my wife married a ski nut. she accepted it.
she would call me to tell me all the events each night, but she would never ask me to come home. she would call me to find out what to do about the leaky ceiling. as for the other things you mentionded, my wife knows they are not good enough reasons.
This sounds like my wife.
She will call and give me details of all the day's events, and she might vent a bit, but she wouldn't ask me to come home.
If she did and I gave her the story I posted earlier in this thread, she would accept it even though she probably knows it's a story.
And to be fair and honest, if I told her that story and she still asked me to come home, then I'd know it was a real emergency and I'd be on the road home ASAP.