r/classicwow • u/Bagofskates • Dec 03 '24

Humor / Meme What's the most unique excuse you've heard for leaving a raid?

A few years back (can't remember the exact raid, version, or server), we were midway through a raid after downing a couple of bosses. Suddenly, one of our newer guild members, a gnome mage, if I recall correctly., chimes in on voice chat: "Sorry guys, I need to go. My girlfriend has just shaved."

We were all a bit confused at first, but then it hit us. Booty call had higher priority than the raid. It became an instant classic in our guild and gave us some great laughs.

You got any good ones?

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

I once had a guy afk because "my fish jumped out its fish tank".

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u/Darkfirex34 Dec 03 '24

I believe it. My old IT professor kept an aquarium in the classroom and one morning we found the eel made a leap for freedom and died in the bushes outside the window.

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

Whoa!

42 wallaby way?

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u/Homunkulus Dec 03 '24

If your water isn’t good they start taking chances with whatever else is out there. It’s really common, appropriate filtration isn’t.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Dec 04 '24

This isn't entirely true, it depends on the species. A lot of fish just love to toss themselves out of very clean tanks as well, likely the size I guess but they're perfectly fine with a fitted lid. Some fish are just jumpers.

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u/Echoes_in_Shadow Dec 04 '24

You telling me that little bastard actually "aimed for the bushes"?

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u/Darkfirex34 Dec 04 '24

Yes. We found his slightly shriveled corpse draped over a few of the branches. I'm kind of surprised none of the birds got him.

He was being fed mostly cafeteria food and the chicken bones from our professor's leftovers though. I'm not surprised he offed himself.

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u/Echoes_in_Shadow Dec 04 '24

Damn, that got even darker

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u/Kruse002 Dec 04 '24

That eel was a little too inspired by Finding Nemo.

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u/Indianamals Dec 03 '24

My fucking betta would do this. He survived for hours one time and I found him when my toes touched a sticky, damp, wriggling thing. Roger lived three more years after that

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

Go Roger! You're a tank mate!

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u/pissedinthegarret Dec 04 '24

man some fish are just fucking suicidal i swear

i had one entirely disappear a few years ago. searched like a madman through the whole tank and room, but never found him. weird as hell

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u/iCantLogOut2 Dec 04 '24

I found out that in heated tanks especially, apparently the decomposition happens so fast that the bacteria can literally disappear them bones and all within the first five days. So by day 2, most of them is already gone. And what's left is hard to identify.

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u/pissedinthegarret Dec 04 '24

he was fine in the morning before i left. i came back at noon and he was gone!

tank wasn't even heated. can it happen that fast?

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u/iCantLogOut2 Dec 04 '24

Unfortunately my experience with the topic is limited to two instances and a lot of research after the fact. In both scenarios for me, it was probably <36ish hours and relatively small fish.

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u/grugru442 Dec 04 '24

yeah this happens with a few different types of fish man

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u/JMHorsemanship Dec 04 '24

Whenever I don't want to do something I always say "sorry, I gotta go walk my fish" 

Works every time 

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u/soemtiems Dec 03 '24

I had a roommate with fish that would do this. 

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u/octopoddle Dec 04 '24

Probably a DPS's fault for pulling aggro.

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u/Right-Maximum8716 Dec 04 '24

I've said many times 'BRB my fish is drowning'

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u/iCantLogOut2 Dec 04 '24

This one is actually really valid. Betas especially have a really bad habit of doing this.