Here are some of my favorites (and every one is real):

• Didn’t get invitation or know about meeting.
• Important customer call – closing a deal.
• I’m sick, have a doctor’s appointment.
• Kids or wife sick.
• Car broke down, ran out of gas, in an accident.
• Just got in from traveling.
• It was raining, cold, hot, humid, foggy, windy.
• I forgot.
• I don’t need to go to meetings since I am a superstar, have 20 years sales experience, commission-only, your buddy.
• I was abducted by aliens, again, and ran out of Preparation H.
• And my all time favorite (not made up, I promise, right Wayne?) “I had to take my girlfriend’s cat to the vet.”

  Here is my response: If there was $1,000 at stake, would you have been able to remember and be at the meeting? I thought so.

  By the way, my response about the sick cat was “Here’s $5, get another cat.”