Excuse Letter for Stye: Infected Eye Pus Needs Draining

Dear Teacher,

Kindly excuse Alfred Jones from class today. His mother will be picking up at 1pm for an outpatient procedure at the local hospital. As you may have notice his eyelid is swollen, he has an infected stye that needs to be drain. He will back in school the day after tomorrow.

Thank you
Dad

Excuse Letter Late for Work: No Running Water

For bath heads who love staying clean, hustle out of the shower and get to work on time. Or find a excuse for being late:

Dear Boss,

I'll be coming in late unfortunately there's no running water in our building after a burst pipe. I'll be there right after a quick bath at the gym. I really want to look presentable for our meeting today, so see you and sorry about this.

Gabriel

Excuse Letter for Pink Eye: Sore Eyes Contagious Disease

Dear Teacher,

Kindly excuse my son Andrew for being absent the last two days.
My son has pink eye (conjunctivitis) and I've decided it would be best not to let him attend class because what he has is contagious to other children. Please let me know the lessons he is missing or if there is any school work he could make up for the lost time in class.

Thank you,
Esme Faulkson

Excuse Letter for Being Absent at Work Due to Injury

A sample excuse letter for being absent in work due to injury; an excuse letter for being absent in work due to emergency

Dear Boss,

I'm not feeling so well and I'm going to see a doctor later today. I injured my back last weekend when I slipped down getting out of the tub.

I will advise you within the day what the doctor tells me. Hopefully, I can go back to work soon with some pain medication.

Regards,
Larry

How to Make an Excuse Letter

Making an excuse letter to get you off the hook should be easy. We usually need excuse letters at school or at work, just to get things officially on the record that for that certain day you were either tardy or absent.

So how does one make an effective or believable excuse letter? By default, your teacher, boss or HR manager are born skeptical. Most excuses are not easy to pass off especially if they are too farfetched. Yeah, what are the odds you got abducted by aliens that day?

So the first rule to keep in mind in making your excuse letter is to be HONEST. That should be plain and simple enough. You're late because the traffic was real bad. Just own up to it! It'll make things easier for you. But alas! Sometimes the truth is just plain terrible and it would reflect badly on your reputation if word ever gets out. Like this tardy and lame excuse -

I was late because I got so drunk last night that I overslept, and spent more time at the doughnut shop trying to get rid of my hangover.

Yeah that will never work out.

So the next step, if you can't get with being honest with your excuse is to state a far more acceptable reason along the lines of the truth.

I'm late today because I really had a bad migraine when I woke up this morning. (re: hangover)

Okay so that will do pig... well, dude, whatever!

Another tip is to have a collection of ready excuses for any occasion.Yeah, sounds a bit pathological, but useful though. In the 90s, Parker Lewis kept his tardy excuses on file on a Rolodex, so a bit of a throwback there, the lesson here is- you can't lose with every excuse you could think of because it can come in handy one day.

Here's a quick list of excuse letters from Letterbarn:

Late for Work Excuse Letter

Excuse Letter for Tardiness: Showing Up Late for Work

Excuse Letter for School: Kindly Excuse my Child Letter

6 Useful Excuse Letters Due to Illness

Excuse Letter to Miss Work the Next Day

Sample Sick Day Excuse Letter


One more thing, never ever go the fabulist's route, tall tales or any other bullshit don't ever work on your bosses or teachers.But if you want a full proof excuse, just go get a doctor's note and complain of a tummy ache then skip work or what not. Also genius, when you use an excuse letter you got off from the Internet, just think about this, how many people are submitting the exact same note? Customize the letter a bit, tweak it in such a way that it does come from you. So goodluck with that!

Excuse Letter for Tardiness: Showing Up Late for Work

Dear Manager,

I am late today because of the flooding. My house is underwater and the traffic getting here is real bad.
But not to worry, though I now have an official tardiness mark on my record. I am not all tardy in any way when it comes to my work. I am very diligent. All my work for the day will be done and you will receive a proper report on each project's progress.



Regards,
Steve

Excuse Letter: Sick with Swine Flu

Dear Teachers,

My child is suffering from very high fever the past couple of days and his pediatrician is suspecting a possible case of Swine Flu.

To avoid infecting any of your students, my son will be missing school until his fever subsides. I will also insist that you notify other parents to monitor their children's health. As they might have come in close contact with my son during play time or school work. I would like to apologize for this unfortunate situation, but right now my main concern is my son's well-being.

I will update the school immediatedly upon my son's recovery.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Piggs

School Excuse Letter

Dear School Principal,

Kindly excuse my son Edward V. Bella, senior student of Class B, he was absent from June 10-13, Monday to Wednesday.

I had to take my children to visit their grandfather who has been very ill and has requested the presence of his grandchildren. Our family is going through a very difficult time and Edward has been deeply affected by this family matter.

I hope you would kindly allow him to take any remedial tests or exams he missed during his absence from school.

I hope you understand.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Bella