The Ultimate All-Purpose Excuse

The best excuse I can think of is “I’m applying for a scholarship” when I get into trouble with not wanting to go to events my parents go to or if I forget to do my chores. I spent most of my time recording and just looking at scholarships and deciding whether or not I have time to do them or not. My parents usually make me go to events to help out or to show my respect but since I don’t like interacting with people, I tend to stay home. Since my parents believe that I should be bolder and tell people what I want, I like to just agree with them but avoid doing it to get out of trouble or a lecture. I tend to avoid talking to other people and even after telling my parents, they still insist that I get out more which is why they try to make me go to events with them. Although I appreciate the way they’re trying to make me be more assertive, I prefer to do things slowly and not rush it because I’m not ready to just suddenly change from an introvert person to an extrovert. Sometimes the scholarship excuse works but if I say it all the time my parents would ignore it and make me go. But it’s not all the time that my parents make me go, sometimes I would go on my own to these events if they serve of an importance to me like making someone happy or my own mother happy on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day celebration event.  

The other only BIG trouble I’ll ever get is if my grades are bad. If I get a grade lower than a B my parents would lecture me and take away anything I find fun and make me study and do chores all day. I would usually the excuse that “the teachers didn’t grade all of the papers and have time to put into the grade book yet” Sometimes it works, other times I just have to bear with the chores and extra amount of study time. And the applying for scholarships excuse sometimes works too but rarely relates to why I have a bad grade. This usually last a week until my parents forget about the grades because of other things but if I do something that would remind them of my grades then I’m back to doing chores and no games or fun for another week. Although there are other things that are considered BIG troubles, the most important BIG trouble I tend to be careful with and avoid is if my parents are disappointed in me.