I was an altar boy for 11 years. Think you had it hard? We had to do the same things, plus answer the priest in Latin. To this day, anytime I hear Introibo ad altare Dei I automatically answer: Ad Deum qui laitificat jueventutem meam, and can still recite the Confiteor and the Dies Irae, all 20-odd verses.

Why, when I was a boy....