Really sad after buying Girl Scout cookies.

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118. Your post made me remember

something from 50 years ago.

My dad was in a hospital run/staffed by Catholic nuns. Back when they wore the full habits.

I had never seen a nun before, although my mom, being brought up Catholic, had, and addressed them as "sister" (which confused me, seeing as I was a very literal child and wondered how all those women could be her sisters).

So we were leaving the hospital to go home and mom took me and my sisters into the gift shop to get some paper dolls. My mom paid for them, and that's when the nun behind the counter asked me what X dollars (cost of the paper dolls) from X dollars (what my mom handed to the nun in payment) was.

I was struck dumb. Number one, because I was not good at math. Number two, because this big strange scary person dressed in black was asking me a question I couldn't answer. I wanted to run away. Or die on the spot.

I thought I was the stupidest child on earth.