17 Signs You Went to Catholic School in Ontario

1. The school gym was where you took communion, cheered on the basketball team and got groped during your first slow dance.

2. There were more cracks in the schoolyard pavement than in Rob Ford’s “tobacco” pipe.

3. You thought the other religion was “Public.”

4. You still tend to stick the word “public” onto the end of school names. As in, “Where do your kids go? Brantwood Public?”

5. You had to buy all your own school supplies which you somehow thought was because you went to Catholic school. But maybe public school kids did too. You still don’t know!

6. You would have been upset about the closure of school pools if you ever knew schools could have pools.

7. The kilt was more than a passing 90s trend to you. (But a trend you rocked nonetheless if you were lucky enough to be in high school in the 90s.)

8. Inner City Angels balloon races.

9. Most of your sex ed came from Seventeen magazine. And it was surprisingly accurate!

10. Your classmates were Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Ukrainian, Maltese, Hispanic, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Irish and, well, anything but white Anglo-Saxons, really.

11. You didn’t know there were actual living people with the last names Smith and Davis.

12. You could change from your uniform into street clothes at your locker in two minutes flat.

13. You accumulated multiple plastic rosaries over the years. (And that was quite handy during your angsty goth phase.)

14. You can recite the Apostle’s Creed at will. Well, you’ve got the first couple lines down. Everybody mumbles through the middle part. Whatever. I think they may have changed it anyway.