I usually just cleaned the terlits prior....wife somtimes made the toast...........oompa
i just pretty much always had issues with it.....
Pecking order of Memorial jobs
by Open mind 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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SnakesInTheTower
In the congo that I was assigned to in rural southern Illinois (after graduating MTS), the Secretary's wife was Head Elderette. She was over providing the table cloth, crystal wine glasses, fine bone china, crackers and wine for the Memorial..it was her Easter, her time to shine.
I was never there for the Memorial as I was only there 4 months, not during the Memorial season. During the short time I was there, the congo was doing a fall cleaning. I ran across this very exquisite set of china and glasses in a cabinet along with this fine linen cloth... very expensive. I asked about it and was told the story. I told the elders (the PO and the Secretary and the new SO) to "remove it from the KH as it is a huge liability if it comes up missing or damaged and that besides it was entirely too ostentatious for such a somber occasion..and this was for the Memorial not a dinner party to impress a foreign dignatary." You would have thought that I had tossed the Pope's chalice into the sewer. OMG there was an uproar. CO backed me..he knew nothing of this "extra."
I did it, not because I gave a crap about the glasses, etc...I didn't....but because that sister was an evil bit#h that made people in the congregation miserable and refused to share anything with others that would take the shine off of her self-appointed "Mother" status. The following Memorial, the sister and her Secretary husband had moved FAR away...with their precious dishes...to cause misery elsewhere..much to the relief of their old congo...
LOL.... so sad... I heard the congo has since been dissolved...6 years later...guess 3 MTS elders couldnt fix that bunch...
Snakes ()
ps...as a side story about this same congo....it was at this same KH fall cleaning that I cleared out the CIA files of the secretary in the KH office...after a 2 month battle to get the file key which involved the CO pulling rank to get me the key..... I pulled 2 Hefty garbage bags FULL out to be burned. In these files were all kinds of personal details about each person in the congo kept over the decades..very personal minute, sometimes embarrasing, details... the secretary had already created a file on me...J Edgar Hoover had nothing on this old creep. He was hot that I had gotten into his file...I asked if the CO knew about the file....that was the end of the discussion....lol..no wonder the elders hated me and most of the publishers loved me......
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quietlyleaving
for sisters - it was usually the sis who could iron tablecloths the best and who could at the same arrrange beautiful flowers and keep the wineglasses spotless. Once such a sis was found she had the job for life. Most of us used to think thank goodness they found such a person.
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wannaexit
Memorial sound brother - very important--the sound has to be absolutely perfect on the lord's night. Not too high frequency and not to low frequency.
Memorial chair setter --- very low but not as low as memerial bathroom cleaners.
extra toilet paper-buying brother-- very very low. Most of his job is done at the local super centre--not even under god's roof.
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NewYork44M
I always loved the theatrics associates with passing the bread and the wine. Nothing is more entertaining than at the end where the servers hand off the items to each other and then the speaker gets involved with passing the bread and wine back to the servers.
It is as if the was something sacred about the passing the emblems.
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WTWizard
I wonder who gets to clean the toilets before the Black Sabbath event, and after it.
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stillajwexelder
I have done all the jobs
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stillajwexelder
BTW there is another "runner -up " prize. The speaker at the special talk. Usually if you were in the running for memorial speaker and somebody else got the job, then the runner-up prize was to do the special talk a week or two later
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Quandry
Years ago, the KHall that I attended in Jacksonville, Florida, had a special rehearsal for the songs to be sung for the memorial. I did love to sing, though, and enjoyed it.
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awaken2004
"do not forget the EYE CANDY - all those sisters in their new polyester dresses".
That is so funny!
What is this new chairman letter?