to prove how ingenious we can be when it comes to inventing excuses. Love all your examples.
USEING THESE AR GUNNA BE FUN
lol these are funny
I have one too which I actually used and worked:
The cat threw up on it! ^-^
haha i took these pills and ate them
hi excuses worked
OMG.!=] forealz i have to come up with some more.!
lol naw jk people to let u no i always i mean ALWAYS do my &*%#@ homework.!
[[NOT]]
I've got a good one...
My mum just loves my homework so she used it as an ornamant for our living room!
Mann their good and I tried some on different teachers (so i wouldnt be found out... soon) and it work i mean like OMG but what happened to the dog ate it (i sed that once but unforantantly the teacher know im alleric to dogs :( ) Thx Love You x
Well - sometimes - the dog really DOES eat the homework, and sometimes it really DOES get flushed. :-)
Funny hub.
i got a good one
student:teacher would you punish me for something i didnt do?
teacher:of course not
:good because i didnt do my homeowork hahhaha
I actually think I've used the first one. My teacher was not impressed.
LOL! I USED SOME OF THEM AND GOT A DETENTION.
BUT SOME WORKED.
HERE'S ONE I MADE UP- I NOT SURE IT VERY GOOD-
MY OLDER BROTHER TRIED TO HELP ME BUT PUT THE WRONG ANSWERS
IN ON PURPOSE, BUT IT WAS IN PEN SO I COULDN'T RUB IT OUT.
MY MUM TRIED TO TIP-EX IT, BUT IT HAD DRIED UP.
I once threw up on my textbook,and had to go home.Does that count?
How about this for an excuse-
I heard that eating a good breakfest would help me with my attention span and when I got school ,my stomach ,didn't agree with me!
Here are some..."I lost my laptop miss." And:"Some Russian terrorists hacked into my dads computer and stole my homework." And:"My dog peed on it, and it blew up!"
I actually got a true one about terrorists at the beginning of this term. I teach history and we're studying the Russian Revolution; anyway I had them writing papers on the pros and cons of the ideals of communism as a "fun" project over Christmas. One girl went to America for the whole holiday and took her work with her. It was confiscated at immigration.
Great fun!... I laughed out loud reading this, Patty! I bet lots of teachers have had to listen to kids of divorced parents using the "I left it at my mum's house/dad's house" excuse. I know my two daughters used it as an excuse and also as truth during their schooldays!
here one its not funny but it works
I have done my home work i swear but i left it at home
or
i was walking to school but it was raining so much my bag got soak so my homework is unreadable
You said it should be a piece of cake, so I ate it :D
My dog ate it.
Too Funny......
My teacher ate it.
my cat attacked it and my dad/mum is trying to stick it back together as we speak!
My teacher actually feel for it!
my dog ate it and came out the other end
these r soo funny :)
they r sooooooooooooooo unreal get wiv it ! tel em u lost ur book !
these are hilarious
I was making a homework ecuse today and it was about i found some dogs brought them home they had babies and they were on my hw they went to the bathroom on it and bla bla bal
these are so funny ,what about the dog ate my homework excuse, thats a classic.
Ive actually said I left it on holiday before, and when I had done it I put China India and England stamps on it to make my excuse perfect.
LOL
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My cleaning lady got hungry and ate it
lol i loved your home work excuses i will try some out one day.....................................
i love all of these not only did it get me out of trouble it helped with my homework on how many good excuses could u think off
Haha . i have One :
Student: Miss Can you get in trouble for things you haven't done.
teacher; no
student: good miss because i havent done my homework .
Haha :) x
well i had to go to the restroom and i diddnt have alot of time so it took it in the with me and i accidentaly whiped my but with it
i think theese are soo funny im writing um dwn and gunna try um tomoz wen i go skool i really wannah see what the teachers faces look like
Hahaha Funny Stuff , The Classic One Is My Dog Ate It ;-))
Come into class with a sad,poutty,or blank face (maybe a puppy dog face)only if yhur a pro at that..do not wait for her/him to ask for yhur homework go up to him/her and tell them yhu went to the hospital to see yhur aunt________.IF he/her asks wut happened say i dont wanna tlk about it..
PS. WORKED FOR MEH YHU TRY IT LOL.. :) ORIGIANALLY FRUMM ME :}
lol, well my friend said that his dog ate his USB which had all his assignments on it in class we all laughed and the teacher didnt believe him. lolhaha
I've got one.
"I accidentally my homework."
i ate it
lol, this is a true story-
TEACHER-where's your homework?
STUDENT-i didn't do it
TEACHER-why not?
