One of the weirdest excuses I have had same day as a I'll take it message is (I am sorry I cannot make it I forgot about my mom's funeral) how do you respond back to that? I said sorry for your loss good luck prayers with you I will hold it for you I never heard anything back from them.
Tell him that's no reason to cancel a meeting. Y'all can sell a gun over back by Oliver and Edna Hossenfeffer's granite monument while the preacher yaps on and on about Mom.