Arts said:

In three weeks we fly to the Maldives, I had it perfectly timed to leave tuesday night and return the following monday night so I didn’t miss a teaching day (tuesdays for me). But then the stupid airline decided to change a flight, which would have left us in KL for 24 hours… we managed to get a better connecting flight leaving on the Wednesday now… but that left us with a day less in the Maldives… so after bargaining with the airline they gave us another return flight… however it truly fucked me over for work… so the dilemma was a day less or two days longer at the same price, and I have to explain to my boss why I cannot teach that week…

I am currently asking ChatGPT for elegant responses to my boss.

You’re in hospital for minor surgery that day. And you rather not explain what it is. It’s a private issue.