Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > What's the worst excuse you ever used?

[Ains.]

A mate of mine who still works on the railways told me of the excuse he once used which, he claimed was absolutely true, when he was late for work.

A bit of preinfo'. Trains are fitted with AWS's [Advanced Warning System]. This is the thing you can hear on the small diesels ringing and blearing away everytime the train passes a signal.

Ring equal green, the blare is any other aspect.

Right then.

This mate of mine is fast asleep and his alarm clock goes off ringggggggggg.
So, dreaming of driving a train (time to give up job I would have thought) he cancels it and carries on sleep driving.
The snooze expires and ringggggggggggggg
He cancels it and carries on again.
Wakes up at a daft O'clock past his signing on for shift time, but goes in anyway.
Train supervisor wants to know why he was late and sticks a form 1 in front of him for an explaination.

So, he wrote down as above.

He got away with it!!!

Ains.