Back when I was a JW I was born in. Also, in the congregatin I was in from middle school to when I left at 20, with the exception of one guy nobody really talked to except me, I was the oldest of the "young people." Well, amongst he guys anyway. The girls were pretty sperate. Somehow, to just about everyone in my congregation, that made me the leader of our little group. To make matters even worse, all the guys in congregation all had big mouths. I didn't and never ratted anyone else out, ever. Since I was the oldest and assumed leader with a bunch of loud mouths friends, I got in trouble for all kinds of stuff. One thing that really got me is that out of all of my meetings with elders in the back room, not once did they ever ask me whe I learned any of the stuff that I did.
I stole a cassette tape from a store once when one of the guys was with me and I'm in the backroom hearing how evil I am and what a horrible example I set. Got my microphone "privileges" taken away for that one. What I founinteresting was before that L and S (not their real initials) got arrested for stealing video games from Best Buy but nobody ever heard anything about that which was really surprising since L had just gotten baptized a couple weeks before his arrest. Hey, L was the one that taught me how to steal. while they were fun to hang out with I hated to go out in service with them because they were usually so hung over I always had to talk but nobody ever caught onto that. K and E got arrested for breaking into cars and stealing stuff but that was hushed up pretty effectively too. I bring a girl from school over to a buddy's place after school and we all just hang out for a while. That got me in the back room with the elders again and word spreads everywhere about that. D gets a blowjob in the living room at a party over at the same guy's house with lots of other JW's there and nothing happens to him at all. I'm dating a girl from school and if my own kids were doing the stuff that we did, I'd be perfectly fine with it. I got a local needs talk for that one and multiple elder visits over it. The only