I never forged my mom's name, but .... The first day that I missed during 7th grade because of illness, my mom sent me off with a note the next day to give to the school office. I found my best friends sister, had her write the exact same thing that my mom had written, and gave that one to the office. They called my mom and checked to make sure that she had indeed written that note. My mom replied that she had. The office put that note on file, and whenever I played hookey, I would have my friends sister write me a note. The office would check the new note with the old note, would see that the hand writing was the same, and I was good to go. BTW ... that little ruse only lasted a few times before they caught on. Then there was trouble.