Sleeping at assemblies and conventions (page 4)

Woofer

Well if she was she never offered any . .damn old stingy woman.

merfi

I wouldn't fight sleep because I thought I'd miss some 'spiritual food', I fought sleep because I was afraid what everyone else would think.

I am so not going to DC this year... Skipped out of the SAD yesterday, so am in practice. :) I just can't see wasting three days of mid-summer (jeepin, swimmin, reading and drinking beer on my deck...), wasting a few hundred dollars on motel, food, gas etc only to be SHUNNED by 6000 "friends". Nope, ain't gonna do it.

~merfi

kid-A

Entirely depended on the venue. At the Norval assembly hall in Ontario, the seats were actually very comfortable and the ambiance was dim (both the lighting and the intellectual level!)

making it an excellent environment for sleeping. The DCs however, were in horrid, hot, hard-ass plastic chairs at sports stadiums, making it almost impossible to doze off, no matter how tired or bored you

were. I'm sure the planning committee takes this into account when selecting convention venues.

luna2

It would be pretty funny if somebody fell asleep at the Memorial. 'Course it's only an hour long and you have to sing and pass stuff so I suppose a person should be able to stay awake for the whole thing.

undercover

The most experienced dubs can still turn up scriptures in the Bibles whist pushing out the zzzz's - reflex action I guess.

Darn...and to think that I was fooling people. I thought that I had perfected the looking-up-scriptures-in-your-sleep routine and that it was a skill that I alone had achieved.

The poop line to the bathroom after lunch was so long most brothers missed the first hour of the program anyways.

That was the great thing about having the convention in your hometown (which we did for several years), having gone to the coliseum for years for many other events, I knew the place inside and out. I knew the tunnels underneath where there were bathrooms that most people didn't know about. I don't konw 'bout ya'll, but when I get the hoagie/shasta shits, I like a little private time in the bathroom.

kid-A

I don't konw 'bout ya'll, but when I get the hoagie/shasta shits, I like a little private time in the bathroom

LMAOROFL @ UC !!!! Oh man, priceless. Yes I remember the shitter lines after lunch....for myself, exposure to the constant stream of feces coming from the speakers mouths on stage inevitably made me

constipated!!!!

MinisterAmos

At the last circuit assembly I had any interest in, I made my appearance at 845, and was back in my RV in the parking lot at 900. A-C on clothes off and in bed ¨taking care of¨ my two year old daughter. I was well rested for lunch.

Well they DID tell me to keep her quiet.

undercover

was back in my RV in the parking lot at 900.

Now that would be the way to go to a convention (if you still had to go for appearance sakes). Park an RV in the parking lot, show up for the intermissions, hang around and check out the skirts, then when the talks start back up, head back to the RV for some refreashments , take a nap and then come back and watch from a safe corner of the concourse/lobby as the dubs stampede to get the latest release.

Dr Jekyll

<----------- NEVER FALLEN ASLEEP AT AN ASSEMBLY

cruzanheart

I'm old enough to remember being at the 1958 convention in New York, and sleeping through most of it. (I was 2 1/2.) To this day, I can't listen to an audio book in the car because I'll fall asleep! Business seminars are hard for me too, but usually I'm actually interested in the subject matter so my mind doesn't wander too badly.

I am SOOOOOO glad those days are history!

Nina

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