Maybe it is me but it always seems like I have embarrassing things happen to me that I feel I can't tell people about. So I have to call out and lie about being sick.

This weekend my cat bit my hands kind of bad. I can hardly type and if someone hits my fingers it hurts. So I don't want to go into work. But I know I will be "that cat lady" --- usually someone makes fun of me when have a scratch or something ... like I am an abused weird cat lady.

Often times I have embarrassing things happen that I am sick but I don't want them to know about. I once had a large boil in a bad place. I could hardly walk. Eventually I had to go to the ER and get it lanced. But I couldn't tell them that. So I said I had the flu.

At one point I did something to my feet. I believe somehow I pulled the tendons that pulled my my arch. It was super painful. Like knives were being pushed into me when I walked. I called out and used the flu but it was really that I could hardly walk. It wasn't embarrassing per se but I didn't think they would understand. Eventually I couldn't lie anymore and when I told them, they didn't believe me... and I had to get a doctor note.