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I went to a grade 9 to 12 high school in the Eastbay. It was before the time of electronic record keeping. Heh.
Early in my 9th grade, I stayed home faking some minor illness. The next morning, my mom wrote me a note to present to the attendance office excusing me from school the day before. Well, my late older brother saw the note and pulled me aside offing a valuable suggestion.
He pointed out that his experience showed him that the attendance office kept all excusal notes so they could compare handwriting if they suspected a student was counterfeiting their parents handwriting and signatures. Apparently he got busted faking a note one day.
He wisely suggested that I re-write this note and all future excusal notes in my own handwriting so that for the next four years every time I wanted to skip school I could write the note myself without raising suspicion.
And I did. It worked flawlessly for four years. I didn't abuse it, but skipped school now and then and each time I turned in my note, they stuck it in my ever-thickening attendance folder which was crammed with all my earlier excuse letters.... all written and signed in the same handwriting. There were 3,000 kids at this school and the clerks wouldn't bother calling unless they suspected something and in my case they never did.
That was one of my better scams during high school.
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