Did you ever mitch from school as a child?

stevejr

...I did but i never really enjoyed it.

The terror of being caught always overshadowed the enjoyment of a school-free day.

Mitch means(to avoid confusion);

Go on the Hop.

Skip school.

Play truant.

Doss.

Daegerty

No, but I did plenty of dossing

MagicMarker

I only did it in the last couple of years of school.

It was awesome, and way too easy.

ballsymchugh

i did once. went to the local snooker club where all the other shams were mitching. got bored after 20 minutes and just went back to school!

TeddyTedson

Very rarely when I first went to secondary, mainly the odd class here and there.
But in the last two years I did it all the time. The school never really cared about 5th or 6th years. They kind of said it was up to ourselves, which is fair enough I suppose. Regret it now though, my leaving cert results are embarrassing.
If I could go back to 5th year now I'd study my absolute ass off.
Hmm, need to stop typing now because I'm depressing myself.
Stay in school kids

jimthemental

Not until college when it actually mattered to be in. Pity I didn't hit the demon drink in secondary a bit harder and I could've got it out of my system.

Buceph

Yeah, did it loads.

Naikon

Pretty often. It's was only in the last 2-3 months of 6th year I decided to just stop showing up at all. Just crammed like fook.
Horrible time, but it worked in my favor thankfully. I don't believe sitting in class is a very productive means of learning.

Pauleta

Twice properly and got caught twice. The 2nd time i got sent for a drugs test because of the people i were caught with plus i was rather suspicious myself with my lethargic attitude and bloodshot eyes . I cant wizz in front of people so i never took the test. I went on the hop for a week when my family went on holiday except from me and my da. My da went to work at 6 and came home at 5 everyday so i just stayed at home and threw on my uniform when he came home.

damagegt

I built a hut on the grounds of my school and mitched at least a 2-3 classes everyweek for 2 years in 5th and 6th.I told them I was very sick in 4th year and that i would be missing days,noone ever asked a question and when it was raining you could break into the old dorms and go back to sleep ahhh they were the good old days..................Im on the dole now

W.Shakes-Beer

I didn't, actually had good laugh there.

My Dad though, bailed outta a school on his first day haha

I like to remind him every now and then.

Chaotic_Forces

Once I did and felt horrible about it. I remember going back to the school the next day and just saying "yeah, I didn't come in yesterday, I don't have a note, there was no reason for me not to come in".

To which the reply was "you're doing all the homework from yesterday and today over the weekend and we'll call it even".

Tayla

Yep, all the time and I got caught which wasn't surprising because I took every tuesday and wednesday off!

Sergeant

I used the excuse that I was training for Galway United Youths to successfully mitch from Religion and Geography for a period of 3 months.

pragmatic1

Loads of times. Was mostly **** though.

Cupcake_Crisis

I ditched the odd class here and there but never an entire day, I was too chicken. Pulled plenty of sickies though!

Dangerous Man

Most of my school life was spent on the hop. Still got my leaving. Still went to college. The man can't keep Dangerous Man down.

dark crystal

Yep.

One particular day, I pretended I was sick. The parents believed me and went to work, so I stuck a mannequin in my bed and set it up to look like I was sleeping and snoring in case they came back.

I then got my best mate to make a fake call to the school and got my girlfriend the day off too.

We had a great oul day in my best mates' dad's Ferrari, touring galleries, eating in fancy restaurants and I even managed to blag my way onto a parade float and sang a Beatles song to the crowd, who did the Thriller dance to it.

The principle suspected I was blagging it and tried to catch me out, but he ended up with the arse of his trousers torn out and a shoe missing, the fool.

Aaah, that was a great day.

stovelid

A fair bit, yes.

I usually just forged sick notes from my mother to cover my tracks.

MagicMarker

dark crystal wrote: »

Yep.

One particular day, I pretended I was sick. The parents believed me and went to work, so I stuck a mannequin in my bed and set it up to look like I was sleeping and snoring in case they came back.

I then got my best mate to make a fake call to the school and got my girlfriend the day off too.

