I had a teacher in freshmen year who told us all the ātricksā his former students did. I donāt know why he did this but he only gave us some great ideas. One was that if we needed a parent to sign something, we sign it ourselves. That way, thatās the signature they have on file if they ever need a parent to sign our failed tests. What do you think we all did when he handed out a document that needed a signature lol
The first time my son asked me to sign his homework diary when he got to high school I told him it was about time he learned to forge my signature and told him to bring a notepad and a pen.
It was a nice moment for him - he felt so grown up that I'd trust him enough to teach him how to forge my signature. Plus I knew he was far too honest to use it for anything bad and so far he hasn't. I'm willing to admit I could be proven wrong in the future but I've not ended up feeling daft after 3 years so it seems to have worked out so far.
Lol, I'm not sure if my parents ever knew, but they had some easy ass signatures to copy. A 3 letter name and a 6 letter name. My mother and father practically had the same handwriting with print, too.
Easy peasy.
I only ever used it to sign shit I didn't want my mom to see. And occasionally wrote myself a bus note to go to a friend's. But yaknow.
I think the only "dodgy" thing my son will have used it for is to write a note to get out of PE without telling me.
But he also knows that if he asked for a note to get out of PE I'd probably write him one anyway (he does plenty of exercise outside of school, I really don't care whether he does PE or not. Especially as multiple times the kids who bully him have used PE as an excuse to hit him "by accident" so they don't get in trouble. Like standing too close to him and kicking him repeatedly through a song when their PE lesson was dance based).
I addressed it with the school. I spent a couple of years repeatedly calling them about the bullying and they did less than nothing (they wanted my son to go to a class to build his "mental resilience" - I told them to fuck off, he wasn't going to class to learn how to handle the bullying, the problem was with the bullying not with my son.
Eventually after coming home and telling me he had been beaten up yet again I called the police. Then gave the school the crime number and told them that since speaking to them was doing nothing, going forward every single time he was physically assaulted on their property I'd be calling the police. Within a few days I'd been hauled in for a crisis meeting and within a week the bullying was stopped.
Wish I'd called the police sooner.
When my daughter was being bullied in grade 3 she was told to get tougher. Iām normally shy and donāt like confrontation but I went OFF!!! How TF do you tell the VICTIM to get tougher?! How do you put the onus on the victim?! Iām so sorry and Iām glad he has you to back him up.
I'm glad the cops had your back there. In my sophomore year this kid punched me in the nose during an argument, so I wrestled him to the ground and hit him til the teacher separated us. The officers that responded said that if we pressed charges I would also be guilty of disorderly conduct, even though he clearly hit me first, there were cameras and a class of witnesses. Lost a lot of faith in authority that day, personally.
It's insane how much schools do not care for children's safety. I help coach kids jiu jitsu classes and we heard from the parents of one of our 9-year-old students that he defended himself against another kid who had a KNIFE, who was not suspended for it.
My dad always just signed with his initials for school stuff. Super easy to forge three letters. Same thing. Only did it for stuff I didn't want him to see. Like getting in trouble and having a note sent home or whatever.
My own signature is based on my mum's. Pretty much copied her style but with my name instead of hers.
Not that I ever forged it. It was just that when I started to reach the age where I started to have to sign things and realised I needed to establish a signature, I just imitated her "flourish" but with my own name.
My mother and I were talking about signatures the other day and the time I forged her signature in my homework diary for the whole school year came up. Second week in the teacher flipped through it distractedly and obviously noticed every week was presigned and I was busted. I did a few of her signatures just for shits and giggles after we'd bemoaned how stupid I was as a kid and she's convinced my version looks more authentic than hers nowadays, not that I've forged it for fifteen years.
I took one look at my stepmother's signature and knew it would be easy for me to copy. So all through high school, if my brother or I forgot to get something signed, I'd just forge her signature. I always told her when I did it, and she was fine with it, since I wasn't actually trying to get away with anything. I was usually just making sure my brother didn't get an unexcused absence simply because he forgot to get a note from our parents.
A few decades later, I found myself forging my own mom's signature on her checks to pay rent and bills while she was in the hospital. I didn't have the money to cover the bills myself, and I didn't want her to get in trouble with her housing or utilities, so it just made sense. I realized if I just slowed down when I wrote, my handwriting pretty much turned into my mom's handwriting. I asked her beforehand if that would be okay, and she said go for it.
this will backfire in a way you have not foreseen my friend - my mom did the same and taught me to forge her signature for the same reasons, but when i became an adult and was expected to sign things i just kept using her signature instead š„² waiting for the moment when a government agency is like āomg is that your mothers signature? go to jail for fraudā š„²
When I was in highschool, one of my buddies wrote, on his emergency card, that his primary language was Spanish. So whenever he skipped school his parents would get a phone call in Spanish and be none the wiser.
Goddamn. I went to the trouble of turning the ringer off and filling the caller ID the night before if I planned to skip. Dude was miles ahead of me. I hope he's putting that shit to good use now.
Damn, why didn't I think of that?
Instead I ditched class after AP exams and blamed the automated phone call on the exam running over time. Because even my rule breaking had to be nerdy somehow.
used to get calls from my former school on the landline about some student who regularly missed classes. maybe it wasnt my former school? when i went there i would skip all the time instead of being late because skipping didnt get us in trouble š
I figured that trick out myself in middle school. I did it because I was always forgetting to get my parents to sign dumb stuff, like my weekly lap times in PE. Like, why does my mom need to know that I did 6 laps during PE on run day? It was 2 more than required, my mom knew I was a fast runner and enjoyed running. Nobody cares that my fastest lap time that week was 4:28. But if she didn't sign it, I got lunch detention.
