My eighth grade teacher told me this. So back when he was in uni is the setting. It’s Friday, and he and a few buddies have this big test on Monday.
Now, they do need the weekend to study, but they decide they wanna go skiing instead (#justcanadianthings). So, they do go skiing all weekend and don’t study a bit. They decide they’re gonna tell their professor that a tire popped and they were stuck in the mountains and had to skip (keep in mind, this was in the 80’s, not a lot of phones/no internet).
They skip the test day, spend it studying, they go the next day to their professor and explain their ‘situation.’
He says it’s okay, understandable, and that they can do the test now. Seats each of them at each corner of the class. He leaves the class, then comes back with their tests. On the test paper is one question.