So That Happened

<p>This is Mark McLelland, a 20-year-old landscaper from <a href="http://www.someecards.com/news/cnn/cnn-made-a-pretty-stupid-mistake-while-reporting-the-scotland-independence-results/">Scotland</a> who partied so hard over the weekend he woke up on Monday <a href="http://www.someecards.com/life/weekend/national-hangover-day-hangover-cures/">too hungover</a> to go to work.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="Scots! They&#39;re just like us!" height="400" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/image-UpXE2X.png" width="400" /></div> <figcaption>Scots! They&#39;re just like us!</figcaption> </figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>So McLelland did what we&#39;ve all had to do when faced with a crippling hangover: he <a href="http://www.someecards.com/life/health/being-hungover-costs-us-billion/">called out sick</a> with &quot;the runs.&quot; This is TMI which normally would make it a foolproof excuse. But there was a hitch: this happened yesterday. Yesterday was Sunday.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/26gJzc8gAkTImtSLe" width="480" height="353" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>His boss caught his fail and had the perfect reply.</p><p>Being a bloke with a sense of humo<em>u</em>r, McLelland tweeted a screenshot of the exchange:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When u wake up thinking it&#39;s Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day aff 😂 <a href="https://t.co/Z3UAah2AY9">pic.twitter.com/Z3UAah2AY9</a></p>&mdash; Mark (@Mark_McLelland) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mark_McLelland/status/828205579655069696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;When u wake up thinking it&#39;s Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day aff,&quot; he wrote.</p><p>McLelland&#39;s text to his boss reads: &ldquo;Greig isit awryt if a can take a holiday the day mate av got the runs man.&quot; (Translation: Had too much chipotle. Can&#39;t make it to work.)</p><p>His boss, known only as &quot;Greig,&quot; had the perfect comeback: &quot;1 &ndash; you need to come up with a better excuse than the runs, that&rsquo;s the worst ever.</p><p>2 &ndash; it&rsquo;s Sunday ya fuckin weapon.&rdquo;</p><p>No translation needed. Whatever &quot;ya fuckin weapon&quot; means, it&#39;s not something you want your employer to call you.</p><p>Luckily, his boss has a good sense of humo<em>u</em>r<em> </em>too. &ldquo;I woke up thinking it was Monday and I couldn&rsquo;t get out bed so the first thing that came to my mind was the runs,&quot; McLelland <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2796192/scottish-bosss-hilarious-reply-to-worker-who-tried-to-phone-in-sick-when-hungover-and-confused-on-his-day-off/" target="_blank">told <em>The Sun</em></a><em><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2796192/scottish-bosss-hilarious-reply-to-worker-who-tried-to-phone-in-sick-when-hungover-and-confused-on-his-day-off/" target="_blank">.</a> </em>&ldquo;I never expected that reply but we usually get on well in work so we both saw the funny side to it.&rdquo;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>In other news: now we know some good Scottish slang. Now get out there and use it, ya fuckin weapons.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/xUySTLi7nQAsKCv94Y" width="480" height="270" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Guy partied so hard he forgot what day it was. His boss remembered.

This is Mark McLelland, a 20-year-old landscaper from Scotland who partied so hard over the weekend he woke up on Monday too hungover to go to work. Scots! They&#39;re just like us! So McLelland did what we&#39;ve all had to do when faced with a crippling hangover: he called out sick with &quot;the runs.&quot; This is TMI which normally would make it a foolproof excuse. But there was a hitch: this happened yesterday. Yesterday was Sunday.His boss caught his fail and had the perfect reply.Being a bloke with a sense of humour, McLelland tweeted a screenshot of the exchange:When u wake up thinking it&#39;s Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day aff 😂 pic.twitter.com/Z3UAah2AY9&mdash; Mark (@Mark_McLelland) February 5, 2017 &quot;When u wake up thinking it&#39;s Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day aff,&quot; he wrote.McLelland&#39;s text to his boss reads: &ldquo;Greig isit awryt if a can take a holiday the day mate av got the runs man.&quot; (Translation: Had too much chipotle. Can&#39;t make it to work.)His boss, known only as &quot;Greig,&quot; had the perfect comeback: &quot;1 &ndash; you need to come up with a better excuse than the runs, that&rsquo;s the worst ever.2 &ndash; it&rsquo;s Sunday ya fuckin weapon.&rdquo;No translation needed. Whatever &quot;ya fuckin weapon&quot; means, it&#39;s not something you want your employer to call you.Luckily, his boss has a good sense of humour too. &ldquo;I woke up thinking it was Monday and I couldn&rsquo;t get out bed so the first thing that came to my mind was the runs,&quot; McLelland told The Sun. &ldquo;I never expected that reply but we usually get on well in work so we both saw the funny side to it.&rdquo;In other news: now we know some good Scottish slang. Now get out there and use it, ya fuckin weapons.

This is Mark McLelland, a 20-year-old landscaper from Scotland who partied so hard over the weekend he woke up on Monday too hungover to go to work.   Scots! They&#39;re just like us!   So McLelland did what we&#39;ve all had to do when...