We had a great oul day in my best mates' dad's Ferrari, touring galleries, eating in fancy restaurants and I even managed to blag my way onto a parade float and sang a Beatles song to the crowd, who did the Thriller dance to it.

The principle suspected I was blagging it and tried to catch me out, but he ended up with the arse of his trousers torn out and a shoe missing, the fool.

Aaah, that was a great day.

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Chaotic_Forces

dark crystal wrote: »

Yep.

One particular day, I pretended I was sick. The parents believed me and went to work, so I stuck a mannequin in my bed and set it up to look like I was sleeping and snoring in case they came back.

I then got my best mate to make a fake call to the school and got my girlfriend the day off too.

We had a great oul day in my best mates' dad's Ferrari, touring galleries, eating in fancy restaurants and I even managed to blag my way onto a parade float and sang a Beatles song to the crowd, who did the Thriller dance to it.

The principle suspected I was blagging it and tried to catch me out, but he ended up with the arse of his trousers torn out and a shoe missing, the fool.

Aaah, that was a great day.

So you had to humilate him instead of just lying?

Columbia

Yes indeed, went to Killarney with my girlfriend, ended up at her friend's house playing video games, I think.

Another time I just walked out, and spent the next six hours walking around Tralee absolutely terrified of bumping into my mother. I saw a car the same make as hers and leapt behind a bench.

Yep, I'm a dangerous guy to know.

stevejr

dark crystal wrote: »

Yep.

One particular day, I pretended I was sick. The parents believed me and went to work, so I stuck a mannequin in my bed and set it up to look like I was sleeping and snoring in case they came back.

I then got my best mate to make a fake call to the school and got my girlfriend the day off too.

We had a great oul day in my best mates' dad's Ferrari, touring galleries, eating in fancy restaurants and I even managed to blag my way onto a parade float and sang a Beatles song to the crowd, who did the Thriller dance to it.

The principle suspected I was blagging it and tried to catch me out, but he ended up with the arse of his trousers torn out and a shoe missing, the fool.

Aaah, that was a great day.

And then you married a horse...

policarp

Was supposed to go to school Wednesday afternoons if we didn't play games..
Never went ...

Shryke

Bom bom, chicka chicka.

Novella

Nope, never did. I went to the kinda school that was impossible to mitch from though. If you weren't gonna be in, one of your parents had to ring in the morning to say so or else the principle would ring them.

You signed in when you got to school and I mean the classes were so small, you'd definitely be missed. There were 4 people in my Irish class. Don't think I would've bothered even if I could have gotten away with it though.

jackiebaron

dark crystal wrote: »

Yep.

One particular day, I pretended I was sick. The parents believed me and went to work, so I stuck a mannequin in my bed and set it up to look like I was sleeping and snoring in case they came back.

I then got my best mate to make a fake call to the school and got my girlfriend the day off too.

We had a great oul day in my best mates' dad's Ferrari, touring galleries, eating in fancy restaurants and I even managed to blag my way onto a parade float and sang a Beatles song to the crowd, who did the Thriller dance to it.

The principle suspected I was blagging it and tried to catch me out, but he ended up with the arse of his trousers torn out and a shoe missing, the fool.

Aaah, that was a great day.

Do you have a sister? Because I remember I was down the cop-shop having been pulled in yet again for drugs. I was sitting there waiting to be processed and this chick sits down. She was all bitchy and I told her that she wore too much eye makeup and she, like my sister, looked like a whore.
She threatened to bust my nuts. Anyway she started complaining about her brother and how he was always getting away with shït and mitching school and she couldn't stand it. I eventually calmed her down and we started snogging. Then her mother came to get her. She was well mortified but laughed it off. Nearly slipped down the stairs too.

Good times.

By the way I'm still getting done for drugs.

stevejr

stovelid wrote: »

A fair bit, yes.

I usually just forged sick notes from my mother to cover my tracks.

"Please excuse my writing, I busted whichever hand it is I write with"......

stovelid

stevejr wrote: »

"Please excuse my writing, I busted whichever hand it is I write with"......

