I called out from work this morning, actually not feeling well, but it got me to wondering about kids and adults playing hooky. I remember marveling at the idea kids could get away with not showing up to school, probably because I attended Catholic school, which was much smaller and probably more strict than public schools. I was never brave enough to try & pull it off. Tales of “senior cut day” and things like that seemed like fantasies to me.
College, of course, made skipping easier, at least in those classes that didn’t take attendance. Of course the trade-off there is that unless you knew someone in class you could get the notes from, you might have more problems catching up and not having it affect your grade. (And in my experience, you had to watch out for the feeling of “meh, I don’t give a f***” that would generally follow, and lead to skipping a bunch more classes.)
As an adult, I’m lucky enough to work at a place that gives us ample sick time, and also is pretty flexible regarding that whole old-fashioned “if you are not in the office, you are not working” point of view; they’ll accommodate half days, working from home, changing your hours for a day, etc. There’s much less of a need to play hooky than in some jobs I’ve had in the past.
What about you? Ever played hooky, as a kid from school, or as an adult from work? Were you found out/did you get in trouble, or did everything work out like a breeze and you had an enjoyable day?
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