All-Star Best Excuses To Miss Practice...

SmileyRyleigh said:

agreed. my former coach is the attendance person for school, (not a teacher so she couldn't check our grades) and if we had a D than we "needed to stay home and study" instead of cheer at the basketball games. i'm a straight A student... but to be honest i stayed home and "studied" over half the games last year. only cheered at 6! heheheh.

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Hodiestoe said:

So the other week was our first showcase ever. However, we had only been given 2 weeks notice to pull a routine together ... long story the gymnastics/trampoline gym that we are part of had a winter competition and decided 2 weeks before it would be a good idea for the cheerleaders to perform whilst the judges were totting up the scores. I agreed as we needed to perform and we had parts of a routine that we could pull together. Anyway back to the story ... I had made an extra 2 Sundays mandatory on top of our regular Wed/Fri training. This one girl (who has BAGS of potential but is so extremely lazy) came to me on the Friday and said she wouldn't be there on the Sunday as she had to do her Christmas shopping. :banghead: I very calmly and politely explained that if her booty wasn't there then not only was she out of the routine but so would some of her team mates be as I didn't have time to re-choreograph her out, I'd just have to take her group out all together. She had the whole of Saturday plus evenings when she wasn't training to go shopping, it's not like we train every night. Anyway she turned up and all was good.

That following Wednesday was a teachers strike day and most of the schools across the country were shut. After a day off I fully expected my whole squad there at 4:30 ready to go. No, not only was that girl not there, her two friends weren't either. :banghead: No one could get in touch with her or the other two, phone/text/BBM/FB you name it, no apology, no message, NADA. Friday comes and the three of them saunter into the gym and some of the other girls go a little crazy at them as it REALLY screwed up our training, but this girl basically just told them to shut up. When I had counted to 100, taken a deep breath and said a quick prayer for grace, I went over and politely enquired where the hell they had been. Her response...shopping for Christmas presents. THEY HAD BEEN OFF SCHOOL A WHOLE DAY!!!!!!!!!!! And the other two went as they were the other bases in the stunt group and they figured if they all weren't there they they all couldn't be kicked off. Oh my did they do some conditioning that day. They got pulled out of everything that they were not absolutely needed in. The girl lost her tumbling pass and her friend lost being point on the dance. I have now rechoreographed them into the back of everything - mess me about and see if you get away with it missy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Just-a-Mom said:

In her defense...there are lots of things you go to the ER for that you know you'll be fine as soon as you leave. Migraines, asthma treatments etc. I don't always tell people why I'm there either (this thread is the reason - because I don't like people judging my reasoning for the things I do...such as "She went to the ER for a migraine?!?! Whatever...")


Or she could just be a big fat liar and just didn't want to go to practice...

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cheerKT said:

Me too! When's yours? Mines February 20th.

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lakerfantlc said:

bahahahaha and ugly!!!!

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brittzcheer4 said:

My mom was getting married, I was maid of honor....we planned her wedding JUST FINE around my practice time later that night. i hopped in the car, my aunt drove me the 45 minutes to my car pool, and we continued to drive another hour to practice. I made it on time and my mom wouldn't have planned it any other way. missing a practice right before showcase would be unheard of and unacceptable in my family, sorry we are dedicated.
My birthday also falls on a competition pretty much never fail just about every year....why would i want to spend my birthday anywhere else than with all my cheer people and performing? seriously, what could be better???

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mishtm52 said:

I've had a teammate call our coach once practice had started saying she couldn't make it because the St. Patrick's Day parade had blocked all the ways out of town... Meanwhile her neighbor from 2 streets down aka me was sitting right in front of our coach.

There's been so many others that I can't even think of right now, it's killing me.

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SmileyRyleigh said:

One of the girls on my team is a MAJOR hypochondriac. i dislocated my elbow and tore some ligaments over the summer at tumbling, and then i got some weird thing in the socket that had to be drained... blah blah blah. anyways, i texted her because she wasn't at practice. she replied saying "i think that disease you had in your elbow was CONTAGIOUS. i'm going to the doctor right now to get tested and x-rayed. i didn't want to tell you to freak you out though." ... She was serious. No joke. I didn't know dislocating your elbow was a disease... am i missing something?

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ctwings said:

We just had a parent say that 2 weeks ago!!!! We scheduled an extra practice on a Saturday 9-11 and a mom called and said her cp has a b-day party that starts at 12...I asked why she couldn't be at practice when we get done before it starts and her response was "she needs to get dressed and get her hair done"!!!! I died....and the party was for her 3 year old cousin.....:-\

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xtremeteal4life said:

True, but CheerKT said that the mom told her she was in the ER (which I assume was at that moment) and how would her mom know exactly what was wrong w/her to the extent she knew she'd be at practice the next day?

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