I think the OP was late and decided to ask for suggestions as to why he was late in the morning, contributing to his lateness
For my normal job, I cant be late because I work for myself. For the miliary, I get there an hour before Im supposed to so Im never late. If you have a normal hourly corporate type job blaming it on traffic/weather works or just make it as embarrasing as possible. Though I would save the embarassing excuse for when you want to skip.
Needed to check the latest stats of my website, which were freshly pouring in this morning... *hehehe
excuse work when it comes to real situation but never cheating...i can be worse... just tell the truth....then their will understand...
Don, lot of time we used this excuses in our school days. I still use this excuse in my office as well.... Yes this excuse is also very famous here in India