When I was a child...

[LeftyFingerPop]

If we had beef stew for dinner, the next morning, I would do the following:

1) Get a can opener and a can of Campbell's Veg Beef Soup and go into the bathroom.

2) Open up the can.

3) Lock the bathroom door.

4) Start wretching loudly.

5) Throw the can of soup into the toilet.

6) When my mom would try to open the door, I would say "just a minute mom". Then I would hide the can opener and the empty can.

7) Mom would come in and see the soup in the toilet.

8) I would grab my stomach and moan.

9) Day off from school, guaranteed.

[Suich]

1. Smart kid.....I think!

:rofl:

[sammythecat]

2. Nice work there.

An elegant and effective solution to a problem we've all had to face.

Lotta fuckin good it'll do us now. x(

[DS1]

3. I once had a complete failure of an attempt like that

I feigned being ill, Mom made dry toast, I put the thermometer between the slices to fake a fever. It exploded. Mercury all over the plate. There's no getting out of that.

[merh]

4. yeah and when that didn't work

I'd go for the chewing of the alka seltzer tablet - foaming at the mouth used to scare the hell out of my mom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjb2UJZ-5I&feature=related

[surrealAmerican]

6. She was probably afraid you would bite her.

[merh]

9. naw, she knew my bark was worse than my bite

:silly:

[Odin2005]

5. LOL, Brilliant!!!

:rofl:

[Mike 03]

7. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it sounds like... I would just rub snot all over my upper lip, for

whatever reason, that was the primary indication at my school that someone was ill.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I used to put the thermometer next to a light bulb.

Then one day my temperature read 104, and I just didn't feel that warm.

[NightWatcher]

10. When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look but it was gone, I could not put my finger on it now...

[woo me with science]

11. She believed that you chewed your stew

into perfect little cubes of potato?

Amazing. :rofl:

[rcrush]

12. Thats why it hurt comin out.

lol

[woo me with science]

14. bwah! nt

[sohndrsmith]

13. My brother would just hold the themometer to the light bulb of

his bedside lamp. A little bit simpler but highly successful.

I, on the other hand, got the clever idea to go to the bathroom - while mouthing a mercury-filled glass thermometer... (my mother really should have nixed that activity) .

I'd go to the sink, turn the hot water on a stick thermometer under the faucet. After my mother read my lethally high, extremely suspicious temperature, I was immediately and told to zip my coat and get in the car.

My brother didn't share his little method with me for years, the little worm... Drove me nuts.