My account of a trip to the 1969 District Assembly (page 2)

Virgochik

My aunt and uncle traveled from the midwestern US to a faraway assembly for their big summer vacation. They were going to a foreign country! So exciting, to a child. Would they bring me a souvenir? They attended the 1969 summer assembly in Vancouver, Canada and were fawned over by everyone from the Hall.

Kudra

I love all these narrative accounts of stuff... Bethel, assemblies.
You guys are great writers - and funny to boot!

CORRECTIONS:

Change WONTON women to WANTON women- (were these gals made out of chinese food appetizers or something?!?)

Change FUDGECYCLE to FUDGESICLE, like popsicle (you weren't riding this thing around like a big wheel, were you?)

This is great - more please!
-Kudra

New Worldly Translation

I really enjoyed reading that Runningman, thanks for the chuckles

I liked the mahogany plank bit of the story. That made me laugh cos I had some relatives who were missionaries and they didn't understand kids at all and used to bring back assembly pens or kingdom ministry holders from honduras (what I really wanted was a shrunken head or a blow dart with deadly arrow frog poison). Nothing they brought could compete with a mahogany plank though!

All the best with the book. I hope you'll give us a peek at some more stuff you've written.

William Penwell

I was at the 1969 Vancouver convention. Reading what you wrote brings back memories. As a matter of fact we had a JW family stay at our house that was from Saskatchewan. I remember the sister that was killed by the amusement park train. Also I recall how we watched the moon landing after coming home from the last day of the convention, July 20.

Will

toreador

I was there too but a young pup at the time of about 10. I dont remember all that much except going on the roller coaster.

Tor

outoftheorg

I remember going to that 1969 convention. We drove all the way from San Diego and got there good and tired.

It was raining, on the first day I think and the traffic was heavy. We went up in the stadium and couldn't find seats. I recall one lady glaring at us for trying.

The whole thing pissed me off, which was really easy at that time in my life . Much to my now ex wife's dislike and fussing, I turned around, went back to California and we camped out there.

Our next venture into a Canadian convention was in 1978 and once again lots of rain and it was held in a huge room with a thick curtain like division from another big room with a band playing loud music. All I could hear was the damned drum beat. I stayed for about two hours and then went back, hooked up the camp trailer and headed home to Wyoming for my new job and house.

This was after I resigned the Elder position and the jw's that knew me were either confused about me or disliked me and I returned their actions to them.

Outoftheorg

tetrapod.sapien

LMAO!

Later that day, we arrived in the great city. Now, there are very few things more appealing to an 8 year old than 96 hours of religious lectures, but excitement can be found anywhere.

summer of '69!! FREE LOVE!!! PEACE! HAIR!!! jimi's star spangeled banner! HARE KRISHNA!! OMG:

The play is then lip-synced by a group of carpet layers and window washers in bed sheets and glue-on beards who are so far away that they could only indicate who is speaking by frantically waving their arms.

BWA HA HA HA!!

TS

unclebruce

BRILLIANT Runningman! ROTFL

Full of insane truth - I'm five years older but we lived lives in parallel. From travelling across the continent in a packed car on religious vacation to strange gifts from visiting mighty ones. (I'm real jealous of that mahogany plank!

seeitallclearlynow

I believe that classifying this as the high point says something about how desperate we were for a break in the monotony.

Exactly.

Oh wow; so many years of this! Oh well, could have been worse! Could have been in prison or something. Lol.

observador

RunningMan,
very very good story! I love these accounts that bring back memories.
You see? I was thinking... this could be the way to go about awakening some JWs: showing the foolishness of those assemblies/conventions, the time wasted, the money ill spent, etc. etc. without touching any JW doctrine... humn, just thinking...

You're a clever writer, RunningMan. More, please!

Observador.

My account of a trip to the 1969 District Assembly

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