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Don't really remember having LOADS of time off but had a pretty bad run with migraines as a child and teenager so had quite a few days off here and there.

My mum wasn't militant or anything but she didn't let me have the day off when I got my first period and I don't know why. I'm still pissed off about that to this day.

a lot of the time I'd go home for lunch and get my mum to call them to say I wasn't coming back. When actually I was just playing playstation and eating chocolate. I was a fat child too.

In secondary school I just skived off for no reason and went into town. Got letters home a few times about it but just made something up.

tbh, back in the day there was fuck all on TV during the day anyway. You got ''Programmes for Schools & Colleges'' in the morning, news followed by ''Watch With Mother'' at lunchtime (OK if it happened to be Trumpton), and then some boring shit like Crown Court in the afternoon. You bits o kids don't know you're born.

But my mum and dad were quite insistent that if you were sick you had to spend the day in bed. No computer games.

As I got older I've took fewer days off. In my first job everyone took the piss with sick leave (one woman took an entire week off because her dog died) so I'd always add on an extra day when I was ill there. In my current place, I'm a hardliner.Last year was pretty rubbish (spent about 2 months in hospital) but this year I have only taken 3 sick days all year - 2 because I had food posioning and was throwing up for 2 days so couldn't have left the house if I wanted to. Yesterday because I was actually ordered by my team head not to come in

School was fine - got to see your mates, the work was a piece of piss, got you out of the house. The only time I was ever off I was proper sick and probably feeling bored as hell.

Now I have a job instead I still don't pull sickies, but I can certainly see the appeal.

it got to the point where in the leavers handbook everyone got in Year 11, my photo was accompanied by the caption "sick note".

Which led to me walking to school, clearly absolutely dying and her having to walk down half an hourlater to pick me up cos I'd vommed everywhere. what a waste of time.

I went through a long run of getting sent home because I had really 'bad headaches' cos of 'my bad eye'. I think I've had like 2 of these headaches in my entire life.

Then again my mam used to let me have actual time off when I was having actual period dramas.

didnt mind school so didnt ever throw a sicky. dont think i actually had a day off all through high school

I did enjoy school quite a bit, but I think the reason it was so easy to go in every day was that I had my morning regime so drilled that I could do it in my sleep and I was always out the door at exactly the same time every day to catch the train. Habit is a very powerful motivator.

and i once had to have a meeting with the truancy officer, which i didnt turn up to.

Touch me

but my parents would definitely have been the NO FUN FOR YOU types. Hardly been ill since as well, though I did have labrynthitis for three weeks one winter. Horrible bug, that.

Not really because I enjoyed it, but because catching up on missed work was an arse-ache.

When I had to have an operation done on my arm I asked if we could schedule it for during half term. The doctor looked at me like I was mental.

I was nine years old.

I'd really stopped trying by then. A couple of my mates were in college, so i'd just go round to their houses, get stoned and watch Mel & Sue.

In juniors, we had to walk to school, so if it was raining, we'd be allowed to stay off. They probably do it by text message nowadays, but back then they'd send the Wag Man round. Feigning earache used to be a guaranteed couple of days off.

did whatever i liked. forged sick note. living the dream, baby.
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which became so bad, as the act went, that he ended up having brain scans and stuff as his mother was worried sick. I imagine that the doctors must have suspected but were unable to say "Mrs Glen's Mum I'm afraid your son is a fibbing lazy little prick and there's nothing we can do to cure him".

I get ridiculously guilty about being off, even when I really am ill. It's pretty dumb, but then I seem to feel pretty guilty about everything.

I used to get appendicitis quite frequently - only the doctors didn't diagnose it as appendicitis and said I was faking until it actually almost ruptured. Good one Doctors.

My Mum even sent me to school with chicken pox. I had been feverish and ill the day before (Sunday) but Monday I woke up kind of feeling OK but with spots all over my face. Thought it was just a breakout of acne. Got more and more horrified looks throughout the day, still made it to hometime though. Had the next two weeks off though on doctor's orders HA! Apart from that it was always a check with the thermometer which was never high. Even if it was, it was only "slightly" and I was told to go in anyway.

Mr brother used to always fake being ill to the annoyance of my parents. One time he did it and they snapped and sent him to school. Turned out he actually had pneumonia…

remember having more because our front door would freeze up and my school was 25 miles away so if I missed the coach i couldn't really get there.

Once though in year 10 I was going ti see the Manic Street Preachers that evening and wanted to get off games so I could go into That London early. so I got my mum to sign a piece of paper, got my friend to scan the signature, and then dropped it on the bottom of a typed letter.

might've used that trick again for a fake sick day or two, now that I think about it

wasn't sick, wanted to stay home and play goonies on my NES. other than that, dunno.

same goes for work. If you feel a bit wrong, stay home. More time is lost with people sick but struggling in, being shite while spreading it about than if they just took a couple of days off.

just used to forge my mum's signature on a note with some piss poor excuse

when i got to A levels and attendance wasn't compulsory mine dropped to like 50% though. that was stupid in hindsight