Well, I remember this goofy elder in the local KH I used to attend. One elder in particular was a real piece of work. His poor handicapped wife, who was extremely nice, was ruled by him with an iron hand. He was such a prick. I remember going over to there house once for dinner. My wife starts talking to his wife, asking about there house, etc. and she starts talking about how she had a lot of land given to her by her family and she sold it to pay for the house, etc. and was immediatly cut off by him. I know everyones finances are there own business but that was not called for. You could tell she liked nice things, and in fact she grew up in a wealthy family, though you would never know by her sweet attitude, but her elder husband made them live like paupers. There tv must have been 50 years old. So we are over there for dinner and he wips out a movie from 1940, which is his favorite We had brought movies, which were not bad (one was pg 13), just had some action. You could tell she wanted to watch them, but he put his foot down. So in a nut shell that was the last time we went over there.
She passed a couple of years ago. Well he re marrys a woman from Mexico who CANNOT speak a freakin' lick of english. My wife said that he watches her like a hawk at the meetings and when talking with her (my wife speaks spanish) she said that her husband bought her the EXACT same car (color, model, etc.) that he had, even though she kept telling him she didn't want it. Then my wife said she caught him checking out other sisters during the meeting. I'm like WTF?!? This guy is an elder and is blatantly a fruit cake.
I guess I will never understand the mentality of some JW's.
Here's another one. The PO of the cong I used to attend had a very sickly wife. He and his wife were very sweet and would go out of there way to help anyone. Anyway, his wife dies and he is left on his own. Lo and behold her comes a sister who my family has known well. She used to be married into a VERY wealthy snobby family (I had the honor of dating a member of this family before I realized I needed to bail). Well she sees this as the perfect opportunity to get her life long dream, this brother. She marries him and promises him the world. Mind you he has 3 or 4 kids from his previous marriage, some as young as 16 years old. The minute they get married, she forces him to kick out all of his kids, including the underage ones. She then forces him to sell there old house. She also forces him to throw away all things related to his previous wife. She forces him to go to another congregation (this is the congregation she used to attend when married into the snob family, and they still attended this cong). His kids were so pissed at him that they moved out on there own (they were regular pioneers before all this happened and didn't have the means to support themselves - what a wake up call) I will not talk to him. Yet, he is Mr. elder and she is elderette at there new hall. I really do not know how he can live with himself. I could never betray blood.