Things You Did When Bored To Tears!

by serotonin_wraith 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  serotonin_wraith

  It's been 8 years since I had to go to a meeting so I've forgotten alot of what I did myself, but add to the list what you did if you were a child made to sit still and in silence through the meetings and assemblies.

  *Daydream. I went on amazing journeys with the power of my imagination!

  *Recite entire music albums in my head. Doing the whole thing usually wasted enough time to make it through a Sunday talk.

  *Stare at the carpet. A well made carpet that, though that hair floating around on it was annoying me. Still, maybe I should make a game of who it belonged to.

  *Rearrange the letters of the yearly spiritual banner near the stage to create new exciting words!

  *See if I could count a minute in my head exactly, then check the clock to see how close I was.

  Your turn!
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  Fleshybirdfodder

  My watch had a stopwatch on it, so I would see how long I could hold my breath and then try to beat that record. The trick was not inhaling too hard when I couldn't hold it any longer so as not to draw attention to myself.

  FBF
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  Finally-Free

  I used to check out all the sisters™ to see who had the best boobs.

  W
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  Good Girl or Bad Girl?

  Look around at people when I was really bored (although I always hated it when people were doing that to me so I tried very hard to not do it).

  Pick my fingernails. Even at the last few meetings I was at, at the age of 24, my mom would slap at my hand and shake her head at me if I started picking my nails!

  Write lists. Lists of things I need to do, lists of things I need to buy, grocery lists, lists of things I'd rather be doing. It looks like you are taking notes, but really you are writing lists.

  I would take notes too because I was a good dubby (except for that pesky repeatedly-get-disfellowhipped thingy) but when I got tired of taking notes I would just start writing down random words I heard people saying, either from the stage or in comments, and then write down whatever words I associated with those words they said - so yeah, word association I guess is what they call that.

  I would nod my head along with the speaker. Just kidding, I never did that.

  Girl Who Entertains Herself, and Possibly Only Herself
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  Steve Lowry

  Ok, I haven't thought about this in a long time, but when I was a kid I absolutley hated going the meetings. One night at the meeting, boared to tears, I took the point of a pencil and scratched the inside of my nose when my mother wasn't looking so it would make me sneeze. It worked, and I kept doing it. After about a dozen sneezes and my and faking cold symptoms, my mother cut the meeting short and took me home. Sadly, this only had a one time use. I wasn't allowed any pencils after that. Oh God, I hated those fking meetings with a passiion. It is in my opinion child abuse to make a little kid sit through 2 hour meetings like thise at the KH, twice a week like that, not including the book study meeting and feild service every week.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  In my last few months, when I was on my way out, I used to draw pictures of the brother giving the talk. I'm no artist, but I did improve. Prior to that, I used to actually listen to what was being said, good jw that I was.
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  Gregor

  My buddy, Wayne, and I (both 12 yrs old) found the account of Aholah and Aholibah in Ezekiel Chap.23. (We had King James Bibles) We sat there pointing out various passages to each other and tried to stifle our giggles. This led to us starting a list of all the words for prostitute we could find. I'm sure any onlookers were impressed with our interest in the scriptures.

  I also recall being entertained on a warm Sunday afternoon during a boring talk. A brother a couple of rows in front of me. His head would s l o w l y sink to his chest and then jerk back up as he fought a very severe case of the sleepies. This went on for a long time. Then I look over and saw my Mom shaking and dabbing back tears of laughter. She'd been watching him too!
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  DesertRat

  My earliest & most effective strategy was probably the simplest--I fell asleep.

  When that quit working, I too became rather 'artistic' by adding 'color' to those graphic images in the Paradise book, & that Pepto-Bismol-colored book (Great Teacher???), of people being incinerated at Armageddon..

  By the way, welcome, Serotonin! Glad to have you here..

  DesertRat
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  AlmostAtheist

  Colored in all the circles in all the letters, like O's and e's and P's.

  Drew a grid with enough squares to account for all the paragraphs we were going to slog through, randomly placed numbers in the grid for each paragraph, then hunted down and colored in the square as we completed the paragraph. I waited until we started reading paragraph 7 before coloring in paragraph 6. But if I got WAY bored, I'd color it in early.

  Found some annoying idiosyncrasy of the speaker, then put a tick mark on the page whenever he did it. Like saying "you know" or "ummm".

  Haze up my eyes, then look in the Bible to see those squiggly worms that form vertically in the spaces between the words.

  Count the ceiling tiles horizontally and vertically, then try to estimate how many tiles there were. (Subtracting out light fixtures, half-tile edges, etc)

  I suppose I didn't have Jehopeless's blessing or I would have been able to pay attention to the food at the proper time, eh?

  Dave
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  serotonin_wraith

  
  I wasn't allowed to doodle or fall asleep or anything like that, that would have helped with the boredom.

  It's surprising what your mind comes up with just to keep itself entertained. Another one I did was to pick a number at random and see if I could get it to match with the number of a verse or chapter he'd say next. I had to look up all the scriptures too so if I was out of it, and saw everyone flicking through their bibles, I'd have to pretend I'd found the page and was reading along.