Image Source: Getty / Karwai Tang [1]
We all have those "my dog ate my homework. . . no really, it did" stories. Mine? Just a swan casually on the train tracks so I couldn't make it to work, but J.K. Rowling's latest excuse takes the cake. After Quite Interesting [2], the fact-finding team for BBC show QI, tweeted out on Thursday, "In April 2016, the Large Hadron Collider was shut down after a weasel fell into it," the author replied, recalling a particularly hilarious and incredibly random reason she couldn't hand in an edit for The Casual Vacancy one time. "I couldn't email my editor final changes on
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 22, 2018 [5]
Of course, Twitter fans couldn't help but get in on the fun and share their equally random "dog ate my homework" stories.
I had trouble working from home because Meepers wouldn't get off my laptop. Animals and work man. pic.twitter.com/0uQNe3hgSb [6]
— Jess (@dochaseve) March 22, 2018 [7]
Squirrels ate ALL the wires to my Christmas light display this Winter! I believe you! pic.twitter.com/TuVlRaJ3n2 [8]
— BabyBlueEyes (@BlueCatInTheSky) March 22, 2018 [9]
@qikipedia [10] I once wrote to my daughter's teacher explaining that she HAD done her homework, but I accidentally set fire to it
— Denise Bowes (@denisebowes) March 22, 2018 [11]
My train was once delayed because of a badger in the junction box at Purley
— Geoffrey (@Gil21christ) March 22, 2018 [12]
I once had to ring my daughter's school and explain that my dog actually did eat her homework. pic.twitter.com/sBQC0rQbvl [13]
— 🌞 Rowan Coleman 🌞 (@rowancoleman) March 23, 2018 [14]
Both the weasel and aardvark now have super powers.
— David Ludwig (@DLudwigMusic) March 22, 2018 [15]
Never change, J.K. Rowling.