Looks like I'm not going to work today. Usually calling in sick is a fairly mundane thing. Colds, the flu, the trots, etc... Well, my excuse is much more on the strange side... I'm the keyboard player in a band and we had a rehearsal last night. When I got there, everything had already been set up. Sloppily. So just as I was starting to set up, the keyboard stand collapsed and sent an extremely heavy digital piano crashing down to the floor. Luckily my foot was there to break its fall. Ouch!!!

So, today -- calling in to tell my work I wouldn't be coming in because a piano fell on my foot was one of the more "interesting" sick calls I've made to-date. When the clinic opens, I'm going to get it looked at and x-rayed to make sure nothing's broken. Until then I'm going to sit here and listen to some music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. I'm not sure if that's considered morbid or just appropriate.

(For those who don't know who Lully is, he was a 17th century composer and conductor. He used to conduct by banging a long, wooden staff on the floor to keep the rhythm - until one day he accidentally brought the staff down on his foot, developed an abscess, it turned gangrenous and he died).

So, for the sake of discussion -- and since I'm stuck at home all day, please regale me with your own tales of the strangest "not coming into work today" excuse you've ever phoned in (or your co-worker phoned in, or heck, even "a friend of a friend"). I don't care -- I just want to read some good stories!