This Friday is National Call - Out - Sick - From - employment - To - Stay - Home - And - Pull - Garlic - Mustard - Before - It - lead - To - Seed Day . So start thinking up your excuses now people , because those things are about to BLOW .

I have a special hatey smell for Garlic Mustard , as it really should n’t be composted , since it continues to go to seed even if you root for it in sentence , it should be bagged and haul aside to a dump- which just is n’t correct . Or it can be burned , which also seems like more effort than it deserves .

I ’m training my kid to pull these jerks . It ’s an old family tradition , since I was pay to pull them once I receive just a fiddling bit sr. than she is .

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So you have a whole week to work up a tarradiddle . Start with a footling cough on Monday and crescendo up to fake sneeze all over the office on Thursday . Make a big show of lecture about going out to a possibly tricky young sushi bar on Thursday dark . I care faking pinkish eye . That ’s sort of my go - to …

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