A holiday?
A national tragedy?
A birthday?
An anniversary?
BTW: The GUY is the one with the ability, right, not the one who caused him to stay behind?
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)