Cute

So I threatened my students because of the pervasive absence problems. Craig was excused. It's not like him to blow off class and he did send word with another of my students.

Here's his reply:

Kristen Peters:

Hello, my name is Craig Hoffman, I am in your monday/wednesday/friday 10:00 A.M. English 104 class. I am writing to you in regards to my absence from class on Monday April the 11th. As you may have already heard from my esteemed collegue, Brian Menezes, due to some quite extenuating circumstances, I regretably was given no oppurtunity to be present at the library. Let me unfold to you the situation. After a wonderful weekend of visiting my father, and celebrating my grandfather's birthday in Windthorst, Tx., I had been scheduled to arrive at Chicago/O'hare airport at approximately 18 hundred hours central time, after making a quick stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, due to unavoidable maintenece issues, my S 80 American Airlines airplane, immediately prior to takeoff, was delayed several hours. After the initial problem had been taken care of, severe thunderstorms in the surrounding area prohited further air travel on said date, therefore stranding my brother, Dustin Hoffman, and I in Oklahoma for the night. We then stayed at a Holiday Inn Select, courtesy of American Airlines (the hotel had a very nice fitness room by the way), and rescheduled our flight for 07:15 central time, the following day. In accordance to this strict timeing factor, we were obligated to wake up at 04:30 central time that morning and take a shuttle bus back to the airport to make our flight on time. After all this, I finally arrived back in Dekalb, Illinois at approximately 12:00 Central time. So as you can see, after taking all possible measures, my absence was definitely inevitable, and despite all my good intentions to be present in my favorite morning class, I was denied such an oppurtunity. I hope sincerely that you will see the benevolence in my case, and will take this in consideration when you are faced with decision of whether to fail me or not.

I've got to say that this is one of the more "innovative" responses I have gotten. He really got to me on this one. I really want to send it back with corrections, but instead, I turn to my grade book and change the "UN" to "EX" yet again. God, I'm such a pushover.