Witnesses at Target

Aunty

Is this happening anywhere else? I'm in Southern California and the jw's are sitting outside Target at least twice a week with a table set up. Okay, when I was pioneering, this was a big no-no. You weren't allowed to just "sit around" and get your time in. Anyway, I think it's amusing to see what lengths they're going to these days to get people to take info.

Dawn

Can you get cookies with your WT?

apostate man

Target allows this? Are they insane? Popcorn is one thing but Religion?

SYN

Damn Dubs are getting lazy again. Time for a Circuit Overbeer visit, I see!

[SYN], UADA - Unseen Apostate Directorate of Africa - For Great Justice!

Dutchie

Hi Aunty: I was shocked one day when I was on my way to work to see that a couple of women had set up a table down in a subway station and the table was covered with WT literature. They weren't approaching people, just sitting there in folding chairs. Inventive way to get in your time, huh?

Francois

I still prefer slowing down to about 65 mph as I pass the front door of a laundromat, tossing in an old "Truth" book (better trajectory than a magazine, don't you know?) to get my time started, then repair to a booth in the Waffle House for the remainder of the morning.

Working the rurals was much the same. Repeat step one, above. Then drive to the rurals, way, way out in the sticks. So far out in the sticks that by the time you get there, it's time to go back.

Francois

Stephanus

There is an old bloke who sets up a Watchtower magazine stand in Town Hall station in Sydney. He's done so for many years. Actually, there are several people who operate that stand at various times: two old blokes and a middle-aged woman.

Aunty

I was pretty inventive too when pioneering. We always did the laudromat starting time thing or killing a few hours in the pm by going to nursing homes. I'm just surprised they're set up like regular solicitors. What if someone mistakes them for the Salvation Army?! I always want to strike up a conversation, but then I think why make them work for their time?

Today's pioneers - they have it so easy. We had to walk 5 miles in the snow when I was pioneering! [8>]

Dogpatch

I always did the stuff that no one else wanted to do, like large apartments that had evil landlords. :-))
Few would go with me except the die-hard pioneers.

I remember blitzing Los Angeles airport with 600 magazines, passed out one by one, to people walking in the terminals. Two of us did it in 30 minutes.

I was so fanatical that when I went on hiking trips, I would hide "Truth" books in Yosemite camping areas, etc.

It was bliss to be ignorant and think that all this crap was really true! I used to take the subways alone often to East Brooklyn, sometimes late at night to be with the friends or elders meeting, and I would be the only white guy around. Don't think I would do that now! :-))
Randy Watters

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Dutchie

Goodness Randy, East Brooklyn? You were a fanatic!

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