How did you get out of sitting through the Convention?

by Confucious 25 Replies latest jw experiences

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  lovelylil

  when my kids were babies and even older, I would take them outside for a break that usually lasted about 4 or 5 hours. Also, I would go outside and visit with friends, get coffee, sit in the car and listen to the radio. Any council to not do these things would just get me and my friends laughing. All in all, it was not a very bad day.

  Don't get me wrong, in the beginning of my sentence in the borg. I actually tried to sit through the conventions but when I knew it was all baloney, it just got more difficult.

  Once my husband and I while up at Amherst MA, took a long lunch drive to have the kids see some Bison nearby. It was such a nice day, we decided to go to the farmers market afterwards.

  I hated the conventions so much that I would have panic attacks the week before. The last one we went to I told my hubby if one more "brother" tells me I should be in my seat, I am going to punch him out!
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  pratt1

  Volunteered to be an attendant.

  Not only did you not sit down, but all the sisters who were blind as you, thought you were a good catch, so you were alway entertained.
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  lisavegas420

  double post
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  lisavegas420

  when I was a preteen and a teen, I would work on the food lines. I got to leave my seat early and get back late. Then that was stopped...

  then later I had children and would have to take them out alot..they got wiggly....so I had to take them out a whole lot.

  lisa
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  Mulan

  For the summer conventions, we parked our RV on site, and spent most of the sessions in the RV chatting with others who were doing the same. That was just the last two conventions. Finally we didn't go.

  Dave was always a department head, so we got a space right there. It saved me, the last two conventions. After he resigned as an elder, and we weren't going to be able to park on site, we skipped it.

  One time, a young girl, daughter of friends, was taken to the hospital, and almost died. She had congestive heart failure, and we spent most days with them. Everyone else came after the sessions. We had studied with them, and they needed us. That was in 1996. She is still alive, but on borrowed time. She also has Down's syndrome. That was a real learning experience............the hospital wanted to give her blood, and the liason committee told us to let them do it. There was nothing anyone could do to stop it anyway, and they didn't want the publicity.
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  XJW4EVR

  At one DC in Amarillo, TX, my dad was assigned to security (the yellow highlighter over the Attendant lapel badge). I got to roam all the nooks & crannies of the Amarillo Arena. Such fun!
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  under_believer

  Same as lil. Take the kids on a break.
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  loosie

  I would go down to the dugouts and count the money from the contribution boxes, with about 40 other bros and sis. In the dugouts you can't hear the speaker. man what a relief it was.
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  lisavegas420

  I would go down to the dugouts and count the money from the contribution boxes, with about 40 other bros and sis. In the dugouts you can't hear the speaker. man what a relief it was.

  WTH???? You counted money DURING the assembly.... Wonder why why wouldn't pipe the speakers in the dugouts...we could still hear them in the bathrooms.. lisa
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  KW13

  i got bored, tired, hot.