skipping school

[Tom]

This young fellow skipped school and got caught.  His daddy brought him to me to give him something to remember so he wouldn't do it again.



After about an hour he said, "Mr Tom, don't you have a wood splitter?"

I said, "Yep".

It took him three days of splitting and stacking before his father decided he would remember it.

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day Tom,

I had a couple of them issued to me as a youngster!  I hated it at the time, but a few years on, I see the benefit of it, as a good whupping would have done the opposite.  Im glad my parents had the skills to deal with it a different way, Im sure Im better off for it.
Cheers
Charlie.

[Bud Man]

Tom  What did you feed him for lunch, or was he up to eating  :D  

[Tom]

I figured it wasn't the time for Peas, Budman.  I took him to Burger King for Whopper, fries and milk shake.  Figured that would help him remember it better.

[Corley5]

That's a good lesson.  So many kids these days don't have a clue what real work is.  Hope it works for him and he keeps his butt in school where it belongs.  How old is the young fella?

[Tom]

Just turned fifteen.

[Paul_H]

I like it. Last May,my 14 year old daughter was having problems at school.The vice principal(a friend) called me in to see if I could take her out of school for the rest of the year.She was to be expelled if I couldn't.She did well in her marks,but had it out with a few teachers and was disrupting classes. >:(
I didn't have much choice but to take her to work,because she was making things hard on her stepmum as well.

I really enjoyed waking her up at 4:45 am each morning.She protested at first till I told her there were people waiting,and they could see her in pyjamas or dressed.Her choice,but we leave in 30 minutes.At work she had to clean and scrape bellypans,parts etc.Load&pile firewood,step n fetch.After a week she was up before the alarm,and ready to go.She came to work for 5 weeks, I told her if she wanted to fart around in school,I wouldn't let her go back.She could work for a living,and learn all about room and board.She tried to call my bluff in early September,by saying she might quit school.I told her we could use the room and board money.($400 a month) ;)
Thankfully she went back to school and has done extreemly well.I enjoyed our time together,and she says, she did too!

[J_T]

My Son graduated high school and wanted a sumer job i put him in the resturant buisness. He was up at 430 finished at 6 at night no time to goof off as he was to tired .Decided there had to be a better way closed up the place moved to Richmound Ky and graduted from EKU. Best money I ever lost in a buisness.

[JoeyLowe]

 ;D  This brought back a memory.  I had just turned 15 and, received my drivers license, and my dad gave me his dad's old VW beetle as my first car.  It had a new paint job and new upholstrey, new tires, etc. Great first car!  But I decided it needed something.

So, I skipped school with a couple of friends three days in a row to "improve the engine performance", which started with drilling holes in the hood of the car to lift the hood off the body about 4 inches for increase air flow.  Boy, was I an idiot.  Anyway, on the second day we finished and on the third day, we took it across state lines from SC to NC to go the big mall in Charlotte.

We get to the mall without a hitch and are riding the escalator up to the second level, when we pass dear old mom and dad riding down the escalator going to the first level.  Gives new meaning to "deer in headlights"

Now my dad was a big strong man and I never seen him get in a hurry about much, but to this day I never realized he could move so fast cause in one smooth motion, he reached across, grabbed me and pulled me over to "their side".  

I didn't see the old VW for a long time after that.  But I did learn the value of hardwork.  You see, for three months afterwards, I was required to spend my weekends shoveling manure.

[Texas Ranger]

I have the other side of the story.  I worked with my dad in his business (aircraft shop) from the time I was old enough to lift a wrench till I finally drifted away when I was 21 or so.  Best years of my life, learned more about work and work ethic in those years than I could have any where else.  And got paid for it.  When I was working part time for him in the summers and weekends while I was in College, he paid me more than the other workers.  I asked him why, and he explained that I did the same job, could be depended on to be on time, and never back talked.  

I had a very good teacher.

[CHARLIE]

My father-in-law was a commercial swordfish fisherman and owned a 53' vessel. He offered a job to my son to "crew" for him the summer of his Junior year in high school. When my son got down there, the swordfishing was not good enough at that time to make it worthwhile to take the boat out. So my father-in-law showed my son how to set and take in nets and let him use his 18' boat an motor. So all summer, my son set 1 1/2 miles of net (salt water fishing in the Indian River) and then picked it up and reset it every 4 hours. He had to repair his nets when a shark tore a hole in it. He would market his fish to the local fish market. He had his 30 cent a pound fish and his dollar a pound fish. From his profits he had to purchase gas and oil to run the boat. Many times when the nets were set, he'd go over to a bay and dig clams, which he got 10 cents each. The whole summer he never got much steady sleep and worked hard. At the end of the summer, he had enough money to buy himself a real nice skateboard and a knife. The biggest lesson he learned was that there had to be a better way to make a living and after high school went off to college and graduated from U. of Minnesota.  This was back about '85.    

[Tom]

Yeah,   Way back in the 1900's.

[Sawyerfortyish]

Ohhh the good old days skip school on friday to follow the trout stocking truck till noon then i had to go to work at dads shop i was on the schools work program in my senior year.  School 1/2 day work 1/2 day mom and dad never caught me! 8) ;D. Everyone always told me these are the best days of your life and someday you will wish you were back in school : Yea right  ::)Boy were they right! ;)