So this kid sits down in the quad with me and opens his laptop. Through a brief conversation we determine we are both students working on final projects with a looming deadline. He then tells me he is repeating the class. He failed it once before because bed bugs got into the spine of his text book. For some reason that meant he could not finish the course. And since it was a corequiste for another course, he failed that one too. I don't know - if it was me, I'd throw out the buggy book and buy a new one. Now I understand how frustrated some of my professor friends get with stupid excuses from students. I asked him if instead of telling his prof that the dog ate his homework, he said the bugs ate it. He didn't seem amused.