To tell you honestly there is no fun in dragging your weary ass day in and day out to the office, I mean whats the fun in being the perfect employee. Of course you would have one unhappy boss at the end of the day, but honestly bosses are human and they understand, most of the times. There are two ways you can get yourself a holiday. The normal way is to play safe and inform your boss a few days in advance, that way you would be on the right side of the boss. The other way is to play truant and take a day off without informing anybody. Now that is a dangerous thing to do so you better be ready with a good excuse the next day.

I think the right to take a day off should be included in our constitution, I mean we exercise it so often so why not go the entire distance and include it in the citizens charter. Since I am a honest and lawabiding citizen of the country, I exercise this right quite often. Of course I have to burn the midnight oil for my follies, becuase nothing comes free. But honeslty sweet are the pains of labour. Some of the excuses are as follows.

1) I lost my key and the land lord wouldnt let me break the lock. And since I was dressed   in bermudas and hawai chappal there was no way I could go to office,clad as I was. The mobile was inside the room and hence I couldnt inform anybody about my absence, and there was no way I could ever remember those nine digit telephone numbers.

2)Had a fight with the landlord and the landlord banished me from his house, I had to make alternative arrangements since I was given only one hour to vacate the property. Poor me.

3)My room mate met with a serious accident and I had to take care of him as he had nobody to take care of him.

4)I finally went down with viral fever. It helps if you had a minor headache the previous day. Do inform your boss about these minor developments, helps to lend credibility to your lies.

5)You have an examination to appear. Just to take care of any emergencies i have enrolled in every damned course on planet earth. Drama classes, guitar classes, german language classes, creative writing classes, ca, icwa, b level, etc etc.

6)You have this important document to collect and it is a matter of life and death for you.

7) You have a boil that hurts when you sit and more importantly when you shit, you need to get it taken care of it quick and hence a day off please.

8)I took a cab to office but the cab drivers were drunk and they dumped me in the middle of the highway sans my purse. I had to walk my way back home. I was too traumatised to go to the office. The boss never understood the trauma i had to go through and I almost had to work overtime. Got saved by an another lie.  

Actually a good lie is one that has some elements of truth in it. You build on this element of truth and if you are good at it you can build castles around it. It is easy all you need is a basic understanding of psychology and what makes your boss tick.

If my boss is reading this, I  am sure she would understand.