We all have those "my dog ate my homework. . . no really, it did" stories. Mine? Just a swan casually on the train tracks so I couldn't make it to work, but J.K. Rowling's latest excuse takes the cake. After Quite Interesting, the fact-finding team for BBC show QI, tweeted out on Thursday, "In April 2016, the Large Hadron Collider was shut down after a weasel fell into it," the author replied, recalling a particularly hilarious and incredibly random reason she couldn't hand in an edit for The Casual Vacancy one time. "I couldn't email my editor final changes on
Of course, Twitter fans couldn't help but get in on the fun and share their equally random "dog ate my homework" stories.
Both the weasel and aardvark now have super powers.
— David Ludwig (@DLudwigMusic) March 22, 2018
Never change, J.K. Rowling.