Need a GOOD excuse for not going out with that geek? Try these:

I'd love to, but...

  • 1 I have to floss my cat.
  • 2 I've dedicated my life to linguini.
  • 3 I want to spend more time with my blender.
  • 4 The President said he might drop in.
  • 5 The man on television told me to say tuned.
  • 6 I've been scheduled for a karma transplant.
  • 7 I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
  • 8 It's my parakeet's bowling night.
  • 9 It wouldn't be fair to the other Beautiful People.
  • 10 I'm building a pig from a kit.
  • 11 I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it.
  • 12 I'm enrolled in aerobic scream therapy.
  • 13 There's a disturbance in the Force.
  • 14 I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling.
  • 15 I have to go to the post office to see if I'm still wanted.
  • 16 I'm teaching my ferret to yodel.
  • 17 I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products.
  • 18 I'm going through cherry cheesecake withdrawl.
  • 19 I'm planning to go downtown to try on gloves.
  • 20 My crayons all melted together.
  • 21 I'm trying to see how long I can go without saying yes.
  • 22 I'm in training to be a household pest.
  • 23 I'm getting my overalls overhauled.
  • 24 My patent is pending.
  • 25 I'm attending the opening of my garage door.
  • 26 I'm sandblasting my oven.
  • 27 I'm worried about my vertical hold.
  • 28 I'm going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise.
  • 29 I'm being deported.
  • 30 The grunion are running.
  • 31 I'll be looking for a parking space.
  • 32 My Millard Filmore Fan Club meets then.
  • 33 The monsters haven't turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots.
  • 34 I'm taking punk totem pole carving.
  • 35 I have to fluff my shower cap.
  • 36 I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian.
  • 37 I've come down with a really horrible case of something or other.
  • 38 I made an appointment with a cuticle specialist.
  • 39 My plot to take over the world is thickening.
  • 40 I have to fulfill my potential.
  • 41 I don't want to leave my comfort zone.
  • 42 It's too close to the turn of the century.
  • 43 I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary.
  • 44 My subconscious says no.
  • 45 I'm giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store.
  • 46 I left my body in my other clothes.
  • 47 The last time I went, I never came back.
  • 48 I've got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting.
  • 49 I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters.
  • 50 None of my socks match.
  • 51 I have to be on the next train to Bermuda.
  • 52 I'm having all my plants neutered.
  • 53 People are blaming me for the Spanish-American War.
  • 54 I changed the lock on my door and now I can't get out.
  • 55 I'm making a home movie called "The Thing That Grew in My Refrigerator."
  • 56 I'm attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer.
  • 57 My yucca plant is feeling yucky.
  • 58 I'm touring China with a wok band.
  • 59 My chocolate-appreciation class meets that night.
  • 60 I never go out on days that end in "Y."
  • 61 My mother would never let me hear the end of it.
  • 62 I'm running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student named Basil Metabolism.
  • 63 I just picked up a book called "Glue in Many Lands" and I can't put it down.
  • 64 I'm too old/young for that stuff.
  • 65 I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair.
  • 66 I have too much guilt.
  • 67 There are important world issues that need worrying about.
  • 68 I have to draw "Cubby" for an art scholarship.
  • 69 I'm uncomfortable when I'm alone or with others.
  • 70 I promised to help a friend fold road maps.
  • 71 I feel a song coming on.
  • 72 I'm trying to be less popular.
  • 73 My bathroom tiles need grouting.
  • 74 I have to bleach my hare.
  • 75 I'm waiting to see if I'm already a winner.
  • 76 I'm writing a love letter to Richard Simmons.
  • 77 You know how we psychos are.
  • 78 My favorite commercial is on TV.
  • 79 I have to study for a blood test.
  • 80 I'm going to be old someday.
  • 81 I've been traded to Cincinnati.
  • 82 I'm observing National Apathy Week.
  • 83 I have to rotate my crops.
  • 84 My uncle escaped again.
  • 85 I'm up to my elbows in waxy buildup.
  • 86 I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar.
  • 87 I'm having my baby shoes bronzed.
  • 88 I have to go to court for kitty littering.
  • 89 I'm going to count the bristles in my toothbrush.
  • 90 I have to thaw some karate chops for dinner.
  • 91 Having fun gives me prickly heat.
  • 92 I'm going to the Missing Persons Bureau to see if anyone is looking for me.
  • 93 I have to jog my memory.
  • 94 My palm reader advised against it.
  • 95 My Dress For Obscurity class meets then.
  • 96 I have to stay home and see if I snore.
  • 97 I prefer to remain an enigma.
  • 98 I think you want the OTHER [your name].
  • 99 I have to sit up with a sick ant.
  • 100 I'm trying to cut down.
  • 101 ... well, maybe.

    Return to the Jokes Page, this wasn't funny.


    people needed these excuses. The other 26.7% were geeks.