Originally Posted by
laurie6781 
A simple:
"He didn't feel up to the trip."
Repeated over and over and over and over and over.
Lonelywife, I used to practice stuff like that in the mirror, over and over and over until it felt normal. I prepared and practiced a vague answer for every question I could imagine; it really helped me. Only fellow codie's will understand that the most definitive response for me to master, was "no" as a full sentence.