Forgive my lack of happiness, but life has given me a bigger share of troubles, trials, and tribulations than it did to the silent voyeur sitting a row behind me.

Forgive my lack of fancy words, but my mother was too broke to buy me that thesaurus, the one that was just like yours.

Forgive my lack of beauty, but the sheep refused to jump over my bed last night, or any night before that, and I wasn’t able to reap the benefits of sleep.

Forgive my lack of excuses, I could only come up with 3.