EXCUSES, EXCUSES. What's your favorite excuse? • "I forgot." • "I didn't have time." • "I didn't understand what you meant." Probably all of us, at one time or another, have heard - or have come up with - some pretty outlandish reasons for avoiding responsibility. And that's just what an excuse is - a flimsy reason for not doing something we should, or for doing something wrong. Excuses come in handy in all kinds of situations - failing to take care of a household chore, forgetting something we promised to do for a friend, not turning in a school assignment, explaining how something got broken.
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