I always thought the phrase was “lead us not to Penn Station.”
That was the New Yorker version.................
>>I always thought the phrase was lead us not to Penn Station.<<
That would make perfect sense given what a cesspool that place is.
And I used to think “There’s a bathroom on the right.”
You went to Catholic school, didn’t you?
In Mass, that is the kind of thing we would have said, with smirking faces followed invariably by the nuns that would have come up and whacked us from behind...:)
One child thought the line in the Rosary amongst women was really a monk swimming.