Got the Point?
We were having lunch one day and I was one of the monitors that
would be taking the girls to the movie theatre in Nanuet. For some
reason Sr. Josita kept giving me the evil eye and I couldn’t understand
why. I later found out that she wanted us to hurry along with our
lunch because she had something to do. Everyone else was allowed
to leave the table except Mary Donnelly and me. They all went to
the movies and Mary and I were left behind for no reason.
We were living on the hill by then so we were both hiding in one of the buildings peeking out to see where the nuns were. Finally Mary said, I am going down to the main building and see what is going on and why we were punished.
Mary happened to meet Sister Superior and she wanted to know why Mary was not at the movie. Mary told her she did not know why, and that we were punished for no reason.
Sr. Josita was from Brooklyn as most of the nuns
were. They used to say erle for oil and terlet for Toilet. So,
the next day Sr. Josita called us into the room and tried to explain
why we were punished. Sr. Josita said to us, "do you get
my ‘pernt’". Well, Mary and I cracked up and could not stop laughing
so hard, almost in her face. Then she said, "Alright, laugh,
just as long as you get my ‘pernt’". And we laughed all the harder.
And I mean we were practically on the floor.
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