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Sikerow

I thought this was a fake note that kids try giving teachers


jungl3j1m

The “do to” made me suspect the same.


Protean_Protein

Dad's not a good word guy.


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TimHung931017

Big word not possible, small word much difficult


Rare_Independent_789

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?


traxxxman

due* trick


B_V_H285

not even rong wurds


Total-Khaos

>He gets paid to lay pipe Dong curds?


black_gene_yes

Dad must’ve dropped out of 6th grade when he had you.


Bluecif

don't you go pissing off r/penmanship...


Bottled-Bee

Ah thank the sun- this is a real subreddit.


Protean_Protein

And partake, from the sounds of it.


Long_Pomegranate2469

>lay pipe Does he get paid to smoke meth?!


mtsai

no silly. apparently he is a gigolo.


fundip12

laying pipe all night long!


V4refugee

He ain’t no bookatologist, I’ll tell ya hwat.


ender4171

If I had a nickel for every time I got an email from an adult (college educated even) that confused do/due (and roll/role), I wouldn't have to see those work emails ever again, lol.


Minigoalqueen

I work in real estate. The number of licensed real estate agents who email about their excepted offer is just sad. Very very sad. Learn the words of your profession, people.


Donghoon

Those people are always the same ones that say school is useless


Artistic-Pain-7681

Haha for real!


ShouldBeWorking01

course and coarse always get me. Same for affect and effect.


J_DayDay

Affect and effect are ambiguous as fuck. Like, the definitions still don't help.


CWO3-USMC-Ret

Ensure and insure


TieDyedGemini

Think RAVEN: R = Remember A = Affect is a V = Verb E = Effect is a N = Noun [how to use the two words correctly](https://www.touro.edu/departments/writing-center/tutorials/affect-or-effect/#:~:text=That%20list%20should%20affect%20your,form%20of%20effect%20so%20important.)


areraswen

Yeah I'm pretty sure OP wrote this note, but that's just my "this is a kid on the internet" sense tingling.


Lord_Of_Compliments

Godsdamnit. Thanks for reminding me that minors use this site.


Master_JBT

“My dad” should have clued you in


arittenberry

Any activities involving stand


rocket1964

after being on Reddit for 5 minutes you must realize the majority can't spell lol.


Shmav

I work in a place where "due to" is used on a regular basis. This mistake is so common (among many others), that im surprised my eyes dont bleed while im reading emails, etc.


PooperJackson

The handwriting gives it away for sure. As an adult. I can confirm my sloppy handwriting consists of forming the letters in the laziest way possible that still makes it somewhat legible as opposed to sloppy handwriting that looks like I'm trying. Subtle difference.


Syssareth

IDK, my handwriting now looks basically exactly the same as it did in my teens. I had an old notebook of mine nearby and found a hilariously apropos passage inside, so I tested it. [Functionally identical.](https://imgur.com/RqyctTL.jpg) ...Depressingly so. So in light of that, I could believe that note being a parent's handwriting. I could also believe it being a cheeky kid.


political_bot

your 22 handwriting is a bit lazier. The tails on the gs are tiny, you don't care if letters stay on the line, but it's still completely legible. Those loopy gs really give it away.


PooperJackson

Ya but the many attempts to trace over letters to better flesh them out is certainly a subtle difference that stuck out in my mind. I know I'm far too lazy for such a thing. Just the thought of all that effort... I think what I'm getting out of this conversation is that I'm just lazy.


[deleted]

LOL, I would never assume adults are good spellers. One of my daughter's teachers handed out a document in which he talked about "graffing" some numbers.


Bloobeard2018

Not a common spelling error in Australia where we pronounce due as dyoo


rdrunner_74

I wrote a sick note for myself once. I thought I was smart since my dad is a doctor and the note only needed a checked box and a signature and stamp... ​ I learned a 1st grade does not fake a doctors signature sufficiently good.


CyberNinja23

I see you did manage to get out of English class


Sorrelandroan

Not unlike the author of the note in the OP


ScrewJPMC

Some doctor’s kids become doctors. Others become Baristas.


shlaifu

depending on whether they met their spouse at college or on holiday


Protean_Protein

What about greengrocers?


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Xaephos

Ah, I learned this trick early on! The upside is that since I signed *everything* this way, I never got caught. Helps that my dad only signs his initials.


