This made me smile.
One of my later garage bands - I was in my 20's - was with a bunch of guys who I first met when one of them invited me to sit in and just sort of jam and play guitar at their rehearsal. Until the evening was over, I had no idea how much antipathy there was among the other guys toward the singer. So when I was leaving and loading out my gear, the drummer followed me to my car and asked me if I could sing. I told him yes, and he wanted to make sure I could be there for the next week's rehearsal.
So that week, the drummer called the singer and told him that everybody was super busy, they all had a lot of commitments, etc., and so the band was breaking up.
Except they didn't break up, they just had a new singer (me).
Anyway, that became a running joke. "We quit" was a code for "We're replacing you."
That was a couple decades ago. The drummer and I still keep in touch even though we live in different cities. Every year or so, one of us will leave the other a voicemail that says, "Man, I'm really sorry, but we're just super busy and we're not gonna practice for a few weeks..."