 That's exactly my point. If he hadn't thought about what he was going to say before his show, then he's not being prepared. But to say that and then talk about, well, I had a bad day at home, or I didn't take out the trash and my wife yelled at me, or to have some lame third-grade excuse that, Daddy, I was tired and didn't do my homework, or Daddy, I had a bad day and was mean to the teacher.