A spot of bother for girl, six, who faked chicken pox with a pen!
MANY children have feigned illness to take a day off school.
But one cheeky six-year- old took things a little further – drawing fake chicken pox blotches on her face, hands and legs with a permanent marker.
Sadly for Lily Schooley, it backfired. Not only did her parents quickly spot her deception, but the marks remained on her skin for four embarrassing days.
Lily, of St Austell, Cornwall, had noticed some of her friends taking days off for chicken pox and, reluctant to do a spelling test, she decided to try her luck.
So after a tiring day at school last week, she borrowed a red permanent Sharpie, telling her parents it was to ‘do her homework’.
But when she ran downstairs complaining of a rash ten minutes later her parents Charlotte and David struggled to stifle their laughter.
Her mother said: ‘She was stroking her arm. She said “oh mummy, I’m feeling a bit itchy. I’ve think I’ve got a rash”.
‘We turned the light on and she was absolutely covered in it. Me and my husband were aching with laughter, trying not to let on that we knew.
‘She’d been sat on the bathroom floor drawing dots on herself.’
After being told she’d need to go to the doctor by her quick-thinking mother, Lily ran upstairs to try to scrub her spots off.
But she was forced to come clean when the marker wouldn’t wipe off. Her mother said: ‘We went upstairs to find her trying to rub them off with a flannel.
‘We used body wash, soap, hot water, baby oil, alcohol wipes. I think it was hairspray in the end that got it off – after four days.’
Mortified Lily had to wear shorts and a T-shirt in PE the next day, revealing the spots. Mrs Schooley added: ‘She said, “I can’t go to school Mummy because everyone will laugh”. We had to send her in with a letter to say they weren’t contagious or real.
‘Luckily this happened on a Thursday night so she only had one day in school with the spots.’
She said Lily had watched a video on YouTube called Ten Ways To Get Out Of School – ‘so there’ll be another nine to come’.