Alternatives To "I Want To Spend More Time With My Family"

[KittyWampus]

Poll question: Alternatives To "I Want To Spend More Time With My Family"

Hearing "I want to spend more time with my family" as an excuse for leaving office is getting REALLY old?

What's your suggestion for something new? (Some are from another blog)

[brokensymmetry]

1. The book thing.

Hey, it should cover you for at least a couple years until you can find a job flipping burgers!

[agingdem]

3. How about...

I know a whole lot more than I admitted to at the 9/11 hearing, and, I might be the one who gave up Valerie Plame to the Rovian Rats...

[stickdog]

2. I want to spend less time with the BFEE. (nt)

[thebigidea]

4. "I am going to explore macrame in all its incarnations."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. I want to work for the defense industry and make millions off of a puffed

up war that's turned into FUBAR with no end in sight that sucks money out of the US treasury at the speed of lightning.

[David Zephyr]

11. That's The Answer.

You can say that again.

[DemoTex]

6. "I am going to make a real mark on the world"

"I am going to expose the BFEE for what it really is."

Dream on, DemoTex!

[Leprechan29]

7. I voted for it but...

It might be intersting to say someone has a burning desire for a sex change operation

[mark0rama]

8. Looking forward to getting out of the public eye..

...so I can resume my consumption of illegal drugs and pornography.

[NNadir]

9. I have always wanted to winter one year in Antartica.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. Going indy-prod

(Setting up a deal as an independendent producer; this is the cliche career move of a studio head who's being cashiered.)

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Reading the writing on the wall, up close, held by the back of the neck

with his face smushed against the carved message...

[Sparkly]

13. Told my wife I could quit anytime I wanted to -- thought she meant my job

[jobycom]

14. I've been gauranteed a pardon if I fall on my sword for the head cheese.

And you don't want to know what they'll do to me if I don't.

[KamaAina]

15. The doctors tell me I have a cold.

The classic, from the late Soviet era. (Chernenko, Andropov, etc., in rapid succession.)

[union_maid]

16. Need time to save my soul

Beginning to worry that there might be a hell and I might be on a road to burn for all eternity.

[berry]

17. Well, if we take him at his word,

besides "I want to spend more time with my family," he said he was leaving because he was concerned about the welfare of his family. And he focused on his son especially.

Am I the only one who wondered if he had been threatened in any way? Oh, I know it's tinfoil-ly of me. But I couldn't help wondering....