On the first week of school
As a bunch of scared little eleven year olds, where everything was bigger than us, we didn't set a foot wrong. Would do out best to get where we were meant to be and try not to get lost on the way. All except one kid, I'd been chatting to him a bit between lessons and the like, but when we got to PE there was no sign of him. In the French lesson afterwards he was suddenly there again.

Now this was the in the time before registers were all computerised and preprinted and stuff. On the first lesson the teacher would ask your names and would fill in the register as he went.

What this eleven year old genius had realised is that if he missed the first PE lesson and every lesson afterwards then they would never know he existed. They would never miss him. And you know what, it bloody worked! In one fell swoop this guy managed to get out of every PE lesson for the next five years.

Im am still in awe that this skinny little eleven year old both thought of such a scam and had the guts to pull it off.
(Angus Prune, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 14:13, 2 replies)

I did something similar with the CCF
which is Combined Cadet Force or playing at soldiers, popular in public schools. Did a few weeks, and then told them I'd swapped over to the 'non military' option...but didn't enrol on that. Bingo, Thursday afternoons off.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 23:05, closed)

Didn't his parents notice
There was no PE section on his reports?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 14:58, closed)