Did you intentionaly make your talks shorter so the meeting would end quick (page 2)

minimus

Collusion....I like that. I wish I could've pulled some "collusion" off.

I spoke of this on another thread, but on Super Bowl Sunday in 1994, the DO went over 20 minutes while including the fact that the "World" was putting their energy in sports and that we should put our's in Jehovah. I just remember everyone watching how I was handling the situation. Playing along, I just put my hands over my face and put my head down to my knee's..........What a childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blondie

One uses less time, the next one goes over. No such thing as a short meeting unless the public speaker unexpectedly failed to show and no one was prepared to substitute. That was only twice in my life. Most often, meetings go over time. I just left, I had a job to get to. There were several others that had to leave who did the same thing.

Blondie (waits for no man)

NewYork44M

Collusion....I like that. I wish I could've pulled some "collusion" off.

This occurred when I was very young, but I still remember. We had a substitute Wt conductor one Sunday and his croony was the reader. There must have been something they had to get to. But in any event, they zipped through the study in about 25 minutes. Best study ever. Don't remember what the study was about but I can still remember the reader jumping up to read the paragraph and then the conductor jumping up to ask the question.

sacolton

DING! Time's up!

bonnzo

i had a book study overseer who always went overtime. he would say things like: "i know this will put me overtime but....." and proceed on . he would get so off subject that he would have to ask a question and preface it with " getting back to the lesson....". i hated that lil' fool.

a c.o. once told me once that if you had the last part and it was 15 min. and everyone else was short and you had 25 min. left, no one complains about going home early, but raise cain about overtime.

Tired of the Hypocrisy

I always tried to give it on time or under. The reason for this was back in the 70s they used to have wt studies with upwards of 35 paragraphs. The idiot wt conductor Sammy L. in Albuquerque would invariably stretch the wt study into a two hour deal. Getting some sisters with unbelieving mates asses kicked. My dad who professed to be of the annointed even said that that sonofabitch Sammy sure can prolong the agony!!

undercover

Well, I never got to give public talks (thank whatever higher being there might be) ...

but I gave Instruction talks and had Service Meeting pats. I never, not once, in all my JW days, ever went overtime. Hell, I wanted it done with so I could get off the stage. I was always short. My worst (or best) was one Instruction talk that was supposed to be 15 minutes and it ended up being 8 minutes. Service Meeting parts were always 4 or 5 minutes short on longer parts. They always allotted 5 to 10 minutes for announcements and I was up and down in 3 minutes flat.

james_woods

When I was doing the watchtower study, if I could see we were going to go overtime, I would just curtail questions on some of the paragraphs and have it read, then move on.

still_in74

no but i would read really fast at the book study!

Did you intentionaly make your talks shorter so the meeting would end quick