If I let you go without food, I would remiss in my responsibilities as a parent. remiss in her duties, the waitress forgot to take water to her tables. Since he had been remiss in making his car payments, Marcus was not surprised when his car was repossessed. What is abstraction in programming? Jamie made an excuse for being late. I just ran out of excuses. I have no excuse for not coming home yesterday. I just wanted to say thank you. I just stopped by to say thank you. I really appreciate this. This is great. I really appreciate it. I appreciate you giving me a hand. I would really appreciate it if you didn't tell Dad about this. There are so many books. Can you take all of them all at once? Why don't you take a few today and take a few more tomorrow? You bought too much; I can't eat it all by myself.