Checkmate For DD

[TheShellBeach]

Reminiscing...........,,,twenty years on:

I recall when DD was thirteen she told me once that she was ill, so I let her have the day off school. Despite having had a "terrible headache and awful period pains" she recovered remarkably quickly and I realised by mid-morning that she'd been having me on.

The next day she asked me for a note to give her teacher, so I wrote the following:

"Dear Mrs. X,

DD was absent from school yesterday because she was pretending to be ill. My investigations suggest that this was very likely because she had failed to do her homework the night before.

Yours sincerely,

The Shell Beach"

Mrs. X was delighted with this missive and apparently pinned it on to the wall in the staff room. DD was less delighted when she discovered what I'd written, but she never tried that one on again.

According to another thread her DD has autism. Seems a very tad unfair to do this if first time ever done

Not a chance I would do to my children. Not. A. Chance

My mum was my greatest ally in my skiving. I wouldn't have survived school otherwise.

This 👏🏻 thread 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 batshit

🤣

How tf have you all jumped to the conclusion her daughter will never trust her again (happened 20 years ago anyway ffs) and that will know her mum has the knives out for her?!

To all of you raising precious little bubble wrapped snowflakes who will never have a dose of truth or reality in their lives, well done on your super soft helicopter parenting that has doomed the next generation to be whinging babies, who will play the victim for the rest of their lives whilst claiming to be triggered and doing a 2 day work week because they don’t want to work any more than that, but will be leeching off you until you die because you’ve not prepared them for the real world!

No, seriously, well done, here’s your trophy 🏆

The DD is 33 years old now. I think if it had had that drastic of an effect the OP would know by now.

My DH still recounts with a laugh the time his mum gave him a note saying 'My son has not brought his PE kit because he is a lazy toad' 😂 DH did not try it again!!

To all of you raising precious little bubble wrapped snowflakes who will never have a dose of truth or reality in their lives, well done on your super soft helicopter parenting that has doomed the next generation to be whinging babies, who will play the victim for the rest of their lives whilst claiming to be triggered and doing a 2 day work week because they don’t want to work any more than that, but will be leeching off you until you die because you’ve not prepared them for the real world!

You can't understand how someone could get "trust issues" from OP's story, but you've extrapolated all this from someone not finding the story funny?

I’m going to take a punt

You don’t have children, do you?

Oh dear God. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Our DDs know they're very much loved and that DH and I provide a very secure safety net for them. However, we've also taught them they sometimes need to roll with the punches and that if they behave like arses they will be called out on it, and rightly so.

End result is we've raised two very self assured, resilient women who (thankfully) don't take themselves too seriously.

The OP is hardly likely to be the most objective person on how her daughter feels

Added to which the Op makes no comment on her current relationship with her daughter

What's wrong with people, can no one be lighthearted anymore? I found it funny and I doubt your daughter was humiliated, it'll have been more of a 'muuuuuuuum' and roll of the eyes response no doubt' response from your DD.

I'll bear your response in mind for when my own DC is old enough to think of skiving school!

But the child in this scenario wasn’t “an arsehole”!

Dear OP,

I once skived off school and got a mate to forge my mums signature on a sick note. The teacher (who didn’t like me because I was the wrong religion) called my mum and asked “Do you know where your daughter was on Friday?”….My mums spidey senses kicked in and she said “yes, thank you I do, OhMonday was at home in bed sick (I was down the shopping centre smoking and looking for boys).

She pulled me aside and told me that I was never to skive again but that if I did I was definitely not to get caught and put her in that awkward position again.

She had my back OP and she’s had my respect for that ever since.

No reference to it ever happening before
the child is autistic

Yes the person who birthed her, raised her and has known her for 33 years is the last person on the planet who knows anything about her.

Weird that you only had ever lasting respect for you mother once she proved to be a liar but ok 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think I have once had a call from school asking for the whereabouts of one of mine, and admitting that I thought I got conned. 🙄
Skivvying needs parental permission otherwise its an hostage situation. 🤐

What's wrong with people, can no one be lighthearted anymore?

What's wrong with people, can no one not find a joke funny any more?

Why are people obliged to find this funny? Does every attempted joke make you laugh?

She makes NO reference to her current relationship

@TerfQueen

no kids yourself. Correct?
what is your relationship like with your mother?

Unusual and nasty assumption to think the relationship has broken down unless explicitly told otherwise

What makes you so entitled that you believe you are DUE information about her relationship with her daughter? Are you THAT starved for conversation in your own life that you hang about on here desperately awaiting scraps of other peoples private lives to paw over?

Op have a one off anecdotal story, you are NOT owed any further information about her children you weirdo! She didn’t ask for advice about her daughter, you’re fuck all else from OP

@TheShellBeach maybe you meant it in a light-hearted way, but I don’t really understand what’s light-hearted or funny about it? Or why it matters so much to you 20 years on? Do you still regularly remind your DD about it now? If so, I doubt she finds it as funny as you do!

Also it isn’t a joke and it isn’t funny. Like there’s nothing objectively witty or funny about it. Your child said she had period pains and didn’t want to go to school and you wrote a weird and socially inappropriate note to her teacher who probably thought ‘what a weirdo.’ You were incapable of communicating with your teen to any normal level and you didn’t even have the decency to make it funny.

And wouldn’t the checkmate be for you? Or do you think your daughter won out of this?