by RR 29 Replies latest jw friends
Okay, how many of you got to the convention site nice and early so that you could get the best seats on the house?
Having met in Yankees Stadium (difficult for me as I'm a METS fan) I always made sure I was in the shade. hey someone had to come in early and make those Watchtower hoagies (by the way, I never washed my hands)
RR
Hey RR
hey someone had to come in early and make those Watchtower hoagies (by the way, I never washed my hands)
No wonder you turned out apostate.
Did the prepare food early "hook" to get five seats for my family. They were above an entrance to the main floor of the Mad City site. Just the right amount of seats for the family so we could get up anytime to walk around the hallways without getting the "snake eye" from anyone we had to politely ask to move past.
brzfst
Actually the food workers eventually were not supposed to be let into the seating area before the rest were allowed in the building. Of course they were already in the building and a little closer when the go ahead signal was given so snagged up the good seats a little sooner....
Virtually every family of the "strong" active witnesses had a friend or family member
on the volunteer list. The volunteer would go to the auditorium at 7:58 because nobody
was allowed to save seats before 8 AM. As the crowds were running in from the
outer doors at 8:00 and arrived in the auditorium a minute or two later, they would find
that the lunch workers, the attendants, the cleaners, the chairman, etc. were already
marking the prime seats for their loved ones.
"Weak" JW's who didn't have any volunteers in the family had to sit behind all the
"strong" JW's. Personally, a chair is a chair. No matter where I sat, I could hear. It
wasn't worth all that pushing and shoving.
Nothing was worse then finding premo seats only to see the dreaded Watchtowers, Awakes and coats draping over the seat or the back side of the seat and of course the teenager who has to sit and watch out to make sure no one just moves them up one row or something. LULZ.
It wasn't worth all that pushing and shoving.
No truer words have ever been spoken.
BONEZZ
I had a fractured ankle and hobbled into the assembly on crutches. Not one person would offer me a seat up front for me. They ran passed me to grab the seat I was going for and then just looked at me in disgust. I knew right then there was no brotherly love in this false religion.
I remember one year I was there as an attendant...whose job was to keep the early birds from saving seats before the 800 am cattle call.
There was one self-righteous bastard (SRB) that insisted that he had the right to save a seat early for he and his family since he was in "Administration" (at one time, Admin brothers even had special badges identifying themselves in that elite crew...all of the big wheels in the district).... he was such an ass about it.... essentially, Admin people were not to be questioned and were allowed to go anywhere in the facility....so I guess the "rules" didn't apply to him...or so he thought....
....too bad for him the convention overseer (also in admin) was a friend of mine....funny how word got to him about the SRB saving seats. if looks could kill..I woulda been DOA....
Meanwhile, as SRB was down in the bowels of the convention center being important in Admin, and kissing up to some visiting GB or other Bethel speaker, his books somehow made their way to lost and found. I dont know HOW THAT happened. Bummer for his family.... next morning, his wife was there at 8 saving seats ....lol...funny...SRB stayed camped out down in the admin dungeon....never did sit in his saved seat...as the single mom with 3 kids under age 6 and a UBM that gave her hell before she left was searching for seats up in nosebleed with the pidgeons...selfish SRB....
Ah....the memories ::gasp, gag,::::
Snakes ()
I normally didn't care where I sat, all I cared about was not sitting in the sun, and believe me when you're at Yankee Stadium and it;s 90 degrees, you can't even focus right. I usually grabbed the first seat that was in the shade. When I didn't come in early, the worse seats were way up front in the sun or the nose bleed section with partial shade.
I recall one day during the drama, a few of the actors fainted, attendants were hosing down everyone, of course the speakers were under a nice canapy in the shade and a fan blowing.
RR
