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  • LovesDubs
    LovesDubs

    I found this one of mine...on a site.

    Observations at Assemblies

    I gotta get me one of dem signs that says "BROTHERS NEEDED" and walk around the assembly all day with it like that guy with the bad acne is doing...maybe I can find me a Millennium Man and settle on down for eternity. Someone actually sits all day making those stupid signs: PLEASE BE SEATED, KEEP MOVING PLEASE, HOLD HANDRAIL, VOLUNTEERS WANTED, USE ONLY TWO TOWELS PLEASE, SISTERS PLEASE DON'T APPLY MAKEUP IN REST ROOMS, PEEP HOLE TO SISTER'S JOHN IS ABOVE THE THIRD URINAL FROM THE LEFT. There are never enough johns for the sisters who get virtually all the trips to the john with the kids while their counterparts sit taking (mental) notes about the attributes of the sisters going back and forth to the johns. The rest of them are sleeping with their eyes open or working in the "Trucking" department. When they were still serving food at assemblies, working in trucking was definitely a Chick Magnet job. Now it's limited to a few lucky brothers with connections running pickup for garbage and recycling containers, so the pickens are slim. They would get to take off the suit coats and roll up the sleeves, revealing major pec-age, wielding huge dumpsters up and down the corridors which could be heard echoing in the post lunch break quiet, and would rival even Jehovah's own voice during pre lunch dramas. A veritable testosterone rush.
    Working the lunch distribution counters when they were still doing the food thang, and using the food tickets, was the most horrifying experience one could have. Especially if you weren't particularly good at adding on your feet. "Let's see...uh, one roast beef, one chicken sandwich, two Danish, 2 lemon limes, a fruit bag, one milk, that's uh, three-fifty--no FOUR fifty, uh, chips are uh, 15 and .....I think well....(damn!) Just give me five and we'll call it even. NEXT!" There you are standing and facing a hungry mob, 45 people deep, whose sole break from the terminus bordomnetude of this assembly was to EAT. And the only thing standing between them and that food was YOU...it was not for the weak of heart.

    So then they went to the no ticket/no cash CONTRIBUTION method, then NO HOT LUNCH method, then BYOS finally to "simplify" things...never giving up the CONTRIBUTION thing though...BYOS, y'all, but pay ANYWAY for the privilege of BYOS. Next they will be serving Tang and astronaut rations to save on garbage, and then maybe try connecting everybody to community G-tubes that hang from the ceiling like oxygen masks in an airplane, and feeding everybody at their seats so they never have to stop the Assembly program at all. More likely the WTS was losing money big time because nobody could add and them who was selling the tickets was pocketing the proceeds. We used to sell tickets from behind the betting windows in our race track/assembly site. It was a strange sensation doing this "holy" thing in this den of iniquity from behind steel bars and bullet proof glass no less. It felt like a scene from "The Sting." You half expected the temple prostitutes to meander in not knowing their usual clientele were on hiatus. And I won't even go INTO what it was like to clean the bathrooms of a race track facility when you only were at the place once a year, and they KNEW you would clean it for them free come summer time if they gave it to us Dubs for "free." We not only cleaned the place, we repaired it, painted it, scrubbed the concrete floors and installed all new sound systems. You tell ME who was laughing about that deal. There were people cleaning unknown bodily substances from bathroom walls there that never cleaned their own johns, and any child labor laws or health codes were strictly overlooked for Jehoover. Its a wonder that we didn't all die of hepatitis and give birth to two-headed kids in the aftermath like Chernobyl.

    LovesMeNot

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    This is a true story from Twickenham Assembly:

    Elder's wife takes the chicken dish.
    Young brother behind counter, "Do you want stuffing sister?"
    Elders's wife, "Chance'll be a fine thing".

    I was too far out... and not waving but drowning - Stevie Smith

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    Ah, assembly memories...

    When I was (finally!) old enough to volunteer at the assemblies, I started working in the food service crews (this was all very long ago) I eventually learned what the older guys knew - that one of THE SWEETEST jobs was to be on the "night crew."

    The guys on the night crew would patrol the assembly grounds to keep things secure, and they had good clean fun doing it. The biggest side benefit was that because you were up all night protecting Jehovah's tangible assets, you got to SLEEP DURING THE MEETING!!

    WOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!! Go to the meeting, hang with your friends all night, and get a free pass outa the meeting! EX-cellent!

    One assembly in Washington DC is particularly burned into my memory because although we made this "offering" to Jehovah, the brothers in charge of the Assembly, in their infinite wisdom, resisted providing shower facilities for the workers. After we spent five days and nights in the same clothes in 90+ degree temperatures with 95+ % humidity day and night (DC summers are friggin' HOT) and were all smelling like especially pungent imported cheeses, the brothers relented and allowed us access to the athlete's showers. I removed my slimy undergarments and threw them in the garbage, lathered up and rinsed about a half-dozen times.

    Later I worked as a meatcutter, but that was less fun - although it did have blood and knives. :)

    At one assembly - it might have been this same one, I can't recall - back when there were talks about the evils of popular music, a group of us were sitting in the bowels of the convention site. We could hear the goings-on just fine, but we were out of the way, which we enjoyed. A friend of one of the guys who was occasionally studying brought his guitar. (I'll call him Charlie) During one of the intermissions this guy would play, and he played well. But it was only acoustic guitar - no amps, no drums, no keyboard. I should mention that I'm tone deaf - to me everything sounds like breaking glass - so I couldn't tell you what he was playing, but it was good and it was played with feeling. So Charlie's playing away when some doddering old man goes by, hears the music, and launches into a tirade, "WHAT IS THAT MUSIC?" "I don't know," I tell the old kook, "I think it's just chord patterns." But this guy was all full of fire and brimstone - said he wanted our names, that he would be contacting our congregations, etc, etc. I eventually got his heartrate back into a safe range and he stopped the inquisition - on the condition that we stop the music.

    After he left, I found out what Charlie had been playing:

    "Get Together" by Jesse Colin Young

    Love is but a song we sing, fear's the way we die
    You can make the mountains ring, or make the angels cry
    Though the bird is on the wind, and you may not know why
    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now
    Some may come and some may go, you will surely pass
    When the one that left us here, returns for us at last
    We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass
    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now
    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now

    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now

    If you hear the song we sing, you will understand
    You hold the key to love and fear all in your trembling hand
    Just one key unlocks them both, it's there at your command
    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now

    Come on people now, smile on your brother
    Everybody get together
    Try to love one another right now...

    (Coyright 1967 Youngbloods)

    Certainly this WAS inappropriate music for a group of young christans, many of whom were facing the US Army draft with the prospect of going to VIet-Nam, to be listening to.

    I hope old Brother Music Critic is dead now.

  • lisaBObeesa
    lisaBObeesa

    (Holding up lighter and clapping....wait, is that possible?)

    I am such a fan, would you sign my WT and Awake?

    Thanks for the post! It made my day, brought back memories, and made me feel superior to my JW sister who still actually attends these things!

    Thanks!
    --LisaBobeesa

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