Hilarious, Crazy, or Weird Field Service Experiences - Did You Have Some ?

by flipper 15 Replies latest jw friends

  • flipper
    flipper

    Hello folks. I've seen variants of this before on this site , but I've been starting such serious topics lately such as death and non belief in the org. felt I needed to get some humor out and exhale a bit ! So here it goes.

    I'll share in chronological order my weirdest and craziest experiences. When I first started service at 8 years of age, my very first door another kid and myself got a Penecostal lady at the door . Immediately she starts speaking unintelligible babble which I couldn't understand ! Me and the kid looked at each other and screamed,"she's demonized ! " My mom was waiting on the street and we ran, full speed to the street . My next experience came at age 25 approximately . A brother and myself walked up to this door, closing the chain linked gate behind us . When about up to the door , this huge a$$ german shepherd dog runs at us fangs snarling ! Immediately, the brother and I look at each other making a run for the gate we had closed ! We had no time to open it , had to jump the fence about 4 feet high ! I made it over like a world class pole vaulter , my Bible and bookbag falling all over the sidewalk , my partner however got hung up on top of the fence , and I grabbed him by the arm pulling him over with me. We laid there laughing our rears off !

    Next weird experience , actually kinda nice was a brother and myself rang a bell , we being young and virile at 25 years of age, and a lady , ( attractive I might add ) came down the stairs buck naked , wearing nothing but her skin, obviously expecting someone else to come to her door other than 2 witness guys ! She shook her hands and went Oh!, turned around and ran upstairs ! We stood there a minute, trying to digest the moment. The brother asked me, " Should we leave then ? " I said, " No. I don't think so. She needs to hear the good news too ! " So I knocked again ! Obviously she didn't come back for the second coming of Christ ! Oh well, wicked guy I was !

    The last weird experience happened in mountainous territory. No, it wasn't a Bigfoot experience LOL, I was 27 at the time and was knocking on this cabin door. While standing on the front porch a billy goat with horns comes walking up to me curious about what's in my bookbag . The goat starts eating my Awake and Watchtower magazines , I tried shooing him away , but he just kept munching down . So I pull my bookbag away from him , then he turns away , then turns back to me lowers his head and wham! tries to gore me in my groin area ! Fortunately, Mr. Flipper was fast enough in reaction time to block the family jewels from getting rammed with my bookbag in front of me ! But the goat rammed my bookbag , tearing a 4 inch gash in the bag ! That's one goat I wish I could have sawed the horns off of , literally ! Anyway it was fun !

    So tell me your crazy, hilarious or just plain weird experiences. Would love to hear from you ! It's a miracle any of us are alive at all after doing the door to door trot all those years ! Look forward to hearing from you

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    We were "vacation pioneering" one summer in Vermont. My mom & I were talking to a lady in her yard, and a bird landed on my mom's head. The lady busted up laughing...and my mom couldn't get it off...it held on to her hair for dear life. I couldn't help her...I was laughing too hard. She eventually untangled the thing and if flew away.

    Coffee

  • AWAKE&WATCHING
    AWAKE&WATCHING

    My friend lost her wrap-around skirt to the wind and went running after it in the Pizza Hut parking lot.

    Another time she had knee high hose on that you could see when she walked. Another sister demanded that she go get some pantyhose. She did and put them on in the car while someone was on a call. Well she tucked her skirt in the back of the hose and proceeded up the street. It was hilarious. After that it didn't seem quite so embarrassing when we saw her knee highs.

  • Casper
    Casper

    I had a return visit that I referred to as the "Circus People". They lived in a run down
    trailer park. Single wide trailer, each time I went back there was a "New Act".

    The first time the door was ans. by young girl with a snake wrapped around her neck..!
    The next a "Little Person" ans. he was standing on his hands.

    I was invited in once. There were 3 guys doing some kind of acrobatics in the
    living room… one was standing on the others shoulders.

