Oh! I know....

You had a last minute deadline at work and were so busy and under pressure that you forgot to call!

You were walking to lunch on a beautiful sunny winter's day when an anvil fell from the sky and gave you amnesia so you forgot to call!

You were kidnapped from your bed in the middle of the night by hooded strangers, taken to a remote location, tortured, and then released naked and with no phone into the cold mountains and so you forgot to call!

A deadly man eating snake escaped from the zoo and curled up on your doorstep, and you spent all day trying to figure out how to leave your apartment, and so you forgot to call.

You were hit by a car on the way home from work, and you are lying bleeding and broken in a ditch somewhere and you can't call because you are dying!

Why do men do this? If you aren't going to show up for an engagement, can you at least call so we know we don't have to break out the shaving cream and the perfume?