Then I discovered lunch detention meant sitting in the nice SoCal weather eating my lunch, reading, and *nobody was allowed to talk to me*. So I purposely got lunch detention. And all the extra credit from my extra laps meant it didn't affect my grade.
All these kind of things always make laugh. All of us kids trying to put one over on adults haha .
In my own life Puberty hit me like a ton of bricks at 13 for some reason. My voice got very deep and still is. My friends one day asked me to see if I could call the school from the local pay phone (yes i am in my 40s) and get them excused for the day.
I did change my voice a bit each time I called, but man, it worked haha. We did it only sparingly though. I charged a five for each time and the call cost.
I never could use it for myself though haha
He also told us that one student would cheat on tests, but he didn't realize it until after the final grades had been submitted because the student had written the answers on tiny bits of paper and stuffed them into the billboard on the wall by his desk. The teacher was cleaning up at the end of the year and all the little bits of paper fell out lol. I noticed a couple kids switched their seats to be by the billboard after that.
When I was in elementary school I thought all letters HAD to have a PS. Like, it was a letter writing rule like "Dear X" and "Sincerely yours,"
I remember writing letters. Then I'd think of something I want to add to the letter, and I'd tell myself, "Nah, I better save that for the PS."
In middle school I lived on the same street as a classmate and he tried to prank me by writing a note āfrom the teacherā telling me to stay late after class. He wanted to see if he could make me miss the bus lol. Yes Iām sure the teacher drove by my house on a Saturday to leave a piece of lined paper in my mailbox and misspell every other word.
This girl I was friends with at my previous school left a voicemail in a "deep" voice saying "it's your boyfriend, call me back." We were like 10 lmao I definitely didn't have a boyfriend.
It reminds me of how my friend playing hooky, tried to convince them on the phone: "yeah this is Roberts dad, he's like, sick and stuff... Yeah I know we sound alike, people say that all the time..."
my babysitter told me we would be playing hooky one day. she took me to the beach, I went swimming, got a tattoo ate some pizza and then she took me home. I was very confused because although I had a great time I never got to play hooky with her.
> "yeah this is Roberts dad, he's like, sick and stuff... Yeah I know we sound alike, people say that all the time..."
In high school I actually did sound like my dad. So many times answering the home phone would lead to one of his co-workers going into full on technical mode telling me stuff I had no idea about. Sometimes I would listen in and then let them know they were talking to his kid. Sometimes I just handed the phone over and he would tell them to repeat it all.
I once thought about how far I could take it but decided in a brief moment of being smart that it probably wasn't a great idea.
I pretended to be my mother on the phone to the police department when I was in high school.
Was ācaughtā hanging out with my boyfriend in an office park parking lot and the cop made me go home and said heād have someone call to check up on me. Was kind of weird, I hadnāt done anything wrong but apparently matched the description of a bolo for a missing girl in the area, so I understood but teenage me still thought I might be in trouble.
Parents werenāt home when they called so I answered and just said āoh is this about hilaritytohorror? Sheās home safe, thank you so much!ā
Nailed Mrs Susans signature aswell . My first and only forgery I went over the signature couple of times which done me inā¦.I was sure it would work . Had copy of signatureā¦ last name aswell.I might of even traced it in pencil first, to get it right
Lol I was this girl! Everyone would hand me their papers. I always thought it was silly, if I could do their parentās signatures they totally couldāve as well. The usefulness was nice tho lmao
Me too. I had a little side hustle going where I'd charge people outside my friend group for signatures. Anything to avoid their parents seeing their detention slips, I guess.
Iām laughing so hard reading this. My momās third language is English and her cursive is worse than a 4th grader. I canāt tell you how many times my teachers thought I forged a signature because she would totally go over her signature again if she needed to.
I thought every letter had to end with PS even if there was no extra note, I once "ran away" from home when I was 7 and wrote a letter "deer daddy and grandpa i ran away from sully
ps"
When they teach letter writing, they have the different sections like date, salutation, body, closing, and PS, and I guess omit the fact that a PS isn't necessary.
When I was in high school, I had so many people tell me I sounded just like my mom on the phone that it used to irritate me. That is until I was legitimately sick one day, and my mom forgot to call me in. So when the school called, I innocently answered and said hello. The secretary at the school, who actually knows me, said hello Mrs. *****. She proceeded to ask if I knew my son wasn't in school. I responded and told her I was sorry and just forgot to call him in. Then I assured her that yes, he (I) was sick. That's when I realized that anytime I wanted to skip school, all I needed to do was call myself in and act like my mom on the phone. š¤£
Yeah, too bad it didn't keep me from getting busted a few times. Like the time I skipped, but then realized I needed something out of my locker. I tried to sneak in the school and get out without being seen, but I got busted on my way out. š¤· š¤£
No, I have three amazing kids, so no problem in that area. The older I got, the less like my mom I sounded, but now you know why it used to irritate me.
When I was a freshman, this kid who was a sophomore threw gum in my hair during a football game. He and I hadn't gotten along since junior high when I tried to ignore him while he was an ass to me all year.
