VOL. 6, NO. 10
FEB. 19, 1965

Students' Laziness Explained
Did you go to class today without your homework? You probably sat there thinking to yourself, "Cook up something convincing; it's gotta sound sincere."

There's always the old standby for forgetful students, "I accidentally left my books in school." The real reason is that you left your books in school on purpose.

Probably you could h a v e walked into the classroom all bandaged up and looked into the sympathetic eyes of the teacher and said something like "With this clumsy bandage on my hand, I just can't write a thing." Of course you have to put the bandage on your writing hand, and you have to have some acting skill, because then you really have to look like death warmed-over.
 Certainly you don't want to forget to blame the dog. This excuse is probably the safest, because how can the dog defend himself? "My dog chewed up my assignment sheet." Actually, you made an airplane out of the sheet, and it crash landed.

You might want to try this excuse, but it doesn't carry a guarantee, "I had an English theme to do which was assigned two months ago. Naturally I waited till last night to do it, and I worked on it for two hours. At 10 p.m. my parents made me go to bed." You probably did have a theme due, but at 10 p.m. you watched the late-show. (By the way, how was the movie?)

Of course, if you really want to be brave, you can walk right up to the teacher with your life in your hands and just say "I forgot!" Who knows, maybe it's the truth!