by greengirl8 2 Replies latest jw friends
(also known as garage sale, yard sale)
I couldn't help but notice that there was a large stack of Watchtowers and Awakes piled high on the kitchen table. Under a Catholic icon picture. Person had obviously been very sick and had lots of religious books of all sorts around the house.
I could imagine this person being subjected to return visits ad nauseum as he/she was most likely housebound and hungering for company, answers, etc.
No evidence that they were ever disdovered...
Brings back memories of a man that a sister had called on in field service. She was very enthused about his interest in our message and he was ready for a Home BS. She came to me because I had met 'Harvey' in a backcall with her and she wanted me to take on the BS. I did. Turned out he agreed with everything and wanted all the publications he could get. I picked him up for meetings and we had him over for dinner. He lived in a modest little house about 2 miles from where we lived. Every so often he would just show up, having walked over.
(Cut to the chase, Gregor!)
OK, so he turned out to be a savant. His specialty were dates, weather of the day on that date and could name the date of the second wednesday in January ten years ago.
Finally, one day, It was at his house for our BS. He took me into a back room to show me his "library". He had rows of the Watchtowers brightly colored books. All lined up by color. Like, 15 "Truth" books (dark blue) so on and so forth. At least a dozen pristine copies of every release for the last 10 years. He was very pleased with his rainbow. He hadn't learned shit from any of our efforts. I dropped him like a hot potato.
A couple of years ago I was in charge of an op shop , one of many in our town.One day I came in and somebody had dropped off about 15 VCR`s of the societys tapes .I didn`t make a decision straight away as to what to do with them .The next day when I came in with the intention of dumping them , a co-worker had made an executive decision and had already dumped them in the garbage . What could I say . Good decision .
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