123. Homework

Work has always been a great excuse, ha! ha!

I also do it honestly, because my friends know I work even on weekends, focusing on my students\' performance intensively.

Have a great weekend, see you Jason!

ESSAY: Your friend wants you to go out this weekend, but you don’t want to. Come up with as many excuses as you can, being careful not to hurt your friend’s feelings.
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When I meet that situation, I would excuse using my company like below.

>>When I meet that situation, I would give an excuse using my company like below.
 Sorry, I really want to join going out this weekend, but my boss asked me whether I am able to work this weekend or not since we need to finish an urgent project by this week.

>> Sorry, I really want to join you this weekend, but my boss asked me whether I am able to work this weekend or not since we need to finish an urgent project by this week.

And I already said yes because I didn’t have any other choices to say.
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The first reason, it is my project not the other’s. So I am a person who needs to be work for that.
>>The first reason is that it is my project not the other’s, so I am the person who needs to work for that.
Second, if I said no, he would keep thinking about my disagreement and my promotion chance might be reflected by him owing to the rejection following next year.
>>Second, if I said no, he would keep thinking about my disagreement and my promotion chance might be reflected by him owing to the rejection next year.
But, I think I don’t need to say to my friend about the reasons because he already knew I often do overtime work.

>>But, I don\'t think I need to tell my friend the reasons, because he already knew I often do overtime work.

Thus, he might understand my situation and won’t get any disappoint feeling.

>>Thus, he might understand my situation and won’t get any disappointed feeling.

It’s because I use to use this excuse when I need to refuse the other’s suggestions. And they felt pity feeling to me instead of getting hurt feeling.
>>It’s because I use this excuse when I need to refuse the other’s suggestions, and they felt pity towards me instead of getting hurt.
Hence, sometimes, I appreciate that I do overtime work since it gives me a polite excuse.

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