How to Say "No"
  1. I'd love to, but...
  2. I have to floss my cat
  3. the man on television told me to say tuned
  4. I've been scheduled for a karma transplant
  5. I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture
  6. it's my parakeet's bowling night
  7. it wouldn't be fair to the other Beautiful People
  8. I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it
  9. I'm enrolling in aerobic scream therapy
  10. there's a disturbance in the Force
  11. I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling
  12. I'm teaching my ferret to yodel
  13. I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products
  14. I'm going through cherry cheesecake withdrawal
  15. I'm trying to see how long I can go without saying yes
  16. I'm in training to be a household pest
  17. I'm getting my overalls overhauled
  18. I'm sandblasting my oven
  19. I'm being deported
  20. the grunion are running
  21. my Millard Filmore Fan Club meets then
  22. the monsters haven't turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots
  23. I'm taking punk totem pole carving
  24. I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian
  25. I've come down with a really horrible case of something or other
  26. my plot to take over the world is thickening I have to fulfill my potential
  27. I don't want to leave my comfort zone
  28. I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary
  29. my subconscious says no
  30. I'm giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store
  31. the last time I went, I never came back
  32. I've got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting
  33. I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters
  34. I'm having all my plants neutered
  35. I'm making a video called "The Thing That Grew in My Refrigerator"
  36. I'm attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer
  37. my yucca plant is feeling yucky
  38. I'm practicing for a China tour with a wok band
  39. my chocolate-appreciation class meets that night
  40. my mother would never let me hear the end of it
  41. I reading a book called "Glue in Many Lands" and can't put it down
  42. I'm too old/young for that stuff
  43. I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair
  44. there are important world issues that need worrying about
  45. I have to draw "Cubby" for an art scholarship
  46. I promised to help a friend fold road maps
  47. I'm trying to be less popular
  48. I have to bleach my hare
  49. I'm waiting to see if I'm already a winner
  50. I'm sorry, you know how we psychos are
  51. I have to study for a blood test
  52. I'm observing National Apathy Week
  53. my uncle escaped again
  54. I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar
  55. having fun gives me prickly heat
  56. my palm reader advised against it
  57. my Dress For Obscurity class meets then
  58. I prefer to remain an enigma
  59. I think you want the other [your name]
  60. I'm trying to cut down

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