A candid request
Most lawyers have asked for an extension or continuance at some point, if not many points, in their legal careers. Legitimate reasons for the request abound. 
But few such requests are quite so blunt in their honesty as a request to reschedule oral argument filed in a bankruptcy court in the Sixth Circuit. That request stated:
Comes now the Appellant, by counsel, and moves the Court to reschedule the Oral Argument currently scheduled for August 1, 2007. The grounds for this motion are that undersigned counsel will be out of town in Oregon, on a 350-mile bicycle trip from July 30 through August 4, 2007, for no other reason than to please his wife. Counsel assures this panel that Oral Argument would be more enjoyable than the aforementioned bike trip.
No word on whether the request was granted.
Not that I am suspicious or anything, but speaking as a wife, I kind of wonder whether counsel was hoping it would be denied. “But honey, I can’t help it. I asked, but the Court just won’t let me move the date of the argument....”
Hat Tip to The New Legal Writer and Legal Antics
