More assignment “extensions”

I thought my students were bad enough with their last minute assignment extensions, but I never would have predicted this.

Five days after the assignment was due, I receive this email:

Dear Mam,
I am sorry for late reply.
On 28/8/6 monday i was trying to submit my assignment on q: drive around 4 clock when my access was denied and I had emailed my assignment at your address but i got email from you which mentioned about webdropoff box.
If you can tell me how to access it I can submit my assignment again.
I would be thankfull if my assignment can be accepted.

With Regards

The reason why his "access was denied" was that he was trying to submit after the cutoff time. He did email me that night, but of course, the exe caused it to get zapped by the uni email filter. I replied telling him to immediately send it to be through the webdropoff box service (a large section of assignment 0 was devoted to getting them to understand how to use this). If he'd sent it that night, I probably would have overlooked the late submission and marked it ... but to wait _five _days? Tough luck buddy.

If that wasn't bad enough, two weeks after the assignment was due, a student came to see me with a medical certificate stating that she had a 5 day extension. She confessed that she'd "maybe left it a little bit late" to come and see me. Ya think?