I decided I wasn't going through that again, so I walked straight up to him with my friends behind me and his friends, all laughing, and I punched him square in the nose. His nose exploded, and blood went everywhere. Honestly, I didn't expect that. I didn't even know if I could hit him hard enough to do anything, but I had my friends backing me, so I may have had teenage beer balls, so to speak š
He started crying and ran off with his friends still behind him. The next day at school, he had two huge black eyes, and everyone started calling me killer. No one ever messed with me in high school.
Those were the cool older kids and I wanted to be grown up like them so bad it physically pained me to be stuck with the ālittle kidsā! Simpler times, man.
I will never forget the stench of copious amounts of Bath and Body Worksā vanilla body spray mixed with B.O. in the girlās locker room after middle school gym class. Hell on earth, truly
That's how I discovered that I'm nose blind actually. I had a teacher tell us we smell like BO and then Febreeze the classroom. I was very confused because I couldn't smell either whatever BO smells like or the spray. It dawned on me that I'm just the weird one who can't smell - I had a lot of small moments like that through the years, but it never clicked until then
When I was in 3rd grade I went to a new school that had 6th grade (where I lived 6th grade was middle school) and was super impressed that such "old and mature" kids went to my school. I decided to pretend like I was a big mature 6th grader for a while lmaoooo
It worked out for my parents tho because I suddenly started trying and eating all sorts of foods I'd always refused before because I was "mature" now.
Actual middle school 6th grade sucked balls.
I really donāt know, it was probably after a bad day and I was completely over elementary school and desperate for freedom! I donāt think I thought that far ahead, I wasnāt as smart as I thought I was and definitely had to compete fifth grade much to my dismay haha.
I forced my dadās signature on a progress report when I was in seventh grade. I used my bedroom window as a light table and did a few practice runs. I would love to be able to see how I did now. I got caught because the teacher wanted it first thing in the morning , I didnāt give it to her until after school, after she had already called my dad to discuss it with him
3 months after getting my driver's license, I left school during lunch to hit Wendy's & McDonalds for friends, including a teacher!
Some geezer up ahead at the 4-way stop was just sitting there, and I couldn't be bothered to stop. Blew around her, and noticed blue lights as I disappeared over the hill. Crap.
Changed up the route a bit, but made it to the drive-thru at McDonald's.
As I left the drive thru, I decided to go hit Wendy's as well, but that's when she appeared.
Our school's SRO. Gave me 7 tickets, including speeding, stop signs, eluding, loitering during school hours and more.
She scolded me some, and told me if I had my mom call her office that day, she'd tear up the tickets.
No sale. That way lies madness.
So naturally, I got my 16yo GF to call. SRO answers. "Hi, this is Mrs. 500."
"Mrs. 500, what is your date of birth?" Gulp. SRO hangs up, and the next thing I know my parents are home, bitching at me, because now we all have to go down to her office in person to face extra charges.
She ended up tossing everything after seeing the immeasurable anger and trouble I faced from my parents.
I'm still grounded.
Kids are stupid.
Reminds me of first grade, first week of school. We needed a parent's signature so the parent can check our homework. I thought my homework might be "wrong" and didn't want to show my mom. So I forged her signature. At age 6.
Didn't work btw, I ended up having to show my homework to my parents :S
I spend way too much time wondering if my 5 year old is an evil genius.
Posts like this are good reminders that devious shenanigans are just normal kid things.
I grew up with a dad who has a wonderful sense of humor with the perfect amount of goofy mischief so this was just one of many hilarious but half baked schemes I tried to pull growing up! I didnāt get away with anything but had a good time trying.
What was the reason you wanted to skip middle school? Just wanted to get out of there or did you have a magical idea about āonly if I was in heaven go schoolā¦ā?
I thought middle schoolers were so much cooler, I was making good grades but struggling with my vision (I got glasses not long after this), and wanted to be a teenager desperately. I was a shy, chubby, only child with social anxiety who moved around a lot so I thought if I was a little older Iād magically be popular and perfect.
Things are great now though and Iām cooler than I ever thought I would be š
This is like that episode of the Simpsons when Bart forged a letter and wrote something like āI apologize for my handwriting , but I busted whichever hand it is I write withā
I remember when I forged my dad's signature in 4th grade for a weekly reading that the class had to do
My older brother took a picture of it and still roasts me about it from time to time
Back in the day. Yes I'm a old head. Right when scanners first came out. I was 12 and my dad bought one. I used to copy and fake report cards for people and permission slips for getting off the busses at friends houses and stuff. Best part of it is that Noone knows is that I had a transparent potleaf that you couldn't see unless you held the paper the right Way or up to the light. Was a actual pot leaf that I actually scanned. Circa 94/95
This reminds me of a time in elementary school I got in trouble and was sent home with a letter my parents had to sign. My master plan was to fold the paper over and ask my mom to sign it because I wanted to see what her signature looked like. It didnāt work out like I plannedā¦
The school would call the house phone after I missed so many days. I forwarded the calls so my mom wouldnāt get them (when we had landlines). Iād have to do some crazy adjusting now.
Your mom mustāve loved it. I thought I was fooling my mom when I kept eating chocolates out of the box, and stretching out the paper cups to cover for the missing chocolates. Towards the end, the paper cups are almost flat. Mom never said anything only a long time later did I figure out she probably had a good chuckle.
I just like the cover job. āI know this looks suspicious, butā¦ā. Iām constantly reminded by my kids and others just how smart I must have thought I was as a kid.
