This troper is well-known among her peers for being an "artist," which just means that you're willing to stick to a high school art class for more than the required year. This, and her normally eccentric behavior, gives her a pass to do ANYTHING at all. It doesn't hurt that most people find this troper to be a bit hilarious, and good grades and a friendly relationship with the teachers is always handy.

This one get cut a little slack, too. I can read Mage:TheAascension, drink Pepsi or eat candy in class and nobody cares. Except the ones next to me who'll want a piece.

This troper has a friend who is allowed to get away with some truly outrageous behavior by not only students but teachers! She's done things that would have gotten any other person kicked out of school, but it's okay, because "She's Brina."

This troper would say there are a ''lot'' of people like this. His college neighbor (2007-2008) is allowed to get away with swearing, lying, mooching, thieving, cheating, and - for Christ's sake - ''hitting girls for absolutely no reason,'' a conduct that does not spread to the male gender, but because "he's Sibo," it's perfectly fine. No, this troper is ''not'' bitter. Not ''at all.''

This troper is an example, but nowhere near the level of the previous examples.

In her previous school, this troper discovered that being an art student apparently entitled one to eccentric behaviour. Acceptable behaviour included such things as racing down the hallway on computer chairs with fellow art students (teachers merely greeted us as we passed them) and acquiring broken glassware from the kitchen with the aid of the magic words "it's for a project" (granted, it ''was'' for a project).

This troper has a friend who is allowed to come to school obviously hungover/stoned and smoke in front of teachers on school grounds. He's also allowed to get away with copious public swearing and acts of violence upon breakable inanimate objects. The trust that people put in him regardless is staggering; this troper once witnessed a man in a grocery store ask him to watch his eight-year-old daughter while the man used the restroom. Evidently he's allowed to get away with anything because he's small, good-looking, and ridiculously mellow. This troper insists he's an alien with magic powers. You'd have to know him.

This troper has noticed a tendency for a few gay men she knows to touch women inappropriately and/or make offensive or lewd comments while using the "it's okay, I'm gay" card to get away with it. Evidently it doesn't work the same way with lesbians.

I had a hair fetish in high school which I acted upon quite often. The various people whose hair I fancied went on with their business and just attributed it to me being me.

This troper knows a breast obsessive who goes on about them all the time and once greeted her casually with "I never realised what big tits you have". It seems to be widely accepted that there's no changing him, even though he discriminates in favour of well-endowed women at every opportunity. His wife puts up with it too, or so it seems.

Which leads to the question of his wife's forwardness...

There is an entire ''university'' built on this premise - Reed College in Portland, Oregon, is the Pacific Northwest's drug mecca - if you can smoke it, snort it, or inject it, you can do it, even though many people have died of overdoses (the most recent of a ''heroin'' overdose). Apparently, this is okay, because the Reed kids are "super-intelligent" and "gifted". Or if you're a college aged student who knows some Reed kids and is sick and tired of the media giving them their WeirdnessCoupon, "passing off complete lack of social skills as misunderstanding by mundanes", "jackasses flaunting their 'freedom' every time you see them", "rich enough parents to get into Reed" or at best "insufferable geniuses".

This troper got through 10th grade because of this trope. He doesn't know why, but he seems to be able to get away with not doing homework or messing around on the school computers all day.

This troper just did a double check to make sure that he didn't write this earlier and forgot about it. Seriously- I think the school authorities had stopped caring around the time I put seven copies of [=StepMania=] on the network drive.

This troper reads TVTropes throughout Computers class. He's getting marks in the 80s.

This troper also had something similar. I skipped occasional classes in some parts of high school while fixing something the for the IT admin (small school). I also got away with listening to music (headphones on) throughout ''all of grade 10'', by having a tendency to answer any question asked with the right answer anyway.

This troper is three years behind on his education (personal problems), so he gets unusual amount of slack in his school. His colleagues and teachers take the insults and ClusterFBombs in stride, nobody ever complains about him going out for a smoke mid-class, falling asleep, or going to class with novels and snacks instead of schoolbooks. Hangovers and smelling like an Amsterdam coffee shop are never mentioned. Still, I try to make up for it by being helpful in crisis situations.

This troper and her best male friends do all sorts of odd things at school and elsewhere that would probably get us kicked out or sent to the loony bin anywhere else, but the guys get a WeirdnessCoupon and this troper seems to be something of an unintentional teacher's pet... This includes one of the guys putting on a leering basketball mask and walking around the school, scaring people with it.

This troper's university society will sorely miss a certain male student, who will remain nameless. When you find yourself throwing packets of biscuits at a tree, fleeing from improvised fighting robots, or trying to put out an unexpected longboat fire, and it makes ''total sense'', that's him. Oh - and don't touch the hair.

This troper has a few stories:

One day in literature class in 11th grade, this troper got bored and started placing pencils into the hair bun of his female friend sitting in front of him. The teacher had the class situated where half was on one side, facing the half on the other side so she could walk in the middle. A good 75% kept watching this poor girl as she got three pencils stuck in the left side of her bun, three stuck in the right side of her bun, and three sticking out the top of it. After a while, she noticed everyone, including the teacher, staring at her. She discovered it, and we all had a good laugh. The teacher loved this troper, for some reason, and he didn't get in trouble for disturbing class.

One of this troper's band directors had a horrible habit of speeding up when conducting. One day, she got so fed up with the band "slowing down" that she turned on the overhead microphone, turned on a metronome, and played the loud, piercing beat throughout the band room. She tried a couple more times, and continued to speed up. She said, fuming, "Class, I even have a metronome going and..." and this troper could take it no more, so he yelled, "And you're still slowing down!" She just gave this troper a look, stopped, turned off the equipment and said, "From the top." She never mentioned the incident.

Just about every day at recess in 5th grade, this troper and his friends noticed that Gina and Mitch, two mentally-challenged classmates, never got in trouble for their constant very physical and violent fights. We always joked that the teachers sat back and said to each other, "How cute!" To prove their point, one day friends Brigham and Drew decided to playfully and gently push each other back and forth. The result? They each had to sit on the sidewalk for five minutes for fighting.

One slow day, while working at Burger King, this troper got bored and decided to throw a large, unbroken sheet of ice into one of the grease burners. After a couple minutes, when the grease was still going crazy, a manager came back to the kitchen, fuming and demanding to know who was responsible. Just as this troper was about to confess and get written up, a co-worker named Ronnie said, "I did." The manager just laughed and said, "Okay, but not again." When asked why he did it, he responded, "I didn't want you to get in trouble. They know I do stupid things."

This troper is it in his group of friends, though not on the level of some people here. As has been said - "When someone says something crazy or weird, it's all 'oooh, they're being crazy and weird'. When Goody says something crazy or weird, it's just your average day."

This troper is a borderline example. He can get away with outrageous stuff -- but only when he's in Latin. In any other class, he's too afraid to try. On one memorable occasion, he stuck one of the teacher's post-it notes on his forehead after writing "off to la-la land" on it. Then he just sat there and daydreamed until the teacher realized it was one of her post-its.

In one class, this troper got groped in front of several people by a boy with severe mental retardation. No one took it seriously, because he was "harmless". She was extremely freaked out and, fine, scared. Said boy also got away with screaming fist-swinging temper tantrums when someone was in front of him in a lunch line - as one of the several mentally disabled people with keepers guiding them along, he automatically was sent to the head of the line, but sometimes a student was in the process of paying and couldn't just wait. The only other person who didn't think he was "sweet" told this troper to just treat him like an unpleasant but not really dangerous dog, and that actually worked pretty well.

Although this troper's friends give a very poor frame of reference for what is normal, one of them takes the cake. In the gaming club at my college there are two members relevant to this story. One was known as BSM; the only explanation I received for this was "well, she's a '''raging''' lesbian, so we call her Ball Sac Man when she's not around". I chose not to question the logic of that connection at the time, instead asking "When she's not around? Nikki was calling her that to her face just yesterday", which elicited the even more useless reply of "well yeah, but, that's Nikki"

This one person in This troper's [=CISCO=] class gets away with being the type of raging asshole that only {{House}} could dream of being, because he's Simon. He even got elected as Public Relations Officer despite being well-known as a 4chan-spewing asshole.

This troper has just started high school and is banking on his strategy of this to work. The only way I got away with doing so little in middle school is my Weirdness Coupon, and so far, have established an amazing one. Highlights so far include yelling "MR. SAMIR!" at the same student daily, asking stupid questions (not remotely related to the subject) to the Biology teacher, and working up the self-deprecating humor to a foam. But, hey, it's just Max, what're ya going to do?

This troper worked with someone who was used to being treated this way all her life, often by using the sob story about her "hard life" (featuring numerous tragedies she had inflicted on herself. Basically, none of her friends could not stand to be around her, none of her 2 husbands could stand her, and none of her children, who moved away from her as soon as they were 18. There's an upside to this folks - people who abuse their WeirdnessCoupon drive people away, and she had used it so much, she was all alone), some skill at emotional manipulation and various other tricks. She was insufferable to work with, and pretty much everyone left her to her own area of the building, the boss included. As the new guy, and perceiving my life to be too easy, said person took a dislike to me. I did all I could to keep her separated from me, but she kept coming after me, until in a moment of stupidity and desperation, she spent an hour lying about where I had been, claimed I hadn't completed the 3 hours of work I had been assigned in the morning and then when I gave a sharp tongued rebuttal (silly of me, but she wears down everyone's patience. I think I lasted longer than most), she "pretended" to quit (throwing a public tantrum, much in the way a small child would), then told the boss she would not return until I was fired. She had mistakenly assumed we could not survive without her (even loudly boasting this to various friends of her). Unfortunately for her, she had misinterpreted her boss's refusal to fire her as her being invaluable, where in fact he was really afraid of conflict. Afterward he actually thanked me, since he didn't know how to deal with her. The company has since expanded, and her job was filled by someone who isn't a Drama Llama, and therefore far more efficient. So yeah, these people can be a pain to be around, but if they push it too far, they hurt themselves in the end.

Actually I remember reading that there's a condition in which a person basically doesn't grow up mentally. Sounds like your "Friend" was one of them. The best part is that the way to treat it is to basically treat them as a child and not give into them. Makes me feel less guilty about doing such myself.

This troper's best friend Glenn is a real-life {{Keet}} whose various eccentricities are usually excused with "He's Glenn." This includes, but is not limited to, striking up conversations about ''MagicTheGathering'' with random strangers, giving bear hugs to other dudes (including extremely manly ones), screaming nonsense words at the top of his lungs, and breaking out into song in the middle of the Student Union while doing an improvised tap number. Of course, FreezairForALimitedTime isn't much better herself--If she decides to hand in an entire essay in mirror-writing, then ''she hands in an entire essay in mirror writing.'' And she aces it.

A friend of This Troper asked a math teacher at our high school for an Algebra 2 book to hollow out. It was granted. The most awesome speech ever followed the next day.

This troper knows a very short, very mellow person who can get away with just about anything. In the course of one class period, he is liable to chuck pencils across the room, yell little-kid insults, smile about the whole thing, and give everyone hugs. He's everyone's hero by now.

This troper doesn't so much have a WeirdnessCoupon as everyone else filters him through a WeirdnessCensor. He's walked backwards for an entire day, regularly burps in public and rates them on a scale of 1 to 10, and once even Silent Bobbed his way through an ''entire week''. Of course, it may help that he's a BunnyEarsLawyer.

This troper has a friend that can get away with anything. Last Christmas, his gift to everyone was signed photos of himself. Everyone loved them.

At my old school, I had something of a weirdness coupon. I could be reading a book or playing cards (for fun) or whatever during recess/lunch with my friends and nobody would care, even when I accidentally shouted "BULL****!" at the top of my lungs when playing the card game of same name.

This troper holds a lot of weirdness coupons. This really reached a limit when I tried out a new evil laugh, and people around me were terrified about it until they realized it was me, because "At least he's not stoned." Note that I have never taken any form of drugs, and I don't drink. Not out of any moral thing, but because you get screwed up for being caught with drugs and alcohol tastes like shit.

This troper has three words that are the most effective weirdness coupon she's ever encountered "Forgot the meds."

The high school that this troper went to has a combined American History/English class available for the honors sophomores. We did such weird projects that we got an actual WeirdnessCoupon; a permanent hall pass that let us come and go as we pleased. And boy, did we do weird stuff for our projects and reports!

This troper's friend had a Weirdness Coupon allowing him to fall asleep in first period English during eighth grade, or just about. He also declares weird things and spews memes sometimes, but no one particularly cares.

For a Media project years ago, this troper's group filmed a brawl in the school corridors. Right outside occupied classrooms. It was the full being dragged around by shirts, heads pushed into lockers, we had a couple of passers-by join in and a couple of people walk straight past, and no teacher ever said a word to us.

After discovering Lord of the Rings, this troper decided to write her schoolwork in the pretty script that's used for the maps. A friend decided to copy her and was told off. When she protested that the troper was allowed to, the teacher (who later became headmaster) replied, "ah, but she's struggling with her mind." We were very amused.

This Troper has a few examples of his Weirdness Coupon in action:

He's been known to stand at the front of the class and have conversations with the teachers while everyone else is doing work.

This Troper was also allowed to simply refuse to do any given assignment on a whim in his Geometry class because he always got near perfect test scores.

He's worn a welding mask during Physics class without problem, despite the teacher's strict enforcement of the rules requiring other students to remove hats and/or sunglasses.

Teachers have tolerated him handing in assignments where his name was written only in a cypher of his own making.

He wore his hoodie during yearbook pictures after several students before him were required to remove them and several others were made to remove theirs after him. He also didn't smile.

He is also allowed to take two milks during lunch without paying the extra quarter just because.

This troper only has the coupon amongst his friends despite going on incredibly long and well founded rants about how goats are evil. His friend, on the other hand, always wears a hoody (despite school uniform laws being strict as anything.) and gets away with jokes about anything from childish toilet humour to jokes about abortion. He's also been named the Antichrist on many occasions. His other friend also is not punished for his strange qualities. He's called out on them a lot, but never actually punished in a situation where anyone else would because everyone just expects it from him.

At This Tropette's school play, the little kids have a special section up front so they can see. Often, a very patient older sibling of one of the little guys sits with them, and is effectively in charge of 20 or so small children. So during one performance, one of the actors in the play LIT A FIRE in the dressing room. With all those little guys YARDS AWAY with no parents. No, he was not expelled. That would make sense.

Yet another troper with a weirdness coupon. This troper could do everything from fall asleep in classes (keeping in mind that he talks in his sleep, saying some rather, disturbing, things at times), to randomly chewing on people. He also got into nearly a fight a week at times, with the other student suspended or expelled, and him only told to not do that again. (He knew the principle personally, and the principle knew that he only got in fights that really needed to be dealt with, there were some very nasty people at our school, and I mean really truly nasty human beings) He also could wander the halls without any kind of pass (or even excuse) and could wander into and out of any class at any. Unfortunately he lost his connections to the school staff after Jr. High, except for the Tech Department, where he became a bit of a BunnyEarsLawyer.

This troper seems to hold the WeirdnessCoupon for her entire church congregation, which is partly explained by the fact that she's one of the church's five most active volunteers (and the office administrator to boot). Of course, it helps that the Pastor is pretty much as weird as she is, and they are an effective if somewhat dangerous combination.

This troper and his best friend held the WeirdnessCoupon since grade school and throughout high school, people just ignored what idiocy we did. We once bombarded a classroom with paper airplanes (and the teacher just told us to clean it when we were done without even batting an eyelash), and another time we made bows out of copper rods and garter and goofed around with them (people just resumed their business and stepped to the side when they saw us).

My friend. I may have forgotten the details of this story, but he ran up behind two freshmen girls he didn't know, threw a bunch of weeds into the air above their heads, yelled "ANDROIDS CAN'T LOVE", and took off running down the hallway. Also he makes contingency plans for in case our school erupts into racial warfare. And he rarely gets in trouble. We're used to him by now.

This troper can get away with saying pretty strange stuff without anybody batting an eye. Nobody pays any attention when he claims that he serves the Great Cthulhu (or maybe the Burning Legion. He isn't quite sure himself) or sings in "demonic" (essentially the stuff spoken by demon in Warcraft games with some ascribed meanings to certain words) to the tune of Russian folk songs (that one actually has a perfectly sensible reason: I like the tunes but can't speak a word of Russian, so I rather use a completely made-up language than sing in horribly mangled sorta-Russian). It's what he does. It does help that many of his fellow students do pretty strange things too (like sing out loud the theme of Love Boat or eats four pounds of cheese for lunch). And then there was the ManicPixieDreamGirl he knew in highschool who could say and do pretty much anything (from climbing to the roof of the building to explaining why all other nations should form an alliance and declare war on USA) without anybody finding it particularly strange.

At this troper's former high and middle schools, anyone who has participated in the International Baccalaureate program for a significant period of time seems to receive one of these. Go on, show up to school in all out {{cosplay}}. Provided the dress code isn't being broken very much, no one will mind. What? You duct taped that girl to an office chair? Oh, she requested it? Well, just don't get me fired, okay?

Ditto for this troper's school. As long as we kept up with our work and promised not to fail our exams, everything from prank wars to psychological analyses of {{Discworld}} characters to the application of internet memes to classic literature was permitted. And the year below us was even worse....

Baccalaureate only schools in Switzerland are the opposite. If you are at all eccentric or weird in any way whatsoever, expect frequent calls of ''you just don't'' '''''DO''''' ''that!''.

This troper gets away with blatantly not paying attention, doodling, reading completely off-topic books (Discworld in Algebra class, anyone?), chewing gum, holding conversations, sleeping, and even eating his lunch in the middle of class. While many students can get away with at least one of these from time to time, for some reason teachers almost never call him out. He also (apparently) avoids being explicitly placed in a singular stereotype. He once heard a story about a (rather bitchy) girl pointing to various classmates and going, "He's a geek. She's a slut. He's a pothead. He's a jock. She's emo. Uh... he's. Hmm. He's That One Guy."

It usually takes up to two week for this troper's teachers and schoolmates to realize he has one. One notable way he established it: last day of school, this troper was bored, was sitting against a tall wall, had a banana peel and curiosity. I started trying to see how high I could get, when the local evil yard duty rounded the corner. The yardduty tried to yell, but was too confounded to figure out what to do. Ever since, the yard duty only gives him warnings at worst.

The Troper also gets away with writing comics and stories in class since either the teachers just figure out I do it to pay attention (if I don't write these things down, I get distracted), or this troper flat out tells them on day one.

This troper, a native Texan, gets plenty of weirdness coupons around the state simply by being from Austin. Austin is... different.

Almost everyone I know has one, to certain degrees. Mostly because everyone I know is off their meds, quite literally.

Pretty much everyone well-known in this troper's school Drama Club when it comes to the two drama teachers/sponsors. They can do just about anything that doesn't jeopardize a production and they'll be treated just the same, or even be ''joined'' by the sponsers in a joke or prank. One girl, in a desperate attempt to avoid retribution for abusing her boyfriend (later ex-boyfriend) from the rest of the drama kids, ''faked amnesia''. A year later, and she's the assistant director for the spring musical.

Sometimes a WeirdnessCoupon can work ''too'' well. This troper, who works in a museum, walked in today carrying a license plate and was rather disappointed that people were so used to bizarre things happening around him that nobody commented except for the one person who figured out why he had it, and who only did so to confirm her guess.

This troper has been allowed to pull off a lot of weird stuff and still managed to be one of the guys in my year while I was in school. The description they gave me for our graduation yearbook was "Unique" and "In a class of his own".

This troper manages to have a WeirdnessCoupon in the midst of a bunch of theatre majors and fangeeks, which is saying something. Most notably, she gets away with wearing things that no otherwise sane person would think of wearing in public. Someone shows up to a conference in tight purple 80s pants, a sparkly gold belt, and a pirate shirt? Don't worry, that's Rin.

It seems that all of the boys in this troper's class gets to do this. For example: Throwing food, yelling obscenities and sexual words very loudly in class, browsing the internet when the teachers are looking right right behind them, throwing footballs up at the lights and endangering everyone with shards of sharp glass, starting fights in the middle of class, emptying others desks in homeroom, breaking all of the chalk, stealing all of the markers, never doing homework, falling asleep in class and telling the teachers this, writing obscenities in all of the schools library books, acting racists and using "Jew" as an insult... Note: We're in a small Catholic K-8 school, where my grade (7th) has only about 40 kids, so everyone gets a lot of attention on their own, but the teacher's just really don't care anymore. 5 teachers throughout the years have either taken early retirements or have gone to teach at different schools after our grade...it really pisses me off, b/c all of these boys are going to grow up to be horrible people...

This troper has learned from experience that the best way to get a permanent WeirdnessCoupon pass is to hit them fast and hard with the madness from Day One. In college, my professors have come to expect it from me (especially the ones who have added me on Facebook, since my Facebook feed is a nonstop jamboree of my most absurd thoughts presented for public consumption with no content filters) to the point where if I'm NOT using a WeirdnessCoupon they wonder if there's something gone wrong in my life. It never occurs to them that I'm blatantly flaunting the rules for my own benefit under normal circumstances. In fact, they're worried when I'm playing straight.

My boyfriend gets away with things nobody else would be able to, like tugging me around, tickling me, and biting my shoulder and fingertips. He even said that I would never notice if he became a vampire because he does this every time we are within ten feet of each other.

At High School, I was decided to try out a rather amazing Christmas gift. No-one really blinked at the weasel-on-a-ball rolling around class room.

This troper has this. She could just randomly crash a project meeting held by some of her friends, then just crawl to lie on someone's lap, before moving off to perch on someone's back when the previous one needed to stand up to write something on the white board, then move to doodle on someone else's paper. Cue rest of the team mates not batting an eyelid as the brain storming session goes on.

An approximate exchange between my friend and the school janitor. Her dad's actually a teacher: #QUOTE#Janitor: Why are you two rollerblading in school? And it's not even a school day. #QUOTE#Friend: Umm... My dad said I could? #QUOTE#Janitor: Is your dad Sean? #QUOTE#Friend: Umm yeah. #QUOTE#Janitor: Okay then.

Happened at my job, I worked in a food court for about a year and a half, everyone there was certain that i had lived an extremely sheltered life. so when I messed up, i would usually just get a shaken head, maybe a face palm and told to clean it up. i didn't mess up often but in the immortal words of my supervisor, "waldo(my nickname), you don't f***up that much, but when you do, G**DAMN!". of course it was like this for just about everyone there, it made up for the horrible office politics, it helped that when i was there i was close to if not the hardest worker there, mostly because of a damn good work ethic. but still under normal situations f***ing up 3 different 16" pizzas in a row would at least get you sent to the back room to get your sh*t together, not me, i got sent to the gravy train, ice cream.

This troper knits through every one of her classes - even band. It took several months for her teachers to notice, and even then they didn't actually object. They're probably thankful she's not texting like most of her peers.

In my high school experience, being a decent student and not having a track record of raising hell can get you pretty far. For example, last year, I ate lunch in math class every day. I still did my work and, despite being absolute shit at math, got by with a B+, so nobody said a thing. Also, last year, I fell asleep several times in a class where the teacher is notorious for freaking out over kids sleeping. I was woken up only once, and the teacher assured me he was just 'making sure I was okay' (he also said that, had I been a guy, he would've put me through the ringer, but that's a different trope). This year, while being subjected to some horrible documentaries in science, I pretty much said 'screw it', copied down the required twenty facts in about three minutes, then put headphones on and surfed the 'net on my phone for the rest of the hour. Teacher stood right behind me (obviously seeing my phone, since the class was dark and my phone was lit up), saw that I'd finished the work, and moved on without a word. In short, be a decent student and teachers will pretty much develop a WeirdnessCensor to whatever mischief you get up to.

This troper, after finishing early one day during computer testing near the end of the semester, proceeded to whip out earphones and watch {{Futurama}} on Netflix while the other students continued to test. This got little attention. She has also gotten away with sleeping, socializing, and using her phone completely conspicuously during math class, even when switching seats to do so.