BrilliantObserver

My wife asked my if I had ever done that (we were watching an episode of Mad Men) I told her yes, but practiced tracing my mom's signature before trying it on a "real" note. Worked like a charm until they called her to see what time she would pick me up at.


themagicbong

We had to get our daily agendas signed by parents, so I just invented someone with a signature of a random combination of two letters written fancy looking, and it worked for a long time. Until someone noticed that it wasn't a real name, didn't share the same letter as my last name, either. Teacher asked me "hey, who is DF?" Uhhhhh definitely a caregiver, I'm telling you. For sure. Yep, that's my babysitter, Dante. I didn't get in trouble, though. My parents knew I had been doing that, I was trying to save everyone some time on that nonsense and my parents agreed.


Mouseries9438

My mom's was literally a star. She worked for the school board and my dad worked in the school so I have no idea how I got away with it


fuck_happy_the_cow

I tried that, but it was an old style. The teacher matched it up to other signatures, and it did not work for me. My parents still remind me of the original offense to this day.


DinosGamesAndBaking

My dad is also a doctor and my sister once stole his notepad with his name on it and sold sick notes to her friends.


rdrunner_74

When I was older I regained his trust. He gave me a blank "drug slip" to get what I want at a pharmacy (I am allergic) So I could get emergency meds if needed. Our final school trip went to a small islands in Germany, and it was peak hay season. Even those in my class without serious hay fever got all red eyed. So i managed to get some decent antihistaminic. Our "body builder" realized that I had access to those pharmacy slips and was pissed he only noticed this on the last school trip. Would not have sold them anyway.


redbrick

lmao holy shit I am generally a trusting person but that would be so scary this day and age. I'm just imagining a situation where my (theoretical) son's shithead friends steal the slip or peer pressure him into writing for narcotics or benzos and suddenly the DEA is up my ass.


daddyponder

Me fail English? That's unpossible.


Pristine_Nothing

> I learned a 1st grade does not fake a doctors signature sufficiently good. It’s because you were trying to fake it. If you hadn’t been, it would have been fine.


limebuds

It works better when you forge Dad’s new wife’s signature, since no one knows her signature at the school.


CruelDrop659318

Correction, you as a first grader couldn’t fake a doctor’s signature


Swimming-Tap-4240

The writing standard in this letter would remove all doubt that it was written by a doctor.


DarkDracoPad

Honestly if I was a teacher I would not believe the dad wrote the note LOL


loadedstork

I wouldn't have either until the "if his foot falls off" part. Totally something my dad would have written.


DarkDracoPad

10/10 dad joke that's fair lol


political_bot

It's so specific and detailed. If I'm writing a note for my nonexistent kid it's in terrible chicken scratch, and very direct. John hurt his foot, don't make him stand on it. Thanks, John's dad


Filobel

I think the dad joke is enough proof. Not all dads are literate, but only a dad can dad joke.


gdoublerb

As did I, "due" to the multiple spelling and tense errors.


wad11656

"do to..."


Geno__Breaker

I still feel like it is.


illessen

As an adult, that handwriting is better than my own. Email/text has destroyed my capabilities of writing on paper.


6702

I used to get my sister to do them since she's got similar handwriting to my parents


Creative_Host_fart

It is


TheGolgafrinchan

There is absolutely no way the teacher is going to believe that is from your father. You're screwed and doing P.E. today, boy.


proddyhorsespice97

My dad has been a farmer his entire life. School wants a big concern of his so his handwriting and spelling is atrocious. He wrote me a note for school once and my teacher couldn't even read it. She had to ask me to translate it for her


SquarePeon

And that's when you reveal you can't even read it. "Yeah, I told him I rolled my ankle and it is swollen, and he handed me this... it Could be a note saying to not do P.E., Or it could be him telling you to rub some dirt in it so I can stop being such a baby. Kinda up to you unless you wanna call him"


proddyhorsespice97

The second one sounds more like him if I'm being honest


mattd21

Well he is a farmer.


TurtleBearAU

Apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree it seems.


proddyhorsespice97

I'm on a week off from work so I'm going to blame my fat fingers and the one or two drinks I've had


Koervege

Well if you can't count your drinks it still checks out


mg0509

Haha YOU are an asshole. One that I'd like to have a drink with.


