A survey company asked 1,000 random Americans why they have sneaked out of work early over the past year. The most common answers are listed below:
- Gotta get the best spot to stand at Fight Club.
- Drug dealer asked me to hurry.
- Mom's house, mom's rules.
- Trying to impress parole officer with punctuality.
- So no one I know sees me buying a ticket to see Scary Movie 5
- Recreational softball is not 'just a game'.
- Cats might get moody if I'm late for dinner again.
- Must return red Ferrari before friends' dead-beat Dad notices it's missing.
- Much easier to pad billable hours when no one is looking.
- Wal-Mart having a going-out-of-business sale.
- Attend Macaulay Culkin book-talk and autograph signing.
- To throw some singles at the stripper before visiting the wife and kids.
- To moonlight at our other subsistence wage job
- To try to beat traffic, only to discover that everyone on the road did the exact same thing.
- Got the extra hour off thanks to sequestration furloughs
- To avoid having our boss give us 4 hours of last minute work at 4:55
