I agree with everyone on here who has subtely or unsubtely ridiculed your excuse for it's lameness.
I assume you have lost a few days pay for not turning in like most folk, unless of course you were able to read the advice on the emergency holiday scenarios in the various threads last week.
How many weeks holiday a year do you get BTW? i assume as you have ust started the job it is not a lot for this first year, therefore you would not have had many days holiday to substitute, never mind, you probably took them as authorised absence, which should be unpaid too.