Car Group Visited Today

LB

Just when I thought I was almost over being angry my "brothers" got my blood going again. My wife and I were polite, saying at first it was good to see them after so long and the first thing the elder in the group said was..."well you know where to find us, at the kingdom hall." Well normally I'm fairly mild mannered, but, that just got under my skin. So I told him "really? I usually see your car outside the bar in town". Got the forced laugh of course.

What really got me was one of the newly interested ones in the car. Seems this "brother to be" is out in service these days. His ex-wife is a dear friend of ours and was DFed after leaving him and getting a boyfriend. they were married for more than 20 years. He abused her, treated her like garbage and made her feel worthless. So now all her old friends shun her (for her own good) and this piece of human trash is their friend. Oh that gives me the warm fuzzies.

*deep breath here*

Anyway I no longer wanted to spend time with them so without saying a word I walked past them and went to the barn. My poor wife was left behind to make good-byes.

patio34

Hi LB,

Good job!

Pat

lauralisa

Hi LB,

Sounds like another typical day of field service: driving around from one end of the territory to another, gossiping and wasting their time engaging in useless random acts of absurdity. The motives for the vast majority of jw is NOT to 'help lost people', imo.... it is merely the accummulating of numbers to hand in at the end of the month.

Your story triggered my recollection of HATING field service. I always felt trapped, stuck in a car with weirdos who scared me. Now - after reading countless posts similar to yours - I have a better understanding of why it felt so threatening... so many people who pass as jw's have hearts made of rocks and would kill you for six pieces of a doughnut.

Welcome to the board

lauralisa

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Latte

LB

Was the car group enjoying a flask of coffee and biscuits? (mind the spills now!)
……You’ve got to feel sorry for them haven’t you? (teehee)

Just think, that a least you are not wasting your time anymore! It is annoying though when they patronise you like saying “we really miss you at the KH “ Which really means “You can always come back you know” Yeah right!

Bye the way, are you in the UK? Just wondering as it’s typical British JW style to drive around in a car group in the cold weather.

And welcome LB!

Lauralisa,

DITTO!...........Makes me feel ill the thought of driving around doing 'calls'

joelbear

Since my father was a congregation servant when I was a kid I remember these car group shepherding call.

You would always find the people busy with something else, the witnesses being the furtherest thing from their minds.

How simply rude it is to show up at somebody's house unannounced in order to subtlely chatise someone in their own home.

Joel

LB

Ahhh, hating field service. I sure did. Once I got a talking too for singing a Janis Joplin song while out in a car group. The one where she is asking God to buy her stuff. That was pretty evil of me.

LB

I'm in the USA and up here in the northwest they also employ the drive around techinque. It's a rural area here so the normal goal is two houses per person in the car. The normal prayer is Please, don't be home.

Oh and as a note, later in the evening my wife told me that I was way too polite to the jerk. That the man she married would normally have thrown him off the property and she's wondering if I'm going to return to being a man anytime soon.

jayhawk1

This sure brings back memories. Memories of when my mother went inactive and the JWs showed up to "incourage" her by telling her how badly she needed to be at the meeting. Also reminding her how close we are to the end. You know, it is any minute now, so hurry back before it is too late.

Also memories of my own "ministry". I loved the territory Glencoe East. The territory was twenty square miles and under 10 houses. If you "worked" this territory in the middle of the week, you might get one person at home. So the next week you go back to it, mind you it was nearly fourty minutes from the Kingdom Hall (counting time the whole way) and work the not at homes. Ahhh, those were the days.

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dungbeetle

hi LB--welcome to the board.

The good old days, when I trudged door-to-door thinking that I was in 'bible education' work...

<gag>

BITE ME, WATCHTOWER!!!

OUTLAW

Hey LB,they avoid my house like the plague.You just gota chew on them a little,Good job!...OUTLAW

Car Group Visited Today

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