If you oversleep your alarm clock and are running late for work tomorrow and you need to come up with a good excuse as to why you’re late, use this one…

Call your supervisor, wait for them to answer and repeat the following:

Good morning, it’s (insert your name here). So, I woke up this morning and as it turns out, Delaware is actually a state! (This is where you have to sound excited and pretend that you previously didn’t know that Delaware is a state and is actually the first state – which you might actually not know.)

Then continue on with how traumatized you were from finding all of this out that you spent twenty-minutes internally debating this with yourself (and your pillow). You would have come to work, however once you start the internal monologue, your psychologist has advised against interrupting the “other” personality.

Let him or her know that you will be in to work once you complete the closing arguments of the debate.

I’ve never used it, but hypothetically this should work. The only reason it wouldn’t is if you live in, or around Delaware. If that’s the case, then you probably haven’t secured a job that requires you to arrive on time, or at all.