We’ve discovered that Junior makes an excellent excuse for just about anything.

• A buddy wants to watch a lame football game at the local dive bar.  “Sorry, gotta watch Junior while the wife goes out.”

• Tired of that 1-year old’s birthday party where his parents are more interested than he is? “Oh, Junior has been up since 5:00 AM and needs to get home for a nap.”

The excuses go on…

• Junior is sick and just gave us his cold
• I have to pick him up from day care
• We can’t come over because it’ll be past his bed-time

Mind you these are often valid reasons to bail but the other party will never know the truth from exaggeration.

A few days ago I discovered I could use Junior to insult a clerk at Walgreens. I didn’t intend to but I needed to drop off a prescription, felt under the weather, had a crying baby, and every clerk was 100% busy with their one customer.

When the main clerk called her Manager to assist with the scanning of 4 identical items, I looked down at Junior and said “I guess everyone is too busy today to handle the work.”

She gave me a look but, come on, who can possibly be angry at someone with a crying baby? At her suggestion I went to another clerk in cosmetics to handle my purchase.

In case you’re wondering, I didn’t have an ounce of guilt.

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