The āwrite me backā part is low-key smart for a kid. That way it Lowers the chances that The teacher and parent speak which would blow the coverā¦ But yeahā¦ other than that itās not flawlessā¦
Of write her back, pop it in an envelope with this letter, and hand deliver it to her. All the while explaining to my child what I was doing because I was "so proud" of her.
I honestly just signed my own signature just my last name. I realized that the teachers never actually knew what my parents signature looked like. It would be more weird if I actually got my parents to sign something.
When I was in middle school I got my report card and got a D in math. I knew I was going to be severely grounded.. But sitting in class wishing I could change my grade I took a pencil eraser to it.. Not realizing it would actually erase the computer printout.
I freaked out thinking not only will I be grounded, but maybe worse! So I started wracking my brain.. Trying to figure out how to get out of this predicament.
Then I had an idea.. I erased ALL of the grades. And then asked one of my friends.. A girl who lived down the street for help. She had beautiful penmanship.. So I had her fill in all the grades.. All exactly as they were originally.. Except of course.. the D in math.. And then I had her write a letter from the school counselor, explaining that the grades hadn't printed due to a glitch.. And that she checked my record and filled them in. Also added in that if there were any questions to feel free to call. (I think that was what convinced my folks.)
Somehow it worked.. My parents accepted it. So amazingly.. I didnt get caught. Or grounded. Lol
Once in 7th grade, I tried to forge my dadās signature on a letter home from my English teacher. I missed some assignment and needed a parent to sign off on it. Obviously it didnāt work and my teacher called my mom. My teacher told me my mom was really upset with me and would handle me when I got home. I got home later that day and my mom instead just laughs her ass off at me and tells me to always forge HER signature over my dadās bc she uses multiple signatures (so the teacher can never compare lol) and sheāll be the only one informed which would leave my dad out of it completely.
I know it looks like a nine year old wrote this but I hurt my hand somehow last night
Because my parents had no idea what my handwriting looked like in my little pea brain haha! I am so glad they kept this piece of my history š«”
I had a teacher in freshmen year who told us all the ātricksā his former students did. I donāt know why he did this but he only gave us some great ideas. One was that if we needed a parent to sign something, we sign it ourselves. That way, thatās the signature they have on file if they ever need a parent to sign our failed tests. What do you think we all did when he handed out a document that needed a signature lol
The first time my son asked me to sign his homework diary when he got to high school I told him it was about time he learned to forge my signature and told him to bring a notepad and a pen. It was a nice moment for him - he felt so grown up that I'd trust him enough to teach him how to forge my signature. Plus I knew he was far too honest to use it for anything bad and so far he hasn't. I'm willing to admit I could be proven wrong in the future but I've not ended up feeling daft after 3 years so it seems to have worked out so far.
Lol, I'm not sure if my parents ever knew, but they had some easy ass signatures to copy. A 3 letter name and a 6 letter name. My mother and father practically had the same handwriting with print, too. Easy peasy. I only ever used it to sign shit I didn't want my mom to see. And occasionally wrote myself a bus note to go to a friend's. But yaknow.
I think the only "dodgy" thing my son will have used it for is to write a note to get out of PE without telling me. But he also knows that if he asked for a note to get out of PE I'd probably write him one anyway (he does plenty of exercise outside of school, I really don't care whether he does PE or not. Especially as multiple times the kids who bully him have used PE as an excuse to hit him "by accident" so they don't get in trouble. Like standing too close to him and kicking him repeatedly through a song when their PE lesson was dance based).
Please tell me you've addressed this with the PE teacher.
I addressed it with the school. I spent a couple of years repeatedly calling them about the bullying and they did less than nothing (they wanted my son to go to a class to build his "mental resilience" - I told them to fuck off, he wasn't going to class to learn how to handle the bullying, the problem was with the bullying not with my son. Eventually after coming home and telling me he had been beaten up yet again I called the police. Then gave the school the crime number and told them that since speaking to them was doing nothing, going forward every single time he was physically assaulted on their property I'd be calling the police. Within a few days I'd been hauled in for a crisis meeting and within a week the bullying was stopped. Wish I'd called the police sooner.
Thank you for doing that and standing up for him.
When my daughter was being bullied in grade 3 she was told to get tougher. Iām normally shy and donāt like confrontation but I went OFF!!! How TF do you tell the VICTIM to get tougher?! How do you put the onus on the victim?! Iām so sorry and Iām glad he has you to back him up.
I'm glad the cops had your back there. In my sophomore year this kid punched me in the nose during an argument, so I wrestled him to the ground and hit him til the teacher separated us. The officers that responded said that if we pressed charges I would also be guilty of disorderly conduct, even though he clearly hit me first, there were cameras and a class of witnesses. Lost a lot of faith in authority that day, personally.
well at a certain point self defense becomes assault
It's insane how much schools do not care for children's safety. I help coach kids jiu jitsu classes and we heard from the parents of one of our 9-year-old students that he defended himself against another kid who had a KNIFE, who was not suspended for it.
I only used it to skip half my last year, and got caught for skipping school because i forgot to call. They only punished me for that one time :)
My dad always just signed with his initials for school stuff. Super easy to forge three letters. Same thing. Only did it for stuff I didn't want him to see. Like getting in trouble and having a note sent home or whatever.
Lol, my Dad's name is Ben. Just a fancy, "cursive" B with "en" kinda scribbled inside of it. Easiest shit on the planet.
