Ever played hooky in high school?

[bloodyjack]

I did once, toward the end of my junior year.

I got this girl in my class to compose an excuse in 'girly' handwriting for me.

Please excuse Mahayasmellbad.

Today he is feeling nauseous.

Sincerely,
Mahayasmellbad's mom

Prudence pays, right.

[camero]

1. Once. Well twice actually

Went to the parade when the Orioles won the World Series in '83 and roamed the halls on Senior Hook Day in '85.

[JohnKleeb]

2. I wish I could have seen that

:(, however Orioles in 05 :). Ive never done hooky because I am good when it comes to school :D.

[camero]

4. It was a blast

A friend of mine came to the door right before I was supposed to catch the bus and invited me to go with his mom. My grandmom tried to convince me to go to school and my mom overruled her. So I went.

At the parade I was in the front row on the side of Charles St. so I could see everything. Went to school the next day with an Orioles WS t-shirt and a sick note. Needless to say, the teachers knew where I was but they said they would have done the same thing in my shoes.

The way the AL East is going, I think they'll be back soon.

[JohnKleeb]

7. I bet it was

Hey could be, I saw a better orioles team last year.

[MercutioATC]

3. Me? Never.

And I didn't use the mustache I had when I was 16 to buy liquor....and I didn't organize races around my friend's subdevelopment (with passengers on the hoods)....and I didn't...ehrm...nevermind...

[Maiden England]

5. Oh yes

at one point as we were escaping from school, we had this teacher come running out after us trying to stop us, she was a very very fat woman and she almost caught us because it made us laugh so hard, but she didn't.
It was not an isolated incident. Probably one of the reasons I had to repeat high school later on.

[obiwan]

12. But ya graduated. Bravo!

[Maiden England]

22. Yep, in fact went on to become a Doctor

so once a fuck up, not always a fuck up.

[miss_kitty]

6. I rarely showed up for

senior year, part 2. Unless I was extremely high-even then, I only had 2 classes-hardly worth the effort. Never brought a note. I was 18. They were invited to 'bite me' if it was requested. I would also write my own notes and sign my own name:

"Please excuse my absence yesterday. Tara and Phil were going to get it together on 'All My Children', and I could not miss it
sincerely, miss_kitty"
:eyes:

[madrchsod]

8. as many times as i could...

that`s why it took me five years to get the hell out of high school......

[eternalburn]

9. Constantly...

My mature voice for calling in and divorcing parents who never communicated made it quite easy.

[mark414]

10. attached to our report cards was a list of all days tardy/absent

senior year i had an extra page (8.5X11) every quarter

meh, and i still graduated early suckers

[obiwan]

11. No, but I have worked for some major league assholes...

... who obviously did. Talk to any Freeper type and it's easy to see who was in class and who was getting a blow job in the back of Daddy's LTD sixth period.

Sucked all of the brains out of them, it did.

[mark414]

13. not all were freepers...

that's all i'll say

[obiwan]

19. Yeah, you're right. Compassion and all that. I could tell some stories...

[bluedeminredstate]

14. Too many times to count

We had open campus so seniors could leave for lunch and study halls. Dumb idea.
We regularly hit the road to Boston (50 miles away) and cruised the Combat Zone, or went to Fenway and sat in the bleachers - this was back when a you could afford a seat in Fenway - or maybe ate lunch in the North End and hightailed it home by the afternoon.
I've since confessed to my mother, but at the time I never got caught. It was probably the hours I spent practicing her signature...
I had a close call though.. We left school during lunch one day for less than an hour and I smoked pot for the first time then went back to school where I proceeded to pass out cold in the commons.
I had had an early dentist appt. that morning so I said I was allergic to Novacaine (I thought that was pretty quick thinking for the shape I was in, and this was 25 years ago, so they believed me).
Oh, the humiliation a being carried through the commons on a stretcher to the nurse's office by the football players - determined to be the he-men who should carry me! At the time I thought they were coolest dudes in school, and now I was being lugged though the halls like a disgrace to stoners everywhere!
I got over my football players adoration, but never over the embarassment of passing out in front of the whole school.
:dunce:

[Kire]

15. I don't remember playing hooky, but

I've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off a couple of time

[Crunchy Frog]

16. I went to a boarding school,

so that wasn't really an option for me.:)

[BrotherBuzz]

17. Ummm, the beach was an eight mile hitchhike over the mountain

and Red Mountain wine was a buck-twenty-nine a gallon. Times have been better.

[SheilaT]

18. I guess technically

you could say I played hookey my entire senior year, since I graduated a year early.

Actually, my school let me be a senior my third year. But I did drop out of college after one semester, when I otherwise would have been a h.s. senior.

[Bunny]

20. I participated in Senior Skip Day, which occurs right before graduation.

Since I had already turned 18, I was able to write my own excuse!

[kick-ass-bob]

21. I skipped a class so often, it wasn't even funny.

We would wait in the hall for the class roll (done 2x/day) and mark ourselves as present.

Never caught.