[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

[Andy Vida]

xlch58@swbell.net wrote:
> 
> Cistercian College Prepatory School in Dallas.   Formed by Cistercian
> Monks from Hungary that escaped by any number of fascinating means from
> Hungary in the sixties.  Corporal punishment was an art form for them,
> each one had his own signature punishment, that ranged from tugging your
> sideburns to rapping your fingertips with a ruler.   The great thing
> about it was you could smart off in class, get the snot kicked out of
> you and when your parents picked you up after school and asked how you
> were doing, Fr Aurel would just say "His spanish is not so good, but his
> reflexes are improving".    A few years later I was being taught by nuns
> and it was daily parent teacher conferences.  I preferred the more
> direct approach of the monks.  Even later I was taught by Jesuit monks
> at Jesuit High School.   Got a great education and thanks to the fact
> that dad would arrive after school every day with his twenty year old
> truck with its signature garbage sack for a passenger window  and line
> up with all of the mercedes,   I never felt compelled  by peer pressure
> to fit in.  It was just never going to happen.

	They'd have murdered me within a week's time.  I was contrary
	to a fault in some ways and very obedient in others.

	Ah... the good old days when sass to a teacher got your ass
	beat and when your parents asked who beat you and why, you'd
	explain to them only to receive another beating to make sure
	the first one sank in.  How the world has changed.