10 Outrageous Excuses for Being Late to Work

"I had to wait for the judge to set my bail."

I was late to work today. Yet, in my case it was for good reason. I was driving on the expressway to work today and my car was not driving like normal. It was shaking, badly, and I didn't feel comfortable taking it for my drive. Lucky for me, a co-worker isn't much further than where I live and she was able to take me to work today.

That seems like a viable excuse. I called my boss, got to work and took care of the problem. Some people who come to work late use insanely outrageous excuses.

CareerBulider asked over 3,000 full-time employees and over 2,100 hiring managers about their habits of being late. The most common excuses for being late were bad traffic, lack of sleep and lousy weather. These were the 10 most outrageous:

• I knocked myself out in the shower.
• I was drunk and forgot which Waffle House I parked my car next to.
• I discovered my spouse was having an affair, so I followed him this morning to find out who he was having an affair with.
• Someone robbed the gas station I was at, and I didn’t have enough gas to get to another station.
• I had to wait for the judge to set my bail.
• There was a stranger sleeping in my car.
• A deer herd that was moving through town made me late.
• I’m not late. I was thinking about work on the way in.
• I dreamed that I got fired.
• I went out to my car to drive to work, and the trunk had been stolen out of it. (In this case, the employee had the photo to prove it.)*

Could you imagine! Next time, I'm going to tell my boss their was a stranger in my car. Ha!