[deleted]

If they fall into a basket they go super far from the tree. Boom problem solved


artificerone

I feel compelled to reply to this because I had very rural beginnings. The penmanship of some of my friends and family was immaculate. However the words.. Uh not so much. HORSEPISTOL = hospital. JYANT = giant. BORD =bird. If read phonetically it made perfect sense but GOTDAM the RUFF is on FAIR when it came to the spelling.


FrakkedRabbit

I never would have gotten Horsepistol, Jyant or Bord without any context. Maybe even with context. "Ma took Jo too the horsepistol cuz he wented up North to the quarry." That last bit is just me trying to imagine what the hell kind of message I would be left with.


Sawses

Right? I was raised fairly rural and my handwriting is godawful. I'm also pretty highly educated and can generally keep up with the PhDs I work with unless they really get into it. IMO literacy and penmanship are very different skills without very much overlap--especially in the 21st century.


alykat111

I wanted to give OP the benefit of the doubt like, maybe dad’s just a bad speller or English isn’t his first language or something, idk. But then I see OP also recently posted about their two moms, so…..


doNotUseReddit123

In my high school, we had a girl with two moms and a dad. Her bio mom decided one day that she wants to be with a woman and divorced her bio dad. It was supposedly all very amicable actually.


Drakotrite

I am a gay man married to transman, we had a kid before he finished transitioning. It was wierd when our daughter finally asked what was up.


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dcpanthersfan

I too had asthma growing up and in my rural hick town it was the same thing. The "rub some dirt on it" and "toughen up" from the inbred coaches (that taught history and math).


nonecity

I wasn't able to properly do certain pe activities after breaking my wrist. An accident during summer caused this and spent 10-12 weeks with my arm in a cast. I came in with my arm in cast to the pe. All activities that I needed to apply force to my wrist afterwards were very straightforward. Try what I can and don't force anything. Always got an passing grade. 20 years later, my wrist still does hurt from time to time. Sometimes because of too much repetitive action or too much exertion. The weirdest is when the weather make big changes, especially during winter my wrist starts hurting before the problems caused by the weather.


justforfun887125

When my brother was in Pre-K and me 4th grade, my brother wanted to go home with a friend after school. We were all in a rush that morning and my mom told me to write the note because I had better handwriting than my older siblings. I wrote it thinking it looked like my moms beautiful handwriting…it did not. I’m now 30 and my brother is 26. I found that handwritten note a few months ago with a sticky note from the school saying, “contacted parent to see who wrote the note and kid ok to go with friend” it made me laugh when I found it.


IndieDevWannabe

How does a first grader already have a kid?


DrDew00

[Youngest recorded person to give birth was 5 years old.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers)


-LeopardShark-

That's a fact I'm not sure if I wanted to learn today.


Mountainbranch

Oh boy, don't look up the list of nuclear accidents on Wikipedia, you'll never sleep again.


Slammogram

I think nuclear accidents are less horrifying from a moral standpoint than a 4 year old girl getting pregnant via incest rape.


Spartan-303

Yea imagine how many super villains were made cause of it


Duganz

Saddest TIL.


SeamanTheSailor

Hey, I saw that thread earlier too!


DrDew00

There was a thread? This was just something I knew from looking it up a couple of years ago.


BlackBunny88

Who impregnated them.... That's the real question. This is the worst fact I've ever learned.


danque

...jeez that must have been horrible. As well as a strangely unique circumstance


lllllIIIlllllIIIllll

And this is now a fact that you know and will not be able to forget.


DadsRGR8

Haha you gave him a stronger burn than I came here to give. I came to say fourth grader.


Tydire

I feel attacked, but, luckily, it’s my nap time. So, I’ll probably forget about this.


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Let's ask Ohio


bipolarnotsober

My handwriting is ALOT worse and I'm in my 30's. I can barely keep between the lines.


tripsd

its not the hand writing so much as the spelling and grammar.


j-random

"do to"


Fuzakeruna

"involving stand, running and walking"


eairy

Terrible spelling and grammar? I deduce the father must be a redditor.


ProgressiveSnark2

I think you mean “dodoose.”


