Really -- you want to use THAT as an "excuse"

From the e-mail files...

Aparently the deaths of friends grandparents is sufficient to supposedly excuse one from class.

I can almost buy the friend dying the day before class --- BUT, it is kind of unlikely that class and the funeral conflicted --- although that is possible in some traditions.

but -- your buddy's grandparents croak = you are too broken up to go to class.... please.