Appease my curiousity, please.

[featherynscale]

I woke up this morning feeling vaguely like I'd been hit by a bus. I wandered around, took a shower, wondered if I were ill and should call in to work, and then I realized that I wasn't ill, I was just mad. And I don't think one can call in mad to work, which is sort of a shame. Might cut down on office shooting sprees. I wasn't that mad, of course, but you get the idea.

Anyway, this reminded me of redbelle27's icon about calling in queer. And that made me wonder. I've never successfully called in for anything other than illness, car trouble, or flights delayed/stuck out of town. I've faked it, but even then, I faked one of those things. Have any of you lot ever successfully called in for anything unusual? Called in crazy? Called in dead? "Too mellow to be bothered to go to work today"?

Also, how come there's a mood icon for "crappy", but not one for "interested" or "intrigued"?

Comments

[closer-to-fine.livejournal.com]

zerself and I have often joked about calling in "laid", as in a) having spent the entire night having excellent sex and are now too tired to entertain the thought of working, or b) woke up, had some excellent morning sex and now want to continue the trend by staying in bed all day.

I actually did do this once (although my excuse to work was that I was sick) and it was glorious. :)

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I've done that a lot as the wife used to come home from the bar at 4-5 AM and was occasionally amourous. I missed a few meetings one day, and when asked about it I was honest... I was involved in intense marital relations that morning and missed the meeting.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think that would be an excellent thing to call in for. I don't think I've ever even considered that, though -- perhaps now I shall :)

It does remind me a bit of my college and immediately post-college days, when the Emperor Kristoff (my best friend) and I would discuss the possibility of skipping class or work due to too many hours staying awake the night before due to ingestion of scheduled chemical substances. We referred to this as being "snowed in", as in "Maybe we can tell them we were snowed in", even though all of these events took place in Florida.