Skipping school was fun - especially when we were old enough to drive. But sometimes, we were legitimately sick and had to stay home for the day.
Old millennials will definitely remember actually LIKING the medicine their moms gave them, watching daytime television and the dreaded thermometer check.
See how many old millenial 'sick day' memories you have:
These 'measuring spoons' that gave us just the right amount of the good stuff:
That "bubblegum medicine" we actually liked to take:
These thermometers our moms always stuck under our tongues:
Bob Barker was our buddy, even if we slept through most of The Price Is Right:
Actually getting motion-sickness from playing too much Super Mario Bros:
Waiting for your friends to come online during computer class, so you could chat on ICQ:
Sometimes being sick could get boring. Sure, we didn't have to do any school work or listen to a boring lesson about fractions, but we were definitely missing out on all the things our friends did at recess.
If we were really sick, we had to find ways to entertain ourselves when we weren't puking or sleeping in some Gravol-induced coma.
Who else passed their time like this?
Playing THE MOST ADDICTIVE GAME for hours when you should probably be sleeping:
Being ambitious and eating this for lunch:
But then realizing you made a grave error, so you run in here:
And your mom gives you a plate of these:
With a bowl of the good stuff:
You'd snuggle into bed under one of these:
Or on the couch under one of these:
Then you'd play some of this until your battery ran out:
Watch all of these back-to-back:
Then read some of these before mom came to take your temperature and call you for dinner:
Do you remember these? Share your favorite things to do when you took a sick day from school!