I’d love to, but…
- I’m taking punk totem pole carving.
- I have to fluff my shower cap.
- I’m converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian.
- I’ve come down with a really horrible case of something or other.
- I made an appointment with a cuticle specialist.
- my plot to take over the world is thickening.
- I have to fulfill my potential.
- I don’t want to leave my comfort zone.
- it’s too close to the turn of the century.
- I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary.
- my subconscious says no.
- I’m giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store.
- I left my body in my other clothes.
- the last time I went, I never came back.
- I’ve got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting.
- I have to answer all of my “occupant” letters.
- none of my socks match.
- I have to be on the next train to Bermuda.
- I’m having all my plants neutered.
- people are blaming me for the Spanish-American War.
- I changed the lock on my door and now I can’t get out.
- I’m making a home movie called “The Thing That Grew in My Refrigerator.”
- I’m attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer.
- my yucca plant is feeling yucky.
- I’m touring China with a wok band.
- my chocolate-appreciation class meets that night.
- I never go out on days that end in “Y.”
- my mother would never let me hear the end of it.
- I’m running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student named Basil Metabolism.
- I just picked up a book called “Glue in Many Lands” and I can’t put it down.
- I’m too old/young for that stuff.
- I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair.
- I have too much guilt.
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