Did you ever have a "Ferris Bueller" day off from school?

jetsonx

One regret which I have from my school days is that I never had a "Ferris Bueller" day off...

I never "went on the hop" for a day and that is something that I will always regret.

So, did you ever have a "Ferris Bueller day" off from school and what did you do?

The_Valeyard

Yeah, the very odd time. Usually down to the chipper or hiding out in the local woods and hoping to f*ck your parents never found it. Only in early summer though, never in winter.

listermint

jetsonx wrote: »

One regret which I have from my school days is that I never had a "Ferris Bueller" day off...

I never "went on the hop" for a day and that is something that I will always regret.

So, did you ever have a "Ferris Bueller day" off from school and what did you do?

Yes many times. Usually to a pub in town.

Oh the days

Ihatecuddles

I left the house, walked down the road, waited for my parents to leave for work and went back to bed.

TheBeardedLady

Often. Too often tbh but never got up to anything as glamorous as he did; it usually involved smoking in the freezing cold in a derelict house with no windows down by the beach in my hometown.

Hercule Poirot

Schemed off school loads of times - but never had a "Ferris Bueller" day off because I'm not an ignorant little sh1t like he is

Menas

We mitched a lot in leaving cert year. Usually down the pub after lunch on a friday when there was just 'study' periods in our timetable.

Rabbo

I skived off to go to see Ferris Buellers Day Off in the cinema but was bitterly disappointed and went back to school

Banjo String

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I left the house, walked down the road, waited for my parents to leave for work and went back to bed.

Yes, I'm guilty of the exact same thing, on many an occasion.

Always shıt myself when the house phone rang though..... (is this school calling, or the parents.... Have I been rumbled.....) etc.

The Backwards Man

I put an Escort van on blocks on stuck it in reverse once, bastard of a thing fell off and cleaned a wall.

eviltwin

Yep, went in for the first twenty minutes, feigned illness and got to go home. Went into town with my best friend who had done the same thing. Had a great old time of it. Got back home in time to arrive at the house half an hour earlier than normal, told the daddy I'd left before the final class as I was feeling ill. He wrote me a note to cover that class that I used to cover the day. Never got found out.

CJ Haughey

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I put an Escort van on blocks on stuck it in reverse once, bastard of a thing fell off and cleaned a wall.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

heldel00

When I left school, my sister (who is 2years younger than me btw) used to head out for the bus, hide in the ditch, wait until parents had left for work, head back in and have the house to herself until 5:30pm that evening!!
Raging that I never had the gumption to do it but on the other hand, she hid in a shuck for an hour once or twice a week! I'd have just gone to school if I was her!

Banjo String

CJ Haughey wrote: »

That makes no sense whatsoever.

You( blatantly obvious) haven't watched the movie mentioned in the thread title so.

efb

6th year. Never mitched. Took the train to Galway headed out to UCG

SweetChaos

I did once and got caught and was grounded for months never did it again

Kids nowadays cant do it as easy because the parent gets a text message from the school if they don't come in :pac:

Wasn't an option, since I went to boarding school. I'm not sure I'd ever have done it anyway.

RWCNT

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

Schemed off school loads of times

Havn't heard that expression in ages, love it.

The Backwards Man

Speaking of high school movies, The Breakfast Club is thirty years old next month, scary stuff.

applehunter

No.

Iranoutofideas

In primary school myself and two of the lads went off for the day down by a river, great craic, skipping stones, smoking, walking along a disused railway track, blazing sunshine. Couple of hours seemed to stretch forever. Good times.

lertsnim

Quite a bit. There was a girl in school who would do the sick note for 2 fags. I never got caught. It was much easier back then with no internet or text messages for a parent to be contacted on.

dreamers75

"mitched" for 3 months in a row, got caught by pure accident, bitches i mitched with from a girls school were busted by a teacher on mitch patrol and i was there

Ended my term at school sitting outside the principals office for 2 months, not allowed go to any classes. Twas my Leaving year and between me and the school being dicks I had no classes from october till exams.

4 Honors, 4 passes, 1 NG (Irish wrote my name on exam and left after 30 minutes not sure what i was rebelling against)

Ice Storm

Funny to see this thread as I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off last night for the first time in years. I'd forgotten how great the museum scene is. The music is an instrumental version of The Smiths song Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpRcZNJAnE

In answer to the OP.. in 6th year, a couple of friends and I skipped out on a mandatory school mass one afternoon. We just hung out at my friend's house.

I wasn't very rebellious at that age. I think I would have been too worried about getting caught to properly enjoy mitching. I was a bit like Cameron in that regard.

NotYourYear20

jetsonx wrote: »

Did you ever have a "Ferris Bueller" day off from school?