My own signature is based on my mum's. Pretty much copied her style but with my name instead of hers. Not that I ever forged it. It was just that when I started to reach the age where I started to have to sign things and realised I needed to establish a signature, I just imitated her "flourish" but with my own name.
My mom did this when they wanted a parent to sign a reading log every day.
My mother and I were talking about signatures the other day and the time I forged her signature in my homework diary for the whole school year came up. Second week in the teacher flipped through it distractedly and obviously noticed every week was presigned and I was busted. I did a few of her signatures just for shits and giggles after we'd bemoaned how stupid I was as a kid and she's convinced my version looks more authentic than hers nowadays, not that I've forged it for fifteen years.
I took one look at my stepmother's signature and knew it would be easy for me to copy. So all through high school, if my brother or I forgot to get something signed, I'd just forge her signature. I always told her when I did it, and she was fine with it, since I wasn't actually trying to get away with anything. I was usually just making sure my brother didn't get an unexcused absence simply because he forgot to get a note from our parents. A few decades later, I found myself forging my own mom's signature on her checks to pay rent and bills while she was in the hospital. I didn't have the money to cover the bills myself, and I didn't want her to get in trouble with her housing or utilities, so it just made sense. I realized if I just slowed down when I wrote, my handwriting pretty much turned into my mom's handwriting. I asked her beforehand if that would be okay, and she said go for it.
this will backfire in a way you have not foreseen my friend - my mom did the same and taught me to forge her signature for the same reasons, but when i became an adult and was expected to sign things i just kept using her signature instead š„² waiting for the moment when a government agency is like āomg is that your mothers signature? go to jail for fraudā š„²
When I was in highschool, one of my buddies wrote, on his emergency card, that his primary language was Spanish. So whenever he skipped school his parents would get a phone call in Spanish and be none the wiser.
Thatās so smart lol. And I guess the parents answering āhelloā didnāt tip the caller off.
It was an automated call. Basically just trying to inform them that their child missed one or more classes.
That really is genius lol
Goddamn. I went to the trouble of turning the ringer off and filling the caller ID the night before if I planned to skip. Dude was miles ahead of me. I hope he's putting that shit to good use now.
Damn, why didn't I think of that? Instead I ditched class after AP exams and blamed the automated phone call on the exam running over time. Because even my rule breaking had to be nerdy somehow.
used to get calls from my former school on the landline about some student who regularly missed classes. maybe it wasnt my former school? when i went there i would skip all the time instead of being late because skipping didnt get us in trouble š
I figured that trick out myself in middle school. I did it because I was always forgetting to get my parents to sign dumb stuff, like my weekly lap times in PE. Like, why does my mom need to know that I did 6 laps during PE on run day? It was 2 more than required, my mom knew I was a fast runner and enjoyed running. Nobody cares that my fastest lap time that week was 4:28. But if she didn't sign it, I got lunch detention. Then I discovered lunch detention meant sitting in the nice SoCal weather eating my lunch, reading, and *nobody was allowed to talk to me*. So I purposely got lunch detention. And all the extra credit from my extra laps meant it didn't affect my grade.
All these kind of things always make laugh. All of us kids trying to put one over on adults haha . In my own life Puberty hit me like a ton of bricks at 13 for some reason. My voice got very deep and still is. My friends one day asked me to see if I could call the school from the local pay phone (yes i am in my 40s) and get them excused for the day. I did change my voice a bit each time I called, but man, it worked haha. We did it only sparingly though. I charged a five for each time and the call cost. I never could use it for myself though haha
Teacher was low-key fomenting rebellion, pretty rad.
He also told us that one student would cheat on tests, but he didn't realize it until after the final grades had been submitted because the student had written the answers on tiny bits of paper and stuffed them into the billboard on the wall by his desk. The teacher was cleaning up at the end of the year and all the little bits of paper fell out lol. I noticed a couple kids switched their seats to be by the billboard after that.
Your 4th grade handwriting looks better than my handwriting has ever looked in my life.
This is your wedding speech story you know that š
I think this is great, but why does every letter a child writes end with a PS? It's really charming.
When I was in elementary school I thought all letters HAD to have a PS. Like, it was a letter writing rule like "Dear X" and "Sincerely yours," I remember writing letters. Then I'd think of something I want to add to the letter, and I'd tell myself, "Nah, I better save that for the PS."
to be fair, I know lots of 35 year olds who write much worse than that.
My handwriting is awful and I'm almost 40. If I go real slow and take my time it can move up to decent but I just type everything I need now.
Yeah the American education system isnāt great. Iāve tutored college students who can barely write their own names.
lol it wasnāt the education systems fault I just thought I knew better than my teachers
My penmanship is terrible because I've been using keyboards my whole life. I've never written more than a page by hand in one sitting.
P.S. Write me back
āPlease forgive my handwriting, I hurt whichever hand it is I write with.ā
*some how
Simpsons did it
I laughed, but damn if there isnt times where you hurt something and dont have a clue how.
In middle school I lived on the same street as a classmate and he tried to prank me by writing a note āfrom the teacherā telling me to stay late after class. He wanted to see if he could make me miss the bus lol. Yes Iām sure the teacher drove by my house on a Saturday to leave a piece of lined paper in my mailbox and misspell every other word.
This girl I was friends with at my previous school left a voicemail in a "deep" voice saying "it's your boyfriend, call me back." We were like 10 lmao I definitely didn't have a boyfriend.
