Have you ever shammed out of work or school? What did you do during that time? Did you get in trouble?

I skipped a good part of my first semester of University. We went to a friend’s place and played poker, and a few times would go to Cheri Champange’s (strip club) with the boys. I managed to pull off good grades, though.

When I was in high school they started a program in which seniors who didn’t need any more credits didn’t have to take a seventh class in the day and could leave after sixth period. I needed the credits, but I was going to fail my seventh period class, I had done the math, I was doomed, so I stopped coming. I ended up with Saturday work detail for three weekends in a row.

Attending school is useful to learn how to differentiate between a noun and a verb.

I cut school once in high school, but my school was really small (like 75 students), so obviously they noticed my absence. I was in the process of making a leisurely lunch at home when I heard the garage door—my mom coming home to see where the hell I was. Got totally busted on that one and never tried it again.

I generally only call off work if I’m feeling sick because I feel way too guilty about lying.

I’ve never shammed my current job because I like it, but I have with other jobs. One time I called in sick so I could go to our fantasy football drafts. Other times I just woke up and didn’t want to do anything so I would say “I ate at Taco Bell last night…”

I’m assuming sham is equivalent to skipping?

I hate to be a party pooper, but I have never skipped school or work unless I was ill or one of my children was ill. I do sham housework all the time in favor of Fluther, though.

(“Sham” is either a noun or an intransitive verb. No such words as “shammers;” and “shamming” is not a transitive verb unless you believe that you can invent words whenever you feel like it.)

@kikibirdjones There are quite a few definitions.. but yes… skipping out of work.. whether for a short period of time, or a day or whatever.

@gailcalled Now I’m fairly positive on this one. You never were a shammer or a shammist or a pick-an-actual-english-word-that-isnt-slang were you?

ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t .. it’s killing you isn’t it? mwahahahahahahaha

@gailcalled i am in ur dictionaries

My high school had an automated system that called home when a student skipped. So if I ever wanted to skip school, I couldn’t go anywhere afterward because I had to sit around waiting to intercept the call. My parents were real sticklers about attendance. Once I think I had the flu, but I never found out because they thought it was “just a cold” and sent me to school.

I skipped school in college sometimes. My art history class was in a refurbished movie theater that the school had purchased. The teacher was really boring, it was early in the morning, and it was warm and comfy in there. I fell asleep a lot in that class.

Well I do get “sick” enought to go home quite often, and if I am tired “I play up on that. Never get caught. I know how the system works :)

The first and only time I ever skipped school my twin brother and I went to the mall, played video games, bought and ice, and rented “Ferris Bulers Day Off”.

When we got called down to the office the next day we said we had never skipped before and wanted to before we graduated. When they found out what we did, they excused it.

We were pretty vanilla.