Excuse pre-loader

The art of managing expectations by explaining, before something goes drastically wrong, the extenuating circumstances which will make this turn of events, if it is indeed the way the events turn, inevitable. Whilst excuse pre-loading will have much to do with the actor’s profound insecurity about his own ability to do what is expected of him, the extenuating circumstances will never include his own rank incompetence.

The football player who shows up with a slight hamstring strain; the worker who seems locked in a daily battle with her childcare or the same train timetable that others manage without fuss, is an excuse pre-loader.