carni 10,094 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Waltzing time in half an hour, Feeling kn......d, could really do with a skive tonight. I'm sure some of you have got a good Skive excuse for me, and I'll bet a few of you tried it on when you were younger, well even now, if you want to get out of something. Come on what excuse can I use? I don't think the old "I can't come tonight, I've got a bone in my leg" will do, it's a bit dated. I bet there's a few skivers among us, own up, I promise not to tell! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 I was a maintenance electrician in mining, didn't have a need to skive, most of the time my job was a total skive.....LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Annesleyred1865 137 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Bet you were looking at dust behind your eyelids then (Ayupmeducks) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,278 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 When it comes to work can honestly say 'never ever skived' loved all my working life (still do) feel sorry for those that did'nt............after all we spent alot of our lives working............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Belly ache,tooth ache,bad back,migraine,food poisoning, sprain,cramp,not that I have ever used these mind! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Best excuse I heard from a 12 year old when he`d failed to hand in his homework again. I sighed and said, 'I suppose the dog ate your homework again Wayne? And quick as a flash and with a straight face he replied, 'Actually Miss, the dog ate my pencil so I'm afraid I couldn`t do it.' Bet he went far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,278 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 When we ran our own family busines had all them lame excuses Ian......plus a popular one today 'its my birthday' or even the partners and kids birthday,but the ones i really did't like when they wer'nt true was that someone close had passed away,......Twice in some cases..........lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Tut Tut! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 826 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 At least, that’s what an 1854 use of the word ‘skiving’ might have us believe. ‘kiving like a lapwing’ was apparently a common enough phrase in Northamptonshire at the time, to make it into Anne E. Baker’s Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, describing the birds’ skimming over the surface of the water. Today, of course, the term is used by politicians the lapwing-related sense of the word is informative. In the 19th century, to skive was to move lightly and quickly; to dart. Since the early 20th century, it has been more commonly used in Britain to mean: To evade a duty, to shirk; to avoid work by absenting oneself, to play truant. In the context of recent discussions of benefits and the skivers who do not deserve to claim them, that seems about right. The most likely etymology, according to the Oxford English Dictionary seems to be from the French, esquiver, that is: to dodge, or slink away. But I like to think of my most successful attempts at skiving as having the same light, quick, darting motion and glorious enjoyment of freedom as that of a bird skimming the water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 On the buses. on a crap shift when raining, two big electrical terminals on the wiper motor would easily short out when a back door key "fell" across the terminals ! Oh dear ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Only on nights #3, actually at Boulby, it was too hot, and conditions demanded you kept on your toes, going to sleep and being carried out in a body bag because of a fall isn't pleasant, so I'm led to believe..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 Mick!!!!! That could very easily have melted your back door key. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 You want me to do WHAT?.........................I'm 67 you know ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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