    The "Lady" of the house, the one I talked to when invited in, was dressed in
    ruffles and lace, with lots of bows. She had long black Shirley Temple curls in her
    hair with big red bows tied around her head. She was an older lady and rather
    large.

    But, all in all they were very nice to me, and always took the mag.

    Oh, they also had a Pot Belly Pig for a pet… he had free run of the trailer…

    The Circus finally left town tho...

    Talk about a Car Group Conversation piece….!!!!

    Cas

  • erynw
    erynw

    Working a rural territory in central US. Came upon a rather run down trailer, lots of stuff in the yard, old appliances, rusted out cars, goats. I go to knock on the door with a brother, my turn to do the selling witnessing. Around the corner of the trailer comes the most hillbilly-est looking man I'ver seen in my life. I turn to go down the steps to introduce us and begin my spiel. The trailer-holder says, "What y'all doing way out here by yerselfs."

    Before I could say anything, we, Brother Chicken-Sh*t and I, hear a strange hissing coming from the other end of the trailer. We turn, slo-motion like, and see Bubba Jr standing there with, and I ain't lying, an alligator on a rope. A huge frickin' alligator. I go to turn towards Bro CS and he is no where to be found. He was right beside me a second ago.

    I look and I see him doing his best roadrunner impersonation as he hot foots it to the car. Before I can get one foot off of the top of the steps, I hear the car start up. What?!?! Then I hear Bro CS turn the key again, after the car is started and it makes that weird grinding noise. I head down the steps keeping my eye on gator boy and I swear I'm hearing Bro CS put the car in gear. I double-timed it to the car and got the door open, step between the open door and the car, and Papa trailer-holder is standing right at the front of the car.

    Bro CS starts backing up, while I am between the car door and the car. I lean in and say, "Listen here you son of a bitch, move this car one more inch and I swear to Jehovah I'll go to the elders and tell them you and I are having an affair." He stopped the car. The two sisters in the back seat had their lower jaws in their lap. (We weren't by the way.)

    I looked at Papa trailer-holder and said, "Well, I'll assume you're not interested in a return visit.", sat down in the car, and gave Bro CS the silent treatment all the way back to the KH. Whenever I could, I would walk up behind him and hiss.

  • NewYork44M
    NewYork44M

    I went to this door. The householder opened the door with the intention of yelling at me for bothering his quiet Saturday morning. Immediately after the door opens the family's pet bird flies out the opened door. He screams and the daughter comes running screaming out the door. The whole morning the man's daughter was walking through the neighborhood crying for her bird and cursing those witnesses who let the bird leave the house.

  • BabaYaga
    BabaYaga

    All of these have been great, but Erynw... you just about KILLED ME!!!

    ~whEw!!!~ Oh man my stomach hurts!

    hahahhahaaaaaaaa!!!
    Baba

  • REBORNAGAIN
    REBORNAGAIN

    I once went alone to a door of a mobile home (others waited in the car). It had a very tacky self-made porch to the main door, just a small thing, but sufficient in size. I knocked at the door a couple of times, no answer. So I decided to head back to the car. As soon as I got in the car, slammed the door shut, out from underneath that porch came a mad and mean looking pitbull. OMG...was God's angels protecting me? He was right underneath me just a min earlier. Believe me, he was MEAN looking. *yikes* To this day, obviously I haven't forgotten that.

    LINDA

  • REBORNAGAIN
    REBORNAGAIN

    One more experience and I am sure I am not alone in this. How many of you have been to a house in which the WHOLE yard (front in my case and back) was totally saturated in just about every square inch with dog crap? *yuck* Then we get to the door, and the whole enclosed porch that we had to walk through to knock on the main door looked just as bad, with garbage among the crap as well. *barf* We have tolerated a lot haven't we?

    LINDA

  • PopeOfEruke
    PopeOfEruke

    erynw

    thats a classic! Were you a "Brother" or a "Sister"?

    Pope

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