You'll go a long way.

stevejr

jackiebaron wrote: »

Do you have a sister? Because I remember I was down the cop-shop having been pulled in yet again for drugs. I was sitting there waiting to be processed and this chick sits down. She was all bitchy and I told her that she wore too much eye makeup and she, like my sister, looked like a whore.
She threatened to bust my nuts. Anyway she started complaining about her brother and how he was always getting away with shït and mitching school and she couldn't stand it. I eventually calmed her down and we started snogging. Then her mother came to get her. She was well mortified but laughed it off. Nearly slipped down the stairs too.

Good times.

By the way I'm still getting done for drugs.

And then you beat up a hooker....

Dudess

Yeah - always got caught though.

stevejr

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah - always got caught though.

Boarding school?...

Paddy_Smith

I did it a good few times during the last two years of school, went on the piss a few times as well.

southsiderosie

Yup. At my high school, if you were in your last year you could get three days off during the semester to visit universities. So one day my friend called in and acted like she was her mom and said a group of us were going to visit a university (we had done this with our parents a few weeks before). So we went to my friend's house in the suburbs...and arrived just in time to see her mom getting into the car to go to work.

Her response?

"I'm two hours late for work. I didn't see you if you didn't see me".

We spent the rest of the day watching old Richard Pryor videos and eating Cheetos.

Her mom was really cool.

Dudess

stevejr wrote: »

Boarding school?...

Nope. A finishing school in Switzerland. :cool:

Storminateacup

I did - yeah. I mitched so much during 5th year (I thought i was in love...) that i was put on attendance report for the entire year of 6th year. Every morning, I used to have to go say "morning" to the principal. That was grand though, because I'd duck out at little break not a bother to me.

PeterIanStaker

I did but not very often, and never did anything interesting while on the hop, just lazed around talking sh!te. Kinda like how I behaved in school really.

bigmouth writes again

the headmaster ritual of keeping more than just a beady eye on me ensured i was almost always on the hop.

not a fan of mothers who stand by their family regardless, as mine duly didn't adhere to but when they don't regardless.. it almost encouraged him to take liberties. where the headmaster of all people becomes the bully, its best to just stay away

Solnskaya

Often, but we never saw it as mitching because we were too busy shoplifting, sort of saw it as work experience:rolleyes:

stevejr

Dudess wrote: »

Nope. A finishing school in Switzerland. :cool:

That would explain your nuetrality and fondness for cheese*





















*Fondness for cheese is purely conjecture:pac:

Sergeant

Dudess wrote: »

Nope. A finishing school in Switzerland. :cool:

Champagne socialist?

bigmouth writes again

i take the 'high fliers' that was your class didn't have time nor reason to mitch then, stevejr.

Dudess

Nah, not really. But I was a bit of a pampered princess - once ended up getting detention on a Saturday morning with a jock, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, a goth girl and a studious lad. We all hated each other at the start, but by lunchtime we had resolved our differences... and I shagged the bad boy.

starviewadams

Yep all the time,even in primary school,remember the guards calling up on a few occasions saying that if I kept up they'd send me to some school for bad kids in Tipperary or somewhere,never followed through though.

Secondary was even worse,but I made a deal with my very sound form teacher to just come in to be officialy marked as 'in' for assembly and then leave again.Used to just stroll out the main door as everyone else went to their next class.Fúcked my leaving up badly though,mainly cos I just wrote funny storys in all my exams.Got a few A's on my junior though surprisingly enough!

The joys of social phobia!

stevejr

Dudess wrote: »

Nah, not really. But I was a bit of a pampered princess - once ended up getting detention on a Saturday morning with a jock, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, a goth girl and a studious lad. We all hated each other at the start, but by lunchtime we had resolved our differences... and I shagged the bad boy.

Did you have a Club sandwich for Breakfast that day?

Will I Amnt

Didn't go to French for the last 2 years of secondary school,it was last class every day so just went home.one of the lads in the class told the teacher I switched to german and me ma just thought I finished at that time,still scraped a pass in the leaving:)

Dudess

For some reason we all looked way older than our age...

stevejr

Dudess wrote: »

For some reason we all looked way older than our age...

Oil of Oldage?

Nothingbetter2d

i mitched more than i attended lol