Doctors & Nuns

During the Korean War, my grandfather served as a doctor. He was stationed at an American Base in the country and my grnadmother would tell me stories that they had a trench inside the base and every so often they would have alarms that would go off in the base which meant they were being attacked they would have to escort the patients into the trench. My grandmother would say my grandfather was afraid at times because they would give him a gun, but he had no training in combat. However, the story I want to tell is this one which makes my grandmother and I still laugh to this day. Once my grandfather was asked to care for a Mother Superior(Higher Ranking Nun)that was very sick at a small house. When my grandfather went to the house he was greeted by two nuns at the door who only spoke french. Unbeknownst to them my grandfather spoke perfect french and could understand their conversation. They questioned whether or not he was actually a doctor and that he could actually help the Mother Superior. They also had some very insulting things to say, until my grandfather spoke a french sentence to them. Both of them jumped up and became so red with embarassment. Thus, they let him inside. Now the Mother Superior was really sick so they had to call an ambulance to help her and because she was a big woman, they had to get several men to help her down the stairs.