I'm having an allergic reaction to this right now.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mon and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, when should you make excuses?

Like I tried to start the car, but it turns out that like, you know, my sister-in-law had borrowed it so it wasn't even there. Mike, we have a question from a Ken Reed from Texas and it is about excuses. You ready?

I'm not ready, but it's not my fault. Exactly. All right. Ken Reed says,

mom always said don't make excuses, but I want to know are excuses effective. For example, if you make a mistake at work,

is your boss more likely to look down on you for giving an excuse slash explanation or is she more likely to be

understanding and forgiving if you make an excuse. Are you better off if you suck

it up and silently accept responsibility or if you

explain the cause of slash reason for the mistake.

Such an interesting question. Do you have answers for Ken? I have so many thoughts, but my first thought Angela is about a hilarious

Reddit thread that I was reading recently about funny excuses that people have made.

There's like a Reddit thread on like great excuses.

Exactly, I mean sometimes you go down the wormhole, you know, and you just start reading.

Absolutely. Okay, so one is about a

substitute teacher for kindergarten who just didn't show up to teach a class and so

this person writes the person actually never called but when we finally got a hold of her

she said she didn't show up because she woke up early and decided to bake bread so she

couldn't come to work because she had to wait until the bread was finished. She said she could

work in the afternoon instead because she really needed the money and they said yeah

that's not how it works when you're a substitute kindergarten teacher. I feel like

those are the people who should be the

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