The perfect excuse

You may have heard about the fake news conference in which FEMA employees posed as reporters to ask softball questions about the SoCal wildfires. Now FEMA regrets the whole thing, of course.

Now comes this from a FEMA guy:

"I did not have good situational awareness of what was happening."

This is my new catch-all rationale for everything I do wrong:

• Pulled over for speeding? "Officer, I did not have good situational awareness."

• Forgot to get milk at the store? "Honey, I did not have good situational awareness."

• Rushed our country into war with shaky intelligence? "My fellow Americans, I did not have good situational awareness."

It just about covers everything.