The old days of cutting class/skipping school

[Aunt Marg]

What a rebel I was towards the end of my high-school years, cutting a class here, cutting a class there, leaving for lunch other days and not returning.

Used to have a ball. I'd go window and store shopping, sit at my favourite haunt (coffee place) with other class-skipping friends, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, and chatting, and sometimes I'd take-up a quiet and relaxing place in the park and lay back on the grass, soaking up the afternoon in style.

Looking back on it now, it was my way of recharging my batteries.

I'll bet it's not so easy anymore passing-up classes or school days as it was back in the day.

 

[Camper6]

We used to cut classes and go to a friends house whose father worked shift work. His mother was in a home. We would listen to a ball game on short wave radio broadcasting on Armed Forces radio. Then we would play cards for small stakes money. Wasted days and wasted nights.

 

[Aunt Marg]

We used to cut classes and go to a friends house whose father worked shift work. His mother was in a home. We would listen to a ball game on short wave radio broadcasting on Armed Forces radio. Then we would play cards for small stakes money. Wasted days and wasted nights.

My baby brother talks of skipping and going to a friends place to spend the afternoon playing pool in combination with tipping back a couple of cold ones. LOL!

As big sis to baby brother, I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that dear baby brother had such rebel in him. LOL!

 

[Camper6]

Our gang didn't start serious drinking till they had a job. Beer was expensive. Smoking was roll your own. I never smoked. Hated it. Wanted to be an athlete. A good choice in retrospect from a health standpoint.

 

[StarSong]

My kids' love it when I begin stories of my teens that begin with, "So one day when my friend and I were ditching school, ...."

I had no interest in alcohol as a teenager.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Our gang didn't start serious drinking till they had a job. Beer was expensive. Smoking was roll your own. I never smoked. Hated it. Wanted to be an athlete. A good choice in retrospect from a health standpoint.

From everything I know about my baby brothers extra-curricular escapades related to playing hooky, they used to tap into his friends, dads beer.

I totally remember roll your own cigarettes, because my mom used to occasionally roll her own when money was tight between paydays, which was often.

I, too, was heavily involved in sports all through school, but did smoke, not a lot, but I did.

 

[Aunt Marg]

My kids' love it when I begin stories of my teens that begin with, "So one day when my friend and I were ditching school, ...."

I had no interest in alcohol as a teenager.

ROFLMAO!

I hated beer back in the day, and still hate the taste today, but somehow I always found myself with a beer in my hand whenever we'd all get together and go to the drive-in.

That said, I never had much to do with alcohol in my later teen years, and even less later on in life.

 

[asp3]

Never did it myself. I didn't love school, but I also didn't feel the need to skip or ditch classes. I think that since the bulk of my social interactions outside of my small group of friends was limited to being in the same place with those people (school and classes) there wasn't any desire to avoid that. Also none of my friends skipped classes or anything like that. Most parents would have loved to have had me as their child.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Never did it myself. I didn't love school, but I also didn't feel the need to skip or ditch classes. I think that since the bulk of my social interactions outside of my small group of friends was limited to being in the same place with those people (school and classes) there wasn't any desire to avoid that. Also none of my friends skipped classes or anything like that. Most parents would have loved to have had me as their child.

Let me guess, you brought an apple for the teacher everyday, too?

 

[macgeek]

we cut classes and walked to the local pizza joint to eat pizza and play pinball.

 

[Aunt Marg]

we cut classes and walked to the local pizza joint to eat pizza and play pinball.

Pizza AND pinball?

You guys skipped in style!

 

[macgeek]

that place is still there some 38+ yrs later... happy house pizza and subs. Probably no more pinball though.

 

[Aunt Marg]

that place is still there some 38 yrs later... happy house pizza and subs. Probably no more pinball though.

Wow! You sure don't come across that too often especially today.

Seems a good number of food places are here today and gone tomorrow.

 

[Camper6]

I knew someone that distributed those pinball machines. He told me the maintenance on those machines were prohibitive. Constantly burning out light bulbs and components.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I knew someone that distributed those pinball machines. He told me the maintenance on those machines were prohibitive. Constantly burning out light bulbs and components.

I can believe it.

I remember the flippers would always go on the fritz.

 

[macgeek]

@Aunt Marg friend of mine use to run restaurants in DC.... some failed quickly. he said it's a tough business to compete in and make a profit. happy house pizza was around long before Subway and the big faceless corporations took over.

@Camper6 I would always get that machine that had one flipper that did not work right. lol

 

[Aunt Marg]

@Aunt Marg friend of mine use to run restaurants in DC.... some failed quickly. he said it's a tough business to compete in and make a profit. happy house pizza was around long before Subway and the big faceless corporations took over.

@Camper6 I would always get that machine that had one flipper that did not work right. lol

So glad to see and know.

Do think big chain outlets such as Subway, along with others shouldn't be allowed in certain applications, due to them destroying existing business.

 

[old medic]

Point was made the other day that cracked me up....

Today's kids have it made
I had to skip school to smoke weed
Today, schools are closed and weeds legal.....

 

[MickaC]

Guilty......skipping classes......never a whole day......just classes.

Always ended up in a coffee shop, just off of the school yard.......this place made a fantastic business from kids.....mostly high school.
Parents and relatives, and people that knew us, were always downtown, so we stayed clear from there.
There was a rule, where if we reached over the limit of absent classes, so many per subject, parents were notified.
Thought i was keeping good track, but i miscounted sometimes.
Talk about getting away with murder........Mom had said i was sick.......Hmmmmmmm......thinking, she just couldn't be bothered to mention the issue.
And off i go, trying to keep better track.
I wrote very few exams in high school, so skipping out at times seemed to be a favorite subject.

 

[Camper6]

@Aunt Marg friend of mine use to run restaurants in DC.... some failed quickly. he said it's a tough business to compete in and make a profit. happy house pizza was around long before Subway and the big faceless corporations took over.

@Camper6 I would always get that machine that had one flipper that did not work right. lol

Too many guys banging on the sides didn't help.

 

[Pecos]

My High School was located about three miles from the Mexican border town of Zaragoza where any 15 year old could have beer or hard liquor with his lunch. Sometimes our afternoon classes were rather amusing after a long lunch.

And the enchiladas, tamales, and tacos were excellent.

 

[macgeek]

Today's kids have it made
I had to skip school to smoke weed
Today, schools are closed and weeds legal.....

I know kids that grew weed behind the school. Incentive to come to school every day I guess.

 

[C'est Moi]

Never did it.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Never did it.

Let me guess... you were in Asp3's class? LOL!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Guilty......skipping classes......never a whole day......just classes.

Always ended up in a coffee shop, just off of the school yard.......this place made a fantastic business from kids.....mostly high school.
Parents and relatives, and people that knew us, were always downtown, so we stayed clear from there.
There was a rule, where if we reached over the limit of absent classes, so many per subject, parents were notified.
Thought i was keeping good track, but i miscounted sometimes.
Talk about getting away with murder........Mom had said i was sick.......Hmmmmmmm......thinking, she just couldn't be bothered to mention the issue.
And off i go, trying to keep better track.
I wrote very few exams in high school, so skipping out at times seemed to be a favorite subject.

Yes indeed, a shave of common sense went a long ways as to managing to stay out of trouble when skipping, as you mentioned, steering clear of public places where you could get nabbed or questioned.

I can't believe the school never mailed letters to my folks, because my last year of school I missed many-a class.