If the plod accepted that as an excuse I wouldn't have had to freeze in town stuffing mince pies after too much wine; am waiting for the buses to start to collect my car.
LOL @ wildwood! It'll be the same as the last time, it's only the end of one phase of the Mayan calendar, another one starts as soon as this one ends. Remember when all those folk trooped up a mountain waiting for the end of the world, some years back? - they must have felt a bit hard done by when they had to come down again and go and restock at WalMart.