I was a notorious malingerer in college during my undergrad.
But one day it caught up to me.
It was one of those early morning classes [7 AM] and I couldn’t get myself to get up on time to make it to class.
So I decided to play hooky. It was also towards the tail-end of the semester and finals were to begin the following week.
It turned out the professor decided to change the final’s date/ day.
So I show up to class to take my final on the date that was on the syllabus and voila, the room was empty.
I’m like whaaat!! So I make my way to the professor’s office and he goes ‘hey there Mr. Ngabu, how goes it?’.
I go ‘I came to take my final and no one is in the classroom. What’s going on?’
He bursts out laughing. He tells me the final was yesterday and says he didn’t see me.
Man, I have never been embarrassed in my life as I did on that day. I wanted to smack the taste out of my own mouth for being so stupid.
Luckily he was nice enough to allow me to take the final in his office and per usual, I aced it. Got an A-.
But I paid a major embarrassment price for it. From that day I never skipped another class again.