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The Late-to-School Chronicles: A Comedy of Sorts!
The top 10 most hilarious reasons kids were late to school
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It’s 8:10 am, the school bus is rumbling down our street, and my 11-year-old is frantically searching for his science project. Meanwhile, my 9-year-old has decided that today is the perfect day to reorganize his entire Baseball card collection... right on the kitchen table. As I'm calculating our chances of making it to school before the bell, I'm already crafting our tardiness excuse in my head. Looks like we’re in for another thrilling episode of "🔔 Beat the Bell: The Frazzled Parent Edit."
As I drove the kids to school (of course 🤦🏽), I kept thinking about the absurdity of our morning chaos. It reminded me of a hilarious TikTok rant I saw recently, where a mom was lamenting being late by just 7 minutes. The fun part? The 6,932 comments from parents sharing their own tardiness tales.
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The top 10 most hilarious reasons kids were late to school
🧦 The Sock Saga: One parent confessed, “The amount of times I've written 'socks' is embarrassing.”
👕 Sleeve Sensitivity: “My kid complained the sleeve was touching his wrists.”
👵🏽 Grandma’s Grand Delay: "Grandma couldn't get it together."
❄️ Florida’s Phantom Snow: One creative parent used to always write "Snow in the driveway"... they lived in Florida.
🌋 Floor is Lava Champion: A mom wrote, "I made my daughter a shirt that says 'Sorry I'm late, the floor was lava'."
🫐 Breakfast Wardrobe Malfunction: "Spilled yogurt drink down pants and purposely sat on 8 blueberries."
👖 The Great Pants Rebellion: A parent wrote, "My kid didn't want to wear pants today."
💁🏼 Dad's Honest Moment: A father of three simply wrote "not enough hands" on the sign-in sheet.
💁🏼 Public Transit Problems: One parent admitted to writing "We got on the struggle bus instead" too many times to count.
🚽The Last-Minute Bathroom Dash: And the best one: "My kid had to poop 5 min before we walk out the door."
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