Action words

Walking into class late with my friend, I tried to keep the left side of my face hidden from the teacher so that I could inform my friend with a wink that I was keeping the truth from the teacher.  The teacher then asked "why are you two so late today?", he did not have time to make up a story so he just shrugged his shoulders and and lloked at the teacher with a blank stare.  I gave him a quick elbow nudge and whispered "getting gas".  He then quickly answered, "We were late because we had to stop and get gas this morning and then we got pulled over by the police."  After he answered her question I was bitting my lip nervously and astonished with the second half of his response to the question.  "why did you tell her we were pulled over by the police?"  He said, "because that is more time."  What an idiot.  This was not even a believable lie but luckily my teacher didnt ask any mroe questions.