Head spinning

When we were kids, my brother and i would always "plan" to fall sick together to skip school. At that time,  I was 8 and he had just turned 4. I am not sure why that day but we wanted to take a day off from school and knew the only way to stay away from school was to fall sick. And so that fine morning, we got fully dressed (to create that illusion of sincerity, you should have seen our faces!) and told mom that we so want to go to school but we were unwell.

Of course mom saw through our wicked and silly plan. But she decided to play with us a little. "Oho my poor babies. What happened?". This triggered the moment of creative brilliance/stupidity...

My brother and i grew up around my mom's sisters. and they always got a day off when they said "head is spinning" because of weakness. I had no clue at that time that it was periods. and thought that if it works for them, it should work for us. 

We both said "head is spinning". I had trained my brother to say this... We were both smiling inside thinking of the genius plan we were executing.

Mom looked at us smiled with the wicked smile of a detective having caught the culprit red handed. And asked "how is your head spinning, is it very bad? show me?"

Like two ballerinas, we both started moving our head in circles and spinning it slowly to show mom 🤦🏽‍♂️. To make things worse, my brother kept looking at me to make sure that he was spinning his head in the right direction.

Nicely we got from her ;)