convention freaky memories

by joelbear 37 Replies latest jw friends

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  freedomlover

  I remember the bench style home made plywood 'toilets'. they were a long wooden trough (maybe 30'), covered by a plywood board with a hole cut in each 'dump spot' and a curtain in between each hole. A ten gallon tip bucket was located at the elevated end of the trough that would slowly fill up with water and then tip into the trough, washing all the 'used hoagies' down to the low end and into the open sewer drain.

  You had to time it so that you could sit down, do your business quickly and then exit the 'stall' before the bucket dumped or you'd get yer bum 'wet'. This was especially important if you were in a 'stall' on the lower end of the trough.

  J

  OH MY FREAKIN' GOD!!! That is the nastiest thing I have ever heard!!!!!!!

  LMAO!!! jeanniebeanz - what the hell kind of assembly did you go to???!!! (banjos playing in the backround here......) LOL!
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  greendawn

  The only strange thing I remember is what one elder told me while giving me a lift there, that he eats one raw egg before giving a talk there because that clears up his voice.
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  Plummet

  Before Marrage

  Good: Cheese Danish or a Bagel and Cream Cheese, My mom giving us all kinds of Candy to keep awake, checking out all of the hot girls that we never had a chance with, Rating all of the hot girls on a scale of 1 to 5 using the names of bikes (check out that GT Diamondback!"), Being the only brother to wear hawian type, flowery shirts to the convention.

  Bad: Being bored out of my mind; the god awful smell of the mens room, having to help clean, the heat, I hate wearing a suit all friggin day long, Getting rained on in my first and last outdoor convention.

  After Marrage

  Good: Ditching to go to the Zoo, Ditching to go to 6 flags (several times), Ditching to sleep in because we went to the porn stores in that big city and stayed up too late, going back to our hotel (across the street, not on THE LIST) during lunch to have sex, Ditching to go to the beach, Moving my car during lunch to get a covered parking spot, messing with the parking attendents (had a walkie talkie "There is a big accident in section PQ, some guy just got run over!"), Changing in the car (it had all dark tinted windows no one could see in) after covention to go eat.

  Bad: Actually having to go when Mother In-Law wants to go with us, The god awful smell of the mens room.
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  jeanniebeanz

  LMAO!!! jeanniebeanz - what the hell kind of assembly did you go to???!!! (banjos playing in the backround here......) LOL!

  Believe it or not, that was the make shift arrangement one summer convention at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Ca in, I believe it was 1968-69.

  The park's facilities were over run by the record turnout in excess of 42,000 people. The benches were a work of madness that I only ever saw one more time. It was in a "Camper City" in British Colombia. You can tell how my family traveled... in style... lol

  Jean
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  sassafras

  I was doing some reasearch and pulled out my husbands old Revelation book. It was so hilarious, every single picture inside was "decorated" in some way. The women, especially, had to be embellished with a few extra cup sizes. Most had bullet holes and blood oozing all over. What a good little JDub he was!
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  Beta Male

  the painful, painful Tacoma Dome benches.
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  gaiagirl

  Being told by attendants that my sundress and Dr. Scholls sandals with no hose were "not appropriate" even though the temperature was 85 degrees at 10:30 am. Bringing my own food rather than eat assembly food. Experimenting with OOBE to pass the time of day.
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  jonsey

  ROTFLMAO... too add to the cruzing for babes section...if you have been to the Onondaga County War Memorial assembly...then you know all of the secret passages to the upstairs and not getting caught by the the rovong monitors.

  MJ
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  jeanniebeanz

  lol... I had to look up "oobe"...
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  ohiocowboy

  finding cute guys to look at a few rows ahead

  Jacksonville is where we used to have our District Coventions too. I was baptized there in 1980. Maybe you were one of the cute guys I was checking out a few rows ahead of me???!!!

  I used to work food service there all of the time. If I had a dime for every fruit bag I filled.....

  The cheese Danishes were the best!

  I also used to love going to the very top of the bleachers, and get a birds eye perspective. Actually, occasionally there would be a bird flying around up there. Too bad I never though of shooing it towards the stage, so it would take a dump on the speaker! It would have been fitting from all of the Bulls*** that was spewed from the stage...