DC Seating (page 3)

lancelink

One year at Hawthorne park in Chicago a young child fell from the 2nd floor walkway, it was unbelievable how the children were running up and down those ramps !

That assembly gave new meaning to the words "Hell on Earth".......I was a youngun then but I remember getting there late (had to drive to the Canadian/US border and then take a bus to the stadium). It was hotter than hell and we had to sit out in the bleachers.......I've got some pictures of us there that my dad took.....I'll see if I can dig them out.......

SirNose586

The last assembly I went to at home was in Rochester NY some friends of mine got our own hotel room within walking distance of the assembly and then we had a scheme! The hall was over crowded and so some people were in the secondary auditorium watching the speaker on a big screen tv. So in the AM we would go over and find out where my parents were sitting and then tell them "oh we're in the other area" as soon as the song was over we would high tail it back to the hotel and hang out at the pool with this hot little life guard... A few minutes before the lunch break we hauled a$$ back and ate then skipped out on the afternoon session. After the whole day was over we would then hang out at the pool with all the witness hotties!
BEST ASSEMBLY SEATING EVER!!!!!!

You lucky bastard. I couldn't ever leave to sit with friends.

asilentone

RR, you never wash your hands?

keyser soze

When I was a teenager, the most bitching seats were at the very top.

blondie

keyser, that is why the WTS had this counsel.

*** km 5/86 p. 4 par. 14 1986 "Divine Peace" District Convention ***At one convention a group of young sisters in their early teens were observed sitting together, apart from their parents. They did not listen to the program or even join in the songs and prayers. Rather, they talked with one another and ate snacks throughout the session, taking little interest in what was being presented from the platform. Their conduct was very distracting to those around them. This illustrates the problems that can develop if parents are permissive and do not sit with or control their children.

WTWizard

It was better they didn't pay attention to the crap from the platform. Maybe if they would have made it worth paying attention, they wouldn't have that problem.

sass_my_frass

This big ridiculous thing seemed to happen at everybodys DC! For my young years our DCs were at a horrid racetrack and that stuff happened a lot, because you could only see the stage from about a quarter of the seating. Finally we moved to a nice new stadium where the only real difference between the seats was the height, so there wasn't really anything worth fighting over. One year though they decided to close off a very large section of the seating so we wouldn't have to clean it afterwards, and that made the rest of the auditorium horribly overcrowded. The only really good thing about that stadium is that there is no special box seating or areas that can be declared the exclusive domain of all the mini princes and their tedious wives. The dome they now use in Sydney is great for conventions but has a few special floors that of course all of the oinkers like to strut around on. I know the guy who has had to guard the gate to the special floor for a few years, and sheez, the stuff he has to deal with.

If I was a godzillionaire I'd buy a permanent box at the Sydney domes and put an enormous banner in the windows during the conventions that says to tens of thousands of people, for three days in a row: "Parents, guard your children today. My abuser was an elder, and he's here." I'd pay a guy to stand in the room all day just watching the teev and not letting any bethel heavies take the sign down.

razorMind

*** km 5/86 p. 4 par. 14 1986 "Divine Peace" District Convention ***At one convention a group of young sisters in their early teens were observed sitting together, apart from their parents. They did not listen to the program or even join in the songs and prayers. Rather, they talked with one another and ate snacks throughout the session, taking little interest in what was being presented from the platform. Their conduct was very distracting to those around them. This illustrates the problems that can develop if parents are permissive and do not sit with or control their children.

Geez......that sounds like that might have been us......

One year at the DC--and I was 16 in 1986--me and my friends took up an entire row at the DC......completely from one end to the other. No parents, just a whole, whole bunch of JW teens. We giggled, passed notes, ate snacks.......and at one memorable point, all fell asleep simultaneously. Just an entire row of teenagers sacked out asleep right smack dab in the assembly. People all the way on the other side of the stadium saw AND complained. BOY, did we get in trouble.

hillbilly

One year at the DC--and I was 16 in 1986--me and my friends took up an entire row at the DC......completely from one end to the other. No parents, just a whole, whole bunch of JW teens. We giggled, passed notes, ate snacks.......and at one memorable point, all fell asleep simultaneously. Just an entire row of teenagers sacked out asleep right smack dab in the assembly. People all the way on the other side of the stadium saw AND complained. BOY, did we get in trouble.

Thanks... kids like you were taking all the pressure off of kids like me.

Did you know that I know every inch of the Mid South Colluseum in Memphis?

Hill

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