Video - Desperate Measures: How I Broke My Leg to Skip School

I broke my leg on purpose to avoid going to school. When I was 9, I really, I mean REALLY hated school. I would do anything in my power to get a day off; fake sick days, faking a high temperature, fake vomit and so on. I got away with this for so many years, but people were catching on and getting suspicious. We had a trampoline buried in the ground in our yard, and while I was on it one evening I had a thought; "*if I broke a bone, then I can’t go to school for weeks"*. I was jumping really high, thinking how to do it and I rotated my leg so I would land on my ankle and it would hit the metal frame and springs. I didn’t think it was possible to feel that level of pain. Not just my leg, but all through my body. I landed on the side of my ankle and my whole leg literally cracked. I don’t know how I didn’t do more damage than I did to be honest. Spent the whole night in hospital, and to my delight I was put in a full leg cast, thigh to ankle and sent home the next evening. Funnily enough, it didn’t even give me much time from school… I had one week of glorious breakfast in bed, video games and terrible daytime tv, and then I had to use crutches for weeks on end at school with people constantly trying to draw on my cast.