Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Pukin' on a nun
I think it was when I was in the second grade that I was served something in the cafeteria that I didn't like. It was some kind of kidney bean salad type of conglomeration and looked really bad. I ate everything else on my tray, but left those beans alone. I knew if I ate them I would gag and then of course puke. This nun was bound and determined that I was going to eat them. Although normally I was a very obedient child, I was not going to eat them. She was unrelenting--I told her "if you make me eat them I will throw up". She said something like "oh no you won't, now eat them. " By this time, all the other kids had finished their lunch and were at recess. I still sat there alone with my beans on my plate. Then recess was over and I was still holding out as classes were resuming for everyone else. This nun finally went and got Kathy out of her class, and asked her to get me to eat them. Kathy told her "if you make her eat them she will throw up!" When that was also unsuccessful, Kathy was sent back to her class. She kept on me until I finally just gave up. I put a bite in my mouth, tried my best to swallow it, but I gagged and I puked all over her and all over me. She spent the next half hour or so cleaning us both up in the restroom. The next day, we started taking our lunch to school. Even taking my own lunch, that same nun would come by occasionally and say something like "you know you must eat all of your sandwich before you can have those cookies." I'd just smile at her very respectively and say "I know". That is one nun that not only should not have been a teacher or working with children in any capacity, and indeed needed to say a few Hail Mary's.
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heehee i remember this story from the ranch. kathy and you and michelle would laugh forever about this one.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard this one....or at least don't remember it. I actually remember very few of these. I am really enjoying them. My nuns were never this mean.
ReplyDeletei don't remember this one either. you'd have thought the nun would have learned her lesson and just apologized.
ReplyDeleteThe issue was discipline and control.
ReplyDeletehmmmm I'm all for discipline but don't really believe in "controlling" kids. Of course, I also don't send my kids to catholic schools, huh? I think the nun should have backed off and acknowledged that some people just don't like beans. Good grief. There are far bigger fish to fry!
ReplyDeletehow interesting
ReplyDeleteYup!
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