Don't Go Bowling with Mom When Your Co-Workers Think She's Dead 6.23K Jeff Neumann 08/23/10 04:19AM Filed to: Bad ideas Bad ideas Work New York Bronx Schools excuses There are plenty of believable excuses for missing work, but pulling out the not-actually-dead dead relative story is always a bad idea. It worked at first for one Bronx school staffer, until she was spotted bowling with her "dead" mom.