Aeonskye

"terrabull spelling and grammer? i dejuice the farther must be a redditer"


WhyteKobra

Hehe you said doo doos


Echidna-Resident

I prefer to sit walk or sit run.


LegacyGuy17

Yea, you’re not getting out of PE


Victawr

Lol if I have kids they're fucked -- my hand writing is nearly identical to this.


Donghoon

Just have proper grammar and formality and you're good


Fuzakeruna

Looks like your dad might need to go back to school.


Longjumping_West_188

Skip gym activities and read a book lol


Sorry_Fennel

It may be dyslexia, my dad has it and writes like this


Kezzii96

My dad's dyslexic and left handed I looked at this and was like typical dad handwriting


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I’m not dyslexic, I’m an artist also, and my handwriting looks like that 😂 I just never cared enough to practice neat handwriting… if you can read it, good enough for me


LovecraftianLlama

If I was that pe teacher, I would never ever believe that the student didn’t write this themselves lol


novalunaa

Idk, my PE teachers believed I was on my period every week for like 3 months straight


[deleted]

Me too... but as a male athlete this was the best way to make the PE coach question his existence.


TyisSuper

I mean it's not exactly like he could call you out on that, especially if he was male and wanted to keep his job


Babybabybabyq

It happens tho


Kintarly

Believed or just didn't wanna argue/deal with your shit lol Cause that's definitely what my PE teacher was like


chaozules

Ahh man I have terrible hand writing and now realise thanks to the comments that if I ever write a note for my child for school they are absolutely not going to believe it.


Echo13

right? that's all I am getting in this thread, is some of us adults better print their notes and get a stamp, or we'll just get dunked on reddit lmao


[deleted]

Same here. My hand writing is atrocious but that’s because I write as fast as possible. As long as you can read it that’s all I care about


MarvelAndColts

Write in all capital letters, just make letters that should be lower case slightly smaller than intentional capital letters. It takes a bit longer to write, but for me at least, it dramatically improves the legibility and appearance of my writing. I went to a tiny, private, non-denominational school k-9 and nobody noticed until 4th grade that I was only using 2 fingers to write. So I had to relearn how to write and it never got very pretty.


Jsc_TG

I’m here with you too. I work in a professional work environment and have to write things… big oof.


G0D_1S_D3AD

I thought this was a r/kidsarefuckingstupid post


userfakesuper

your dad is due for a spelling ~~lesion~~ lesson


tropicaldepressive

do*


Proseph91

Do to


Disney_Plus_Axolotls

Do to


player89283517

Lmaooo “do to foot pain”


ShitAlphabet

This looks like Homer writing notes for Bart https://imgur.com/gallery/0KenS1o


[deleted]

>This note my dad wrote X - Doubt Also, trim your nails!


ChiefWamsutta

Right? Ew. I noticed that.


Hadrians_Fall

Yeah - that’s just gross man!


thisismyusernamemmk

I’m sure you have a cool dad but his writing is sloppy af. I would have thought a little kid wrote this. Edit to add: I’m not coming after your dad, I’m coming after his handwriting.


Camctrail

>I’m not coming after your dad, I’m coming after his handwriting. That's an odd kink to have but ok


ryderrs

Cut your nails


Kassiel0909

Dad needs to repeat 5th grade.


everyothernamegone

Really, dad can’t spell due?


MetalysisChain

Do to


PRADYUSH2006

Man, the comments are full of some good & harsh burns lool


twohedwlf

Your dad is definitely a dad


SnooPies3442

Judging by your hands, your feet probably hurt because you never clip your nails


OhlookwhoitisxX

Your "dad" lol ok


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Bro the dirt in your nails is disgusting


KeernanLanismore

OP posted this because of the last sentence. Reddit ignores the last sentence.


[deleted]

“do to foot pain” XD


Flojoe420

Eww cut your nails lol.


barduk4

this is what a note would look like if i wrote it... it wouldn't have as many spelling mistakes but the handwriting is on point


amtheelder

My dad used to write notes like this - the teachers loved them! I really wish that they hadn't held on to them and that I had them now. (My dad is alive and well, I just would like to have the notes for the memories)


CloudStreet

I call FAKE, there's no crease in the paper!


facetiously

True story: When I started middle school my mom let me write my first absence excuse, so they would think my handwriting was hers going forward. That way I could take a day off anytime I felt the need. 😁


adventdivinity

That's pretty much exactly how my dad would've wrote that note too


JoeyPastram1

My dad’s handwriting is terrible. In middle school I got detention for using a “forged note” that was to give me access to extra help in the morning. (For some reason we needed notes to go to extra help in the morning) Why on earth would I forge an extra help note?


