What's your best "We'd love to stay but..." excuse to leave an event?

1. In college my room mate used to be straight up addicted to World of Warcraft. His clan had raids twice a week. It didn't matter what was going on, he wasn't getting off that computer for four hours unless it was during one of their scheduled breaks. We'd have parties in the house and he wouldn't leave his room. One night we're having stormy weather and the news says a tornado touched down near us. Everyone runs to the basement like we're told to do. Except him. He just basically ignores us. Finally I hear what sounds like a freight train upstairs, so I run upstairs, see a sideways tree across the street, and yell at him "IT'S HERE GET THE FUCK DOWNSTAIRS!!" He realizes he should go, so he types "gtg tornado" and just runs with me. Apparently the etiquette in this game is that you NEVER just abandon your clan during a raid, so they were all freaking out in surprise. The power went out about 30 seconds later, so he was quitting whether he wanted to or not, but "gtg tornado" became his nickname.
   — Narren_C


2. My husband has diabetes so when I give him the signal he says "I have to go home and take my insulin".
   — biscuit272


3. "We'd love to stay but we have to feed our cat through a tube at 2 hour intervals". For reals, we had to make our excuses at a friend's engagement party because my cat had pneumonia.
   — Mindless_mike






4. A friend of mine actually uses the "I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got ice cubes in the freezer."
   — Charrawazt


5. We better get going if we're going to stay ahead of the weather.
   — wxguy215


6. "We'd love to stay, but we wanna go home and bang instead."
   — JKrieger11b






7. My husband and I once told his friend (who was a guest in OUR home) that WE had to leave because my brothers car died and he needed to borrow our jumper cables. We finally got him and his date in their car, so we made a loop and came back home.....to find them still there, in our driveway. We pretended we forgot....something, got it and left again. We drove back by our house about 20 minutes later and they were still there. It was over an hour later when we finally got to go back home. Fucking asshole seriously did NOT know how to take a hint.
   — sillystephie


8. I cut my foot earlier and my shoe is filling up with blood *hobble away*
   — chibookie


9. Go for the full Bender: "Well, I'm tired of this room and everyone in it."
   — apetc






10. Always have a plan before you go. Preface the acceptance with, "Well, I can't stay because xyz, but I'll come by for a while." Then, if you're having fun and want to stay, you can act like you worked something out for xyz and now you can stay.
    — GalacticHeimat


11. "Diego ate and now it is his bed time" That's what my wife uses.
    — diegojones4


12. We'd love to stay but I have got to go feed our dog!
    — thebabygoose