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In reply to the discussion: This will offend some people, and for any offence I apologize. [View all]calimary
(85,100 posts)Indeed. Religion is not for everyone. It's not even for everyone who went to some sort of parochial school. I just had a lot of silly and fun memories. AND most conniving stuff, too. I learned how to use whatever wiles I had to get privileges. I had the grades so that helped anyway. But things like - if you volunteer to take on the job of writing down all the times for all the swimmers at the swim meet, then you got gym credit without having to change into gym wear and you sure didn't have to get into a bathing suit and then into that ice-cold pool. I sat in the shade at a table with all my time cards and sometimes a snack, and just kept track, comfortable and dry as a bone. And they couldn't do a meet without me!
And if you were the A-student, you got out of tests sometimes, because during every mid-morning recess, somebody had to go downstairs to the kitchen and pick up the mid-morning coffee for the lay teachers, and carry it up on a tray to the teacher's lounge. So I missed mid-morning recess. But the cooks downstairs in the kitchen always had some extra pastry or turnover or eclair or whatever treat the teachers would be enjoying, and I'd always get that! And that daily errand took up most of the mid-morning break, so I had just enough time to eat the evidence before the bell rang and anybody else in my class found out. I bet the ones who are still around still don't know. I found Catholic school, both grade school and high school, was full of side benefits if you could figure out how to work it.
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