I was 18, just out of high school and had a job at a pizza place where I'd been since I was about 16. First job and all that. Anyway, I got a last-minute opportunity to go on a spring snowboarding road trip (hands down the best time of year for anybody who likes to ride park), and being a little 18-year-old shithead, decided to pull a ''no-call, no-show'' for work.
Long story short, I coincidentally ended up seeing some coworkers on the mountain and mentioning, in a completely non-serious fashion, ''Yeah, just tell Annie (the manager) that I burned up in a car wreck or something (lolzzzz, I know, not funny in retrospect).'' Little did I know that they decided to take that comment seriously....
To say the least, Annie was a little freaked out when I showed up to say hi and apologize about 6 months later.