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CycloneRulzzz

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Rulzzz here pinch hitting for our Friday OT MVP @Angie. This week's topic was one I pitched to her but she suggested saving it for me to do.

The beautiful weather we had in Iowa last week was giving me "I want to play hooky vibes" ala Ferris Bueller.

So topic is what things would you do if you played hooky for a day from school or for most of us work?
 
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CycloneRulzzz said:
Rulzzz here pinch hitting for our Friday OT MVP @Angie. This week's topic was one I pitched to her but she suggested saving it for me to do.

The beautiful weather we had in Iowa last week was giving me "I want to play hooky vibes" ala Ferris Bueller.

So topic is what things would you do if you played hooky for a day from school or for most of us work?
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Golfing, every time. Just went on Wednesday with a buddy I hadn't seen since last summer who was back in the state to visit his parents.
 
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A real example I did was during the week of Thanksgiving one year, I flew to Spain to visit a friend. Had some meetings in the morning Easten time, like 6 hours ahead for me and just answered anything else on Email.

No one knew the wiser
 
I got to play hooky twice in school went to the farm progress show with my Dad both times.
Adult hooky had too much PTO built up and was approaching the lose it stage, it snowed about 6 inches in the overnite called in sick and went skiing.
 
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If I'm playing hooky, I'm more than likely staying home, working on house projects. As much as I'd like to be on the golf course, I'd probably get caught playing hooky.
 
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CycloneRulzzz said:
If my knees were in better shape that would my choice as well.
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I messed up my elbow a month ago one handing a big bag of dog food out of a shopping cart (flared up my tendonitis). Hurts like hell to swing, but luckily if I pretend it isn't going to, it doesn't affect my swing too much (and it feels basically the same the next day either way).
 
It depends on the time of year/weather but generally I'd go do some sort of outdoor recreation.

If it's winter, it's inside for late coffee and probably purging clutter.
 
We didn't call it playing hooky, but toward the end of the school year we let our boys each pick a day (their "personal day") they could stay home with Dad. He worked swing shift at the time & had 2-3 days off during the week. They had their own day (not shared with anyone else) and got to pick what they did. The one rule was their grades had to be good. They loved it.

Note: It started when our youngest was in kindergarten. He knew it was Dad's day at home. He said he didn't feel good and we had a feeling he was just saying it to stay home. My husband commented to me, "Unless he's throwing up, he's going to school". Well...guess who threw up? My husband took the oldest to school and once the youngest heard the vehicle leave the driveway, he was up and acting normal. When Dad got home, he confessed he threw up just to stay home. We had the "this is not the right thing to do and don't ever do it again talk", though let him stay home for the day.
 
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CoachHines3 said:
i used to chew up a granola bar and spit it out in the toilet to convince my parents i had thrown up and couldnt go to school (3rd grade)

spoiler: i went to school.
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I preferred going to school. If I stayed home and could move at all, I had to do chores and that was more work than school.
 
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I messed up my elbow a month ago one handing a big bag of dog food out of a shopping cart (flared up my tendonitis). Hurts like hell to swing, but luckily if I pretend it isn't going to, it doesn't affect my swing too much (and it feels basically the same the next day either way).
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Have you tried a compression sleeve? I started wearing one to golf last year cause I had tennis elbow (at least that's how I'd describe it). Helps quite a bit for me, not sure if it would help with yours at all.
 
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For me, when I take a random day off, it's usually doing things I want to do at a leisurely pace. For example, rather than getting off work and rushing to the gym, I'd probably do it sometime in the middle of the morning, like around 9. I wouldn't have to rush to cook dinner on time. Things like that.
 
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