You Always Get Caught

In 5th grade, dad wanted to get out of class, so he asked to be excused to go to the bathroom. When he got there, he decided he wanted to fool around and got the soap out and played what he called "The Soap Dish Game". I guess it’s when you get the soap wet and see how many times you can get it to spin around the sink bowl. I'm finding as dad tells me these stories, he had QUITE an active imagination. Anyway, he took quite a long time before getting back to class, so when he did his teacher Mrs. Jackson (Prehistoric Jackson is what they called her because she was so old) confronted him on why he was gone so long. What to say? What to say? "I got sick and threw up," he quickly made up and she totally believed him! She sent him straight to the nurses’ office, so he could rest and feel better. He thought he was pretty smooth and was pretty excited to be getting out of class. A little white lie never hurt anyone right? And, now he could get out of class and enjoy some time relaxing in the nurses office. BUT, another boy in school had TRULY gotten sick and puked all over the hallway. The Bingham principal (he couldn’t remember her name) went up to dad and started interrogating him about whether or not HE was the one who had puked in the hallway. He tried to claim his innocence, but knowing he was going to be blamed for something he didn’t do, he folded like a house of cards and confessed that he didn’t actually get sick at all and had made the whole thing up to get out of class. He was spanked a lot by that principal and sent back to face his teacher. Don't know if they ever found out who REALLY puked that day. Maybe it was Merrill getting dad back. ;-)