Forget "the dog ate my homework": little Maddie here has the best excuse — ever — for not doing her homework last night. In a photo quickly blowing up on Reddit, Maddie's parents wrote her teachers a note stating that she didn't get to her homework last night due to some rather big family news.

Best excuse ever. [1]

It seems her grandfather won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Yeah, we think she should be excused for just this time. As one Redditor commented [2], perhaps her punishment should be bringing her grandpa to class one day!

Try to beat that the next time your child doesn't get to his or her homework!