The dog ate my homework. My email crashed. My mother-in-law was in town. What's the best (made-up) excuse you've ever come up with to get out of something? And did it work, or did you get caught? :)
Now with having an active teenagers and a flakey x I usually tell them I have kids....which sometimes I usually end up having. When this has happened it's not to avoid the date, but to keep time open for a current favorite.
I rarely want to get out of a date I planned, but recently I did tell a guy that