She said, "nice excuse for a paper."
I was late again. I sat outside the classroom door rather than go inside. Like last time, someone else came along and we went in together. Before I got there, the instructor expressed displeasure about our physics papers. We forgot to cite our sources. I cited everything, but I forgot to write a paper. I give it an A for effort and a B for content. Contents includes a missing quotation mark, some idiosyncratic footnoting, and mad dramatic irony.