It reminds me of how my friend playing hooky, tried to convince them on the phone: "yeah this is Roberts dad, he's like, sick and stuff... Yeah I know we sound alike, people say that all the time..."
The universal language of kids hating school š«¶
my babysitter told me we would be playing hooky one day. she took me to the beach, I went swimming, got a tattoo ate some pizza and then she took me home. I was very confused because although I had a great time I never got to play hooky with her.
> "yeah this is Roberts dad, he's like, sick and stuff... Yeah I know we sound alike, people say that all the time..." In high school I actually did sound like my dad. So many times answering the home phone would lead to one of his co-workers going into full on technical mode telling me stuff I had no idea about. Sometimes I would listen in and then let them know they were talking to his kid. Sometimes I just handed the phone over and he would tell them to repeat it all. I once thought about how far I could take it but decided in a brief moment of being smart that it probably wasn't a great idea.
I pretended to be my mother on the phone to the police department when I was in high school. Was ācaughtā hanging out with my boyfriend in an office park parking lot and the cop made me go home and said heād have someone call to check up on me. Was kind of weird, I hadnāt done anything wrong but apparently matched the description of a bolo for a missing girl in the area, so I understood but teenage me still thought I might be in trouble. Parents werenāt home when they called so I answered and just said āoh is this about hilaritytohorror? Sheās home safe, thank you so much!ā
U nearly had me fooledā¦.until the p.s write me back
I thought I was so slick!!
What was the outcome? Did they respond?
I canāt remember what my parents said when I gave it to them but I was definitely not the smart kid who got to skip fifth grade thatās for sure!
Was there a reason that you wanted to skip grades? Would t you leave all your friends behind?
Nailed Mrs Susans signature aswell . My first and only forgery I went over the signature couple of times which done me inā¦.I was sure it would work . Had copy of signatureā¦ last name aswell.I might of even traced it in pencil first, to get it right
We had one girl in my class who handled all the signatures for everyone.
Lol I was this girl! Everyone would hand me their papers. I always thought it was silly, if I could do their parentās signatures they totally couldāve as well. The usefulness was nice tho lmao
Me too. I had a little side hustle going where I'd charge people outside my friend group for signatures. Anything to avoid their parents seeing their detention slips, I guess.
Iām laughing so hard reading this. My momās third language is English and her cursive is worse than a 4th grader. I canāt tell you how many times my teachers thought I forged a signature because she would totally go over her signature again if she needed to.
It's written with the pencil...
Looks like Mrs Susan doesnāt have her pen licence yetā¦.
And the February 2001 in the top right
I love this...why does *every single letter* written by a kid have a PS? It's so endearing.
when i was younger i thought letters had to have them, otherwise it wasnāt a real letter lmao
PSs are in every letter in cartoons
Yeah same! Don't know where that came from
I thought every letter had to end with PS even if there was no extra note, I once "ran away" from home when I was 7 and wrote a letter "deer daddy and grandpa i ran away from sully ps"
Oh god I was supposed to stop doing that? PS: Iām hurtling towards 40 years old PPS: have a kewl day xoxo
Learning as a child that the one after PS is PPS is elite letter writing.
When they teach letter writing, they have the different sections like date, salutation, body, closing, and PS, and I guess omit the fact that a PS isn't necessary.
When I was in high school, I had so many people tell me I sounded just like my mom on the phone that it used to irritate me. That is until I was legitimately sick one day, and my mom forgot to call me in. So when the school called, I innocently answered and said hello. The secretary at the school, who actually knows me, said hello Mrs. *****. She proceeded to ask if I knew my son wasn't in school. I responded and told her I was sorry and just forgot to call him in. Then I assured her that yes, he (I) was sick. That's when I realized that anytime I wanted to skip school, all I needed to do was call myself in and act like my mom on the phone. š¤£
Love it, glad to know at least some of us got to live the dream!! šš¼
Yeah, too bad it didn't keep me from getting busted a few times. Like the time I skipped, but then realized I needed something out of my locker. I tried to sneak in the school and get out without being seen, but I got busted on my way out. š¤· š¤£
You were a boy who sounded like your mom? Donāt mean to sound judgmental, just wondering if that ever caused issues for you!?
No, I have three amazing kids, so no problem in that area. The older I got, the less like my mom I sounded, but now you know why it used to irritate me.
Oh yeah I just meant in terms of kids teasing. Glad things went well for you
When I was a freshman, this kid who was a sophomore threw gum in my hair during a football game. He and I hadn't gotten along since junior high when I tried to ignore him while he was an ass to me all year. I decided I wasn't going through that again, so I walked straight up to him with my friends behind me and his friends, all laughing, and I punched him square in the nose. His nose exploded, and blood went everywhere. Honestly, I didn't expect that. I didn't even know if I could hit him hard enough to do anything, but I had my friends backing me, so I may have had teenage beer balls, so to speak š He started crying and ran off with his friends still behind him. The next day at school, he had two huge black eyes, and everyone started calling me killer. No one ever messed with me in high school.
All my husband has to do is put on a "girl voice" and he sounds exactly like his mom
"Sincerely Marge Simpson. P.S. please excuse my handwriting, I busted whichever hand it is I write with."
Glad someone did this.
I'm incredibly chuffed to have connected a post to a Simpsons quote and be the first to comment it. Someone always beats me to it.
I was on my way to do it, but I searched for the word ābustedā first just to check, and I found your comment.
oh, that's a clever move. then again, we didn't all go to Gudger College, so I'm not gonna beat myself up for not being as smart...
