We’ve all been there before. In need of a mental-health day. In need of a couple more hours to sleep off that horrible hangover. Or just plain in need of a day away from thinking.

But who wants to wake up at the crack of dawn to avoid talking to the boss and pretend to sound sick?

Now you can plan in advance and leave the early mornings to a message service — call in sick from any place at any time.

Alan and Jill Lougher of West Palm Beach, Fla., launched Call-in-sick.com Oct. 1 as a “cool gimmick” to promote their new business, a message broadcast system. Four days later, their Web site was swamped with requests.

Call-In-Sick is a revolutionary new FREE service that allows you to call in your sick message to your boss or employer from anywhere, any time.

Picture the scenario: You stay out too late on a workday night and decide to call in sick the next day. The next day you drag yourself out of bed at 5am because you know your boss won’t be there to answer the phone.

With Call-In-Sick you can record your sick message the night before then schedule it to be sent directly to your boss’s phone early in the morning without you even getting out of bed!