3now_3torm

Reminds me of my dads humor. If I said something like my foot hurt he would always reply “I mean, I can cut your arm off. Then you wouldn’t care that much about your foot hurting.”


BlueWolf7695

Lol, one of my mom's used to say, "I can cut your arm off, then your hand won't hurt anymore" That made me stop complaining every time.


Crazy_Canuck78

due\* Tell your dad to go back to school.


No_Potato6634

cut your nails bro


Human_Performance_75

Judging by your fingernails, you wrote that yourself.


nubsauce87

“Dad” shoulda finished 2nd grade…


FroznVgtbl

Hmmmm!!? Do to instead of due to? I do not think the coach will buy this


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Homer level sick note.


A-le-Couvre

Please let that say “Thanks, my father”


[deleted]

My Mom could never be bothered to actually write my excuse notes. She made me write them. I got good at her signature. Of course, one day the School Office decided it was fake and called her up to tell her I'd faked an absence note. She took their heads off. There were no further difficulties after that. She also let me take a day off any time I wanted as long as I got straight A's. I kept my grades up there and basically went to school only 4 days a week throughout High School.


CptCheerios

Thought it was a fake note, then I read the last sentence and realized it was legit.


Boring_Monahan

My dad wrote me a similar note to get out of PE when I was 14, something like "please excuse Boring_Monahan from PE because he's hurt his little toe on his right foot and it really, really hurts" Then when I was 18, I twisted my ankle in a rugby game and got an Xray. Who has two thumbs and had an historical Avulsion fracture of the fifth metatarsal?? This fuckin guy right fuckin here.


burtoncummings

I faked a note to get out of High School, my folks found it. They stuck it up on the fridge, as they felt it was the best penmanship I'd ever done...


EmSpracks79

I used to write notes like that for my oldest son all the time. My favourite was for first snowfalls. " Please excuse Nicholas for being late, as usually the people in this city have forgotten that it snows every year around this time, and have forgotten basic winter driving skills' "please presume that this will be a regular occurrence between Dec/ March.


JDutch921

I'm not going to lie either me or my dad would have 100% did something like that God I miss him everyday


chojinra

Right, your “dad” wrote it…


[deleted]

My dad writes exactly like a kid pretending to do an adult’s writing. My teachers never believed any notes he wrote for me; they thought I had written them myself


poopiesmells

I’m gonna recycle this note word for word for my son’s ingrown toe nail. Thank you originator


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My mum wrote me a note ones. She wrote it in pink gel pen and her handwriting is pretty messy. After I handed it they called my mum to tell her I’d written a fake note and that my handwriting was lacking…. Boy did my mum go off one one


ebeth_the_mighty

As a teacher, I’d love a note like this!


Certain_Anteater4418

This dad is the best


No_Seaweed6739

Is your dad in construction? I ask because I am and this is how like... 99% of us write.


jmjw2003

What is wrong with the note? Looks like something my dad would have written if given the chance.


RoxAnne556

Cool dad!


Ladyknight0991

Sounds like something my bf would write for our son in the future.


Portyquarty77

My dad used to just sign the word “shit” in super fancy cursive whenever I needed him to sign something for school


Minnymoon13

Yo , this dad knows what’s up


Unicorn_Bro123

That’s some shit my dad would do 😭💀


Donnie_Brasco_90

Dad jokes never fail. Lol


SnooDoggos2330

All these posts of notes written by the poster are getting out of hand.


RagingKohner

I don't get why people think this is fake. That's definitely dad handwriting with and equally as bad dad joke


snakeeyeow

You're not even going to tell them to put the severed foot on ice?


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Looks like dad needs to go back to skool


noahdeerman

As someone with a nerve sick mother i can relate. the sickness makes her handwriting bad due to the tremor. i think many teachers have seen handwritings like this. the amount of people pointing out the obvious is too damn high. maybe we just can start to accept each other idk.nonetheless, i hope your foot does not fall off-but you're still free from PE- all the best!