As intricate? No. But I had my share of opportunist days off.

Senna

Loads of times but mostly those were just days I said I was staying at home, by leaving cert I think my parents figured it was my choice.
One particularly good Mitch when I was 16 was 4 of us heading to the local pitch and putt course on a lovely sunny day, spent the morning playing that and then the attached pool hall opened at lunch time. We realised one of the locks on a pool table hadn't been secured and we could reach in and take back out the 20p coins, so about 3 hours playing pool for free and we cleaned all the 20p from it, about £20 in total.
I worked in a hotel close to the pool hall so we took the coins over and got it changed to notes, split it up and got our separate buses home.

Oyva bigwan

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I put an Escort van on blocks on stuck it in reverse once, bastard of a thing fell off and cleaned a wall.

YOU ROCK

Arsemageddon

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

In primary school myself and two of the lads went off for the day down by a river, great craic, skipping stones, smoking, walking along a disused railway track, blazing sunshine. Couple of hours seemed to stretch forever. Good times.

Did you get a leech attach itself to your goolies and find the body of a dead kid?

mynamejeff

Went on the hop the day we got our junior cert mocks results ,

into pub in town convinced the auld dude bar man that we were leaving cert students and got served beer and alcho pops all afternoon

thinking back , how the fudge dd we get away with it !

spent most of 4th year on the hop too.

Mesrine65

listermint wrote: »

Yes many times. Usually to a pub in town.

Oh the days

Ditto, or the Dandelion market

GalwayGirl26

Only dossed from classes once, but skipped after school study most days.
Kind of ironic now that I supervise after school study and end up calling parents if I get any suspect notes from home!! Feel like a rat!

Galwayguy35

Yeah, lots of them.

Hated school with a passion so on the fine days would pass the time in the sunshine we seemed to get a lot of back then.

William F

Use to never go in on Mondays, I hated them. My parents were always away early Monday mornings so there was no one there to check up on me. Use to stay home watching the History Channel and eating cereal all day. Probably learned more at home than I did in that stupid excuse for a school.

Teyla Emmagan

Mitched once in my life and got caught. I wasn't a very successful Ferris.

Menas

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Speaking of high school movies, The Breakfast Club is thirty years old next month, scary stuff.

I loved that movie when it came out. Watched it recently though...it has not aged well.
But Molly Wingwald ...Gggrrrrr.

Markcheese

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I put an Escort van on blocks on stuck it in reverse once, bastard of a thing fell off and cleaned a wall.

Did the speedo read 88 mph in reverse gear ?

dueaug

Myself and a friend were giving out about having to go back to school after lunch one day saying if we had the money we would head into town instead. Found a tenner at the lights to cross to the school looked at each other and just ran past the school gates

Turtyturd

Yep, most times ended up in Dr Quirky's or Barneys.

Puibo

Arsemageddon wrote:

Did you get a leech attach itself to your goolies and find the body of a dead kid?

Probably still looking for that jar of pennys too!!

ButtersSuki

In secondary school in Galway and was repeating the leaving as I was too young at the time to enter the course I wanted to do (I started school at 3). Had the points for my course so I spent my year basically playing sport and dossing. Had some craic. Met a girl at a career fair in the RDS and started seeing her regularly so for the few months we went out i'd hop on the train in Galway, head to Dublin, meet herself who was also on the hop and just hang about and do "stuff", incl obligatory Ferris Bueller style museum visit. On said visit we were looking at a picture of flowers and she said "I could do better than that". The artist? Picasso. How we laughed....

Fun times indeed. Didn't get caught. Maybe that's overstating it, I went to the Jes. Anyone who knows it will know the staff were shall we say "relaxed" to put it mildly! Your education was your own responsibility not theirs so as long as your grades were fine you could get away with murder.

boobar

Yes, Ferris Bueller days off were very common in 1970s Ireland...

There wasn't a weekday where adolescent males weren't spotted wearing trench coats driving classic cars with attractive young women.

Andy-Pandy

I only went on the hop once from school, I went to the Rathdown sports day. Bunking off school to go to an all girl schools annual sports day is worth the risk, even if id been caught nobody would have really minded. Great day had if i remember.

Grayson

There's no reason you can't still do it. Pull a sicky from work but arrange a load of interesting stuff to do. you could even get a cheap flight to london (or somewhere else) and fly back the same evening.

Make it the most epic sicky ever.

cloud493

One of the times, we bunked off, spent the day in the local playground, hanging out, smoking, thinking we were awesome. About 1 in the afternoon, we were sitting on the swings chatting, and suddenly noticed our entire year, along with 5 teachers including our year head, entering the playground. Never before have I run so fast.