STUDENT-well. . .homework IS work. . .right?
TEACHER-yes, of course
STUDENT-than it's illegal
TEACHER-what?! how?
STUDENT-Child Labor Laws
'I left it on my desk and my mum thought it was a rough and scrunched it up and then she had to iron it out again after i told her, but i was using a heat sensitive pen so it got erased' :)
cute!
these r soooo funny
You guys are hilarious...
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL i love them they are sooo funny !!:D
One that TRULY happened to my friend (he showed me the result) was this:
'My gran accidentally made it into a paper mache heron.'
Needless to say, both myself and the teacher who had to hear this excuse were in stitches.
how about " I had to visit my sick gran "
Just tell the truth :)
-we have a lot of other work to do and many exams to revise for. I'll get it to you as soon as possible!
or classic; its at my dads/moms house. :)
There was a thunderstorm so I turned off my computer, that's why my report wasn't finished. If you want to blaim anyone, take it up with Mother Nature!
just learn how to do homework u handicapz
Ok i got 1
Teacher~ where is your homework
Student~i didnt do it
Teacher~ why not??
student ~ well homework is a work.
Teacher~ yes........
student~ i will do it if... i get payed , cuz my dad gets payed for his work......
im da man at homework i own u all but sams cooler
Do we have any usable excuses?! Com'on guys I'm getting in trouble here!!!
liar liar pants on fire
well, this worked...
we had to submit our algebra notebooks, and obviously mine was incomplete so i didn't, and the next day i got a friend of mine to write a note saying that my dad recycled it accidentally, and then i forged my moms signature... its wrong and that was last year in 9th grade, and very risky business, but if u want some serious excuses, could be one :)
BTW, if ur teachers call up at home, dont try this, and if ur teachers are the kind that believe in reasonable excuses, u dont need to forge ur parents' sign, but the sign makes them believe its not an excuse, its reality... it could also in some cases provoke the teachers to call ur parents...
ohh i got 1....
teacher-where is your homework
student-i didnt get it in
teacher-why???
student- you said its HOMEWORK right??
teacher- yess
student- well i didnt do it at home dats why i didnt get it in cozz i thought ill get in to trouble!!!!!
LOL
lol thats so funny
I have a cat that likes eating paper and cardboard and just spits it out afterwards. My CAT nibbled it at the edges.
these are really good excuses next time I want to miss out on Hw I ll definately use the divide by zero one
annon is dat really funny coz i just made it up
LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL
i like the child laws one lol
hey stop using all my homework excuses u so stoe them from me :(
heres one i snezzed on it and i burned it because i do't want any one cloning me
My kids homework is to make up a crazy excuse for not doing your homework. Sometimes I miss school.
i have one: my mum thought it was rubbish so she threw it in the bin
i like it
Me: Can I get in trouble for something I didn't do?
Teacher: No, why?
Me: Okay cool, cause I didn't do my homework.
Doesn't always work but it's fun to see their reaction :)
lol all funny ones but the funniest one aint on there how bout putting it on there
"sorry miss i was walking past the pet store and i seen a drowning gold fish. i had to save it" lol hope u like
this actually happened to someone i know
he left it in a take away and it burned down by the time he went back for it
im not joking
LMAO I liked em all, here i got one:
"I thought it was the toilet paper!!" xD
lol i know somebody who got an award for the best excuse the teacher had ever heard for not doing there homework, he told her he handed it into the wrong school, lol
Once i said " The chicken next door got loose and while trying to catch it i dropped my homework and it started eating it" They believed me. LOL
my dog actually ate my homework
if you do your home work you would not have to make up an excuse I am 11 and i do my home work
I actually got away with saying 'my dog ate my homework!' x
I left bacon on my work and my dog ate his breakfest...
Theres a boy at my school (i am in year 8) + he said sorry miss my cat opened my bag + ate my homework + planner, i am really sorry!
PWWWAHAHAHAHAHA! Dose r sum funi ones guys! I got one to! Here it is: my sister got tired of doing homwork and threw it in the fireplace! HAAAAA! Classic!
lol lol lol lol lol!!!
i love them all they're so funny:)
When my cat was a kitten, he had a strange love for ripping and swallowing paper, and he consumed large portions of my art projects. I would bring in what was left of it, but my teacher had a hard time believing me.
My suggestion, just send your teacher a corrupt file they cant open and you've bought yourself some time!
Google this site: DeadlineXtender (this will help you create a corrupt Word/Excel/Powerpoint doc)
:)very cute!
Doing homework is against my religion
Is a good one I hav uses many times
Luv the divide by zero one
my computer wasn't working so i asked my friend to print it for me but hedidnt come to school today
i has 1 miss i had a religios experiance at the weekend where god spoke to me and said "if you ever do homework on a sunday then you shall die and go to hell because sunday is the day at rest and i couldn nt do it on saturday because i was busy making this excuse
I couldn't get my homework done the other night because I forgot my chemistry data booklet at school, but then I found one at mydogatemyhomework.ca and so I got it done and did not have to give my teacher an excuse.
IT IS SO FUNNY, ONE TIME MY BEST FRIEND SAID TO HIS TEACHER THAT WHEN HE WAS HALF WAY THROUGH HIS HOMEWORK HIS COMPUTER GOT BIRED!!!!!
student- miss,will i get in trouble for someting i didnt do
miss-no of course not
student-oh,pheww cuz i didnt do my homework
Sorry miss but i was tutoring my brother when i just finished my homework but just as i was going to laminate it lightning struck and nothing was destroyed but my school books, bag, uniform, and others. you can even check.....but dont look in my backyard cause my brothers burning my things =]
blablablablabllabla
Actually, If live in a place out in the middle of nowhere, The "I didn't have internet access" one is possible, in fact, It happened to me when I was a child living out in the country.
Lol so funny
One of them is actually true though no joke:
My Dad accidentally put it in his briefcase and took it to work.
LOL I was so freaked when it was on here.
Might just use one of these excuses for tomorrow's art class... ='D
here i got two:
My brother and i had a fight and heipped up my homework, its so trajic i worked on it for hours miss honest
and
I have a cat that likes eating paper ad cardboard and just spits it out sfterwards, well my cat quite enjoys the taste of inky paper....
funny excuses guys i hope my teacher beleives these ones!
(To be used when writing a formal letter for English class.) My maid thought it was junk mail so she threw it in the recycle bin and I only realized two minutes ago.
LOL! That was so amazingly funny, I think I need the loo! That's rare, by the way. 8)
boy: u cant tell me off for not doing anything..
teacher: no i cant unfortuatly
boy: well i havnt done my homework
those are really funny excuses!! i've got one
teacher: where is ur homework?
student: well the way i see it... (long silence. student looks at teacher expectantly)
teacher: yes?
student: thats the way i see it!
teacher: the way you see what?
student: this is exactly my point! if you can't understand what I'm saying then how is i possible you could understand my homework? thats why i didn't bother bringing it in!!
a boy in my class used this and the teacher just walked away looking confused. but 5 min later she gave him a detention. so... maybe dont use it :(
just blame the teacher....
teacher: were is ure home work
boy: i gave it to you before i left school yesterday
i used it as toilet paper by accident
My Sister Ate It Cause there was no food
i went with the dog ate my homework excuse......
would have got away with it if i had a dog...
me: my do ate it
teacher: oh, do you have a dog
me: no...
teacher: i see, so let me guess your imaginary dog at your imaginary homework....
me: yes, so is that a detention
teacher: no
me: really
teacher: no, detention Wednesday lunchtime
me: ok
I don't believe in working on the sabbath -_-
Hahahaha very funny excuses!! LOL!
Great one1
Stolen by the homework thief and he held it for ransom.
I couldn't do my homework because my religion won't allow it. . . . . Man Im known to capitulate all the time. It's one of the reasons my teachers are so belligerent towards me. I think there just being pedantic tho. I may have been a little blasé about me not trying hard enough.
some of the work not the divide by zero one though.... >:[
Got a new one-- My sister flushed it down the toilet
Aliens took it when I was sleeping
i was sleeping and you snuck it out of my room
Haha. very funny :)
this is so hilarious also try i forgot it in the trash can...
Lol a good one is I am a schizophrenic and 1 of my personalities burned it because he is a pyromaniac
I lost my science WorkBook, i was trying to find one online and i a came across this... LOL! But how am i gonna get a excuse...
just tell the truth it will save you trouble trust me. you may get in trouble but it wont be as bad as telling a lie.and dont make it a constant thing.
Lol the recycling one was real for me
im sooo using sme ofthem but my teachers are just gonna laugh!!!
tried to do dah ¨left it in dah briefcase one¨, and the next day was a teacher/parent meeting and mah teacher found out my dad dosent work LOL!! hahahaha
i have one
me:it started to rain yesterday where i live and i was runing through the rain without an umbrella or rain coat and i had my homework with me and it got soaked. so when i tried to dry it this morning the answers were all gone
teacher: okay go sit down
ps this really happend to me and it worked
I was busy washing my hands for tea after doing my homework. A cat suddenly ran into the house and our dog chased it and the cat jumped up on the table and knocked a cup of coffee straight onto my homework!
I knew a kid and his dog literally ate his hmwk. There was a bite mark and paw prints too
id say something like a drink spilled on it
it probbaly wud work i might try it
i lost my homework when i was fighting this kid that would not agree that u were the best teacher in the world
My son said one of these to me and I literally blew up(farted after laughing).
He later showed me this and here I am
well firssst i waz at home an looking for a pencil when my mom said w3re moving to china an IT WAS 12 HOURS LONG an we rented a house in chyna an my dog sat on muh hw an i tryed to get it when it ripped an so we had to go to the store but couldnt g\find any so we asked the owner he didnt speak english so we went back home an he said forget it an put it in the get rid of box an set it outside just when a hobo got it an sold it to a guy for a dollar and the guy told the taxi driver to go to canada -__- lol
Yes,it is very funny excuses !
i found a cat on a tree and fead it my homework'
ok lol there alll funny
one day i was telling my friend how to do our homework and he went 'oh stuff it' and ate my homework and swollowed it lool
but he go detention so !DONT TRY EATING UR HOMEWORK!
I got one, its untested so could someone test it for me? thx..
Kid: Miss i haven't done my homework
Teacher: Why?
Kid: I joined an anti homework protest over the weekend and they burnt my homework to show i was part of it.
Good 1/\/\ahead Why didnt u do your homework...i like to keep some info to myself.............. [:D [not very good]
we have netbooks at school and you have to share them with the person next to you and we had to download certain files from the computer to our flash drives and my partner took to long so i only got half the files and not the most imporatant wital ones that made me cry for 4 hours it is due on tuesday and not monday and today is sunday should i use one of you incrediblly awesome exscuse or not if i don't finish in time because we had a three day weekend to work on this because of veterens day.
I think i left it at my mums would be quite effective.Also you could say your water bottle leaked your homewrk got wet and did not bring it because it was drying.
I thought it was a tissue and i blew my nose with it
u guys are stupid why dont ya jus do the darn work
a girl hit me and i used it as a bandage
I got kidnapped by terrest and they ate my homework because I told them I will hit you if you go in my junk cupboard
omg i love this
hi everyone my exuse is that i tell my teacher that i got desracted easaly!!!!!!!!!
i tried the one tat said that my homework ate my dog
lol soooo funnnyy!!
Ha ha! SOme of these are funny. Voted up.
i got one:
i was sleeping and the aliens abducted ]my home work!!
(i know its not good its the best i could come up with!)
LOL,very funny excuses,unfortunately i cant use dem,ma teachers never fall for dem:( .........add me up on fb if u want,,,ma fb name is fresh-kidd neeyae
What about..
I enjoy the earth so why waste paper?
My mom was drunk again so she burned it for breakfast.
I thought i broke my arm so I went to the hospital but there was a wait so I was stuck all night finally to learn I didn't break it so.... I didn't have any time.
COOOOOOL
I searched it on google because i did not do my home work and i don't want to get m.a.s.h mentle after school help.
im a 11 year old girl and i don't know how to do my homework well i do but my friend i lint some thing to her and it was a piece of my homework.
I left my bag at my cousin's house and only got it back this morning.
another excuse could be we were to poor tp buy bedding fer my guine pig so my ma used papers that i dont need an she accidently ripped up the papers with all my homework in it
I think I got 1:
Kid:Miss, I did my homework so I can't get in trouble.
Teacher: You can if you don't give me it.
Kid: No miss I can't get in trouble, but my sister can.
Teacher: why?
Kid: coz I did it and my sister tore it and threw it on our fire in the living room.
Teacher: What r u on about?
Kid: Fine. i will tell u were my homework is but the director wont be happy.
Teacher: R u feeling okay? Do u need 2 go home?
Kid: No miss. I'm fine. I work for MI5 and they took my homework for analysis. I am wanted in 15 countries coz I made 15 mistakes out in the field.
Teacher: u r telling me u r a spy and ur fellow agents took it for analysis to make sure u r safe?
Kid: Yes miss.
Teacher: Just go sit down, I don't want to have agents bursting in here asking if I'm harrassing u.
(Everyone laughs)
I used this once and the teacher let me off coz she said she hadn't laughed that hard in ages. u could use the sister tore it up one by itself or the secret agent one. lollums :))
i love these excuses I used the one about dividing by zero [my pesonal favourite] and my teacher just laughed and said next time divide by 2! lol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Keny Luger 4 years ago
hahaha... yeah those are really funny!
Thanks.