I once heard of 4 college students who missed an important exam. They had all overslept and totally ignored the alarms on their phones. When they woke up and realized what had happened, one of them came up with a brilliant idea, "Guys, we will tell the professor we had a flat tire on our way"
So they all went together to their professor the next day and said, "We are so sorry we missed the exam, we had all left the flat at 7am yesterday morning, 2 hours before the exam, but we had a flat tire on our way, is there any way we could possibly retake the test?" (Continue...)

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