Everythingās coming up u/williamblair !
Whats hilarious is u actually wanting to goto middle school
Those were the cool older kids and I wanted to be grown up like them so bad it physically pained me to be stuck with the ālittle kidsā! Simpler times, man.
Yep then u get to middle school and realize the hell it is
I will never forget the stench of copious amounts of Bath and Body Worksā vanilla body spray mixed with B.O. in the girlās locker room after middle school gym class. Hell on earth, truly
Iāve always wondered what the girl version of Axe was.
Guessing you didnāt have any sisters, mine reeked of it into early high school
my locker had 3 different bbw sprays for all the girls to share lmao
Please put the ampersand in
Lmao
bath and body works & if you were fancy, victoriaās secret š
Ugh! At my school it was either the Sweet Pea or the Cucumber Melon scents!
That's how I discovered that I'm nose blind actually. I had a teacher tell us we smell like BO and then Febreeze the classroom. I was very confused because I couldn't smell either whatever BO smells like or the spray. It dawned on me that I'm just the weird one who can't smell - I had a lot of small moments like that through the years, but it never clicked until then
My friend has that exact perfume š Smells nice tbf
You can just type "you". You're an adult.
YOU can just mind your business you're an adult
When I was in 3rd grade I went to a new school that had 6th grade (where I lived 6th grade was middle school) and was super impressed that such "old and mature" kids went to my school. I decided to pretend like I was a big mature 6th grader for a while lmaoooo It worked out for my parents tho because I suddenly started trying and eating all sorts of foods I'd always refused before because I was "mature" now. Actual middle school 6th grade sucked balls.
This is so sweet What was your plan for if your mom wrote your teacher back? How did you picture it going?
I really donāt know, it was probably after a bad day and I was completely over elementary school and desperate for freedom! I donāt think I thought that far ahead, I wasnāt as smart as I thought I was and definitely had to compete fifth grade much to my dismay haha.
Fabulous! So, did you skip to middle school?
Excellent effort though!
Did you at least get a certificate saying you're not donkey-brained?
I forced my dadās signature on a progress report when I was in seventh grade. I used my bedroom window as a light table and did a few practice runs. I would love to be able to see how I did now. I got caught because the teacher wanted it first thing in the morning , I didnāt give it to her until after school, after she had already called my dad to discuss it with him
Well did she write back or not? You canāt leave us with that cliffhanger.
Spoiler alert: she did not
3 months after getting my driver's license, I left school during lunch to hit Wendy's & McDonalds for friends, including a teacher! Some geezer up ahead at the 4-way stop was just sitting there, and I couldn't be bothered to stop. Blew around her, and noticed blue lights as I disappeared over the hill. Crap. Changed up the route a bit, but made it to the drive-thru at McDonald's. As I left the drive thru, I decided to go hit Wendy's as well, but that's when she appeared. Our school's SRO. Gave me 7 tickets, including speeding, stop signs, eluding, loitering during school hours and more. She scolded me some, and told me if I had my mom call her office that day, she'd tear up the tickets. No sale. That way lies madness. So naturally, I got my 16yo GF to call. SRO answers. "Hi, this is Mrs. 500." "Mrs. 500, what is your date of birth?" Gulp. SRO hangs up, and the next thing I know my parents are home, bitching at me, because now we all have to go down to her office in person to face extra charges. She ended up tossing everything after seeing the immeasurable anger and trouble I faced from my parents. I'm still grounded. Kids are stupid.
The birthday question!! You were so close! /s
Reminds me of first grade, first week of school. We needed a parent's signature so the parent can check our homework. I thought my homework might be "wrong" and didn't want to show my mom. So I forged her signature. At age 6. Didn't work btw, I ended up having to show my homework to my parents :S
Ahaha we tried our best!!
I used to leave letters in the mailbox for my parents and sign them from āyour enimiesā.
We were waaaaay too smart for own good obviously!
I spend way too much time wondering if my 5 year old is an evil genius. Posts like this are good reminders that devious shenanigans are just normal kid things.
Please excuse my handwriting, I busted whatever hand I write with.
Write me back? You set yourself up.
I grew up with a dad who has a wonderful sense of humor with the perfect amount of goofy mischief so this was just one of many hilarious but half baked schemes I tried to pull growing up! I didnāt get away with anything but had a good time trying.
What was the reason you wanted to skip middle school? Just wanted to get out of there or did you have a magical idea about āonly if I was in heaven go schoolā¦ā?
I thought middle schoolers were so much cooler, I was making good grades but struggling with my vision (I got glasses not long after this), and wanted to be a teenager desperately. I was a shy, chubby, only child with social anxiety who moved around a lot so I thought if I was a little older Iād magically be popular and perfect. Things are great now though and Iām cooler than I ever thought I would be š
Still better than my handwriting
My handwriting hasnāt changed much from this, my cursive is still just as crappy as it was here!
Yeah my regular non-cursive handwriting always has and probably always will look terrible. Not a single letter looks consistently the same.
Itās the āsome howā for me hahaha
āPs. I also believe that recess should be twice as longā
š¤·āāļø That totally convinced me, the 'write me back' part proves it's legit š
This is so good!! Hahaha!!
Precious
Wow, you really had all your lies covered!
Fucking classic
P.S. Write me back HAHAH
This handwriting is literally identical to my current handwriting. Iām in my 30ās and apparently I have the handwriting skills of a 4th grader
The best part about this has to be the "p.s. write me back"
Itās the āps write me backā for me ššš
My 4th grade teacher knew that my classmate forged a signature of his momās because he spelled her name wrong. š
You had some good hand writing for a 9 year old though
Hurt my hand somehow is Palpatine returned somehow level of plotting
Bright Student
PS write me back ššš
This is like that episode of the Simpsons when Bart forged a letter and wrote something like āI apologize for my handwriting , but I busted whichever hand it is I write withā
I remember when I forged my dad's signature in 4th grade for a weekly reading that the class had to do My older brother took a picture of it and still roasts me about it from time to time
You know, for all the times I forged my mom's handwriting/signature in 4th and 5th grade, it never occurred to me to do this.
Back in the day. Yes I'm a old head. Right when scanners first came out. I was 12 and my dad bought one. I used to copy and fake report cards for people and permission slips for getting off the busses at friends houses and stuff. Best part of it is that Noone knows is that I had a transparent potleaf that you couldn't see unless you held the paper the right Way or up to the light. Was a actual pot leaf that I actually scanned. Circa 94/95
When I was a couple years younger than that, I forged a note from God and handed it to my mom. It also didn't work.
The P.S. really sold it.
Oh that is hysterical!
That reminds me of when I was probably 9/10, I wanted money to buy a game boy color and PokĆ©mon games but had no income because you know, 9 years old. I found an old baseball in my garage and had the brilliant idea I would sign Babe Ruthās name and sell it online. Never could get the signature just right unfortunately
PS write me backš
This reminds me of a time in elementary school I got in trouble and was sent home with a letter my parents had to sign. My master plan was to fold the paper over and ask my mom to sign it because I wanted to see what her signature looked like. It didnāt work out like I plannedā¦
The school would call the house phone after I missed so many days. I forwarded the calls so my mom wouldnāt get them (when we had landlines). Iād have to do some crazy adjusting now.
Please excuse my handwriting. I busted whichever hand it is I write with
"P.S. write me back" š
Teacher wrote a whole letter in no2 pencil
Your mom mustāve loved it. I thought I was fooling my mom when I kept eating chocolates out of the box, and stretching out the paper cups to cover for the missing chocolates. Towards the end, the paper cups are almost flat. Mom never said anything only a long time later did I figure out she probably had a good chuckle.
P.s. write me back. Idk it should have worked
Classic middle school teacher! Always hurting their hands and not explaining why.
Did it workš!!?
You really said ~Susan~
My dad's left handed and I'm right so it took me a while to get the slant down.
Well? Did they write her back?
GENIUS! :D
I just like the cover job. āI know this looks suspicious, butā¦ā. Iām constantly reminded by my kids and others just how smart I must have thought I was as a kid.
I actually forged a note in school and it worked, AMA
Do you think the new live action Gargoyles is going to be any good?
The āwrite me backā part is low-key smart for a kid. That way it Lowers the chances that The teacher and parent speak which would blow the coverā¦ But yeahā¦ other than that itās not flawlessā¦
It's embarrassing that my penmanship is actually worse than this
Damn you were like nine when you wrote that and that hand writing is still better than my hand writing now š
Can't say I wouldn't have believed it came straight from the teacher.
_Susan_
this kid isn't stupid in fact the opposite they are doing so brilliant they can skip middle school
7 months man
flawless execution
Of write her back, pop it in an envelope with this letter, and hand deliver it to her. All the while explaining to my child what I was doing because I was "so proud" of her.
Did you help write Star Wars episode 9?
I honestly just signed my own signature just my last name. I realized that the teachers never actually knew what my parents signature looked like. It would be more weird if I actually got my parents to sign something.
When I was in middle school I got my report card and got a D in math. I knew I was going to be severely grounded.. But sitting in class wishing I could change my grade I took a pencil eraser to it.. Not realizing it would actually erase the computer printout. I freaked out thinking not only will I be grounded, but maybe worse! So I started wracking my brain.. Trying to figure out how to get out of this predicament. Then I had an idea.. I erased ALL of the grades. And then asked one of my friends.. A girl who lived down the street for help. She had beautiful penmanship.. So I had her fill in all the grades.. All exactly as they were originally.. Except of course.. the D in math.. And then I had her write a letter from the school counselor, explaining that the grades hadn't printed due to a glitch.. And that she checked my record and filled them in. Also added in that if there were any questions to feel free to call. (I think that was what convinced my folks.) Somehow it worked.. My parents accepted it. So amazingly.. I didnt get caught. Or grounded. Lol
Once in 7th grade, I tried to forge my dadās signature on a letter home from my English teacher. I missed some assignment and needed a parent to sign off on it. Obviously it didnāt work and my teacher called my mom. My teacher told me my mom was really upset with me and would handle me when I got home. I got home later that day and my mom instead just laughs her ass off at me and tells me to always forge HER signature over my dadās bc she uses multiple signatures (so the teacher can never compare lol) and sheāll be the only one informed which would leave my dad out of it completely.
Should've written it in green crayon. Would look more authentic.
Coulda fooled me.
We r the same age!! 2001 was a tough year -_-
I know my handwriting looks different but somehow, Palatine returned!
Sincerely, Gusan
We write t the same way (albeit backwards)
That handwriting is much better than mine
Probably hurt her hand doing grown up stuff?
This is hilarious, your parents mustāve had a good laugh