I'm contemplating taking a bunch of Ex-lax and then saying, "Oh I'm so sick and I've got the runs so bad that I can't get more than five feet from the toilet, I just can't go."
I will then proceed to tell my mom not to worry I'll dial in and listen over the phone and, since that talks are always the same, I’ll only listen long enough to say that brother pompous did such a great job; that way she will think I actually listened.
By the next morning I'll be A-OK and blame it on a 24hr (Ex-lax) flu.
Heck, I once had a minor case of the sniffles, when the CO was visiting, and was able to blow it out of proportion enough to make my mom think I was sooo sick that I missed the whole weak of craptivity!