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April 09, 2005

And in lane 5....

We had our first track meet of the season today. Since each of our boys is in a different age group, this means we were at the field most of the day - from 11 AM to almost 6 PM. Four out of five schools there seemed to be Catholic schools, one of which was a rather new one named after Mother Teresa. And so when the announcer was calling out the schools in each lane for the first race it went something like this:

Lane 1 - Queen of Peace; lane 2 - Mariemont; lane 3 - Sacred Heart; lane 4 - St Ignatius, and in lane 5 - Mother Teresa.

I wasn't the only one to chuckle when hearing Mother Teresa was running in lane 5. Since all of us there remembered the real Mother Teresa, the image of the little nun running a 75 meter race was just too much!

There were several saints running the tracks today - St Mary (under four or five different names), St Catharine, St Jude, St Bartholomew, St Ignatius, St Theresa Little Flower, St Veronica, St James and probably a couple others.

April 09, 2005 in Humor | Permalink