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Excuses

【Excuses】An excuse has been defined as the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

【Excuses】A farmer asked his neighbor if he might borrow a rope.

“Sorry,” said the neighbor. “I’m using my rope to tie up my milk.”

“Rope can’t tie up milk.”

“I know,” replied the neighbor, “but when a man doesn’t want to do something, one reason is as good as another.”

【Excuses】All of us are tempted to make rather ridiculous excuses to others, and sometimes even to God. If we would consciously examine our excuses, we would discover how ridiculous most of them sound. Someone has collected a few choice excuses that were offered to police officers in relation to automobile accidents:

“An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.”

“I had been driving my car for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had the accident.”

“I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.”

“The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.”

“The guy was all over the road; I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.”

“Suddenly a tree was there, where no tree had been before!”