20 Funny Reasons Parents Had to Pick Their Kids Up from School

As a child, getting picked up from school in the middle of the day is basically VIP treatment. Sometimes, it’s because of a minor illness that requires antibiotics, room-temperature ginger ale and old sitcom reruns. Other times, it’s because rowdy behavior went a little too far. Regardless, this brief celebrity status comes at the expense of parents who have to drop everything they’re doing to go get their kid. 

For these Redditors, though, at least the minor inconvenience came with a silver lining — an extremely funny story to tell. Here are some of the most hilarious reasons kids had to be picked up from school, with a surprising number of nosebleeds at the hands of a wall…