At one Juno Awards ceremony in the 70's Gordon Lightfoot won a Juno, as he was winning them like crazy in those days... and it was his sister Beverly that went up on stage to accept it for Gordon who couldn't be there... What did Beverly tell the audience Gordon was at home doing ?
I'll vote for washing dishes because if my brother ever put me in that position, I'd have told the whole world he was at home darning his old gray socks.
I saw this Juno Awards back in the mid 70's, but can't recall the exact year. It was before I owned my first VCR (1980) But I always remembered his sister Bev accepting it & saying something like Gord is at home doing (washing) the dishes... and she smiled.
I know it was in his drinking days as we read about it in the papers more times than one. So Im pretty sure my brother said something like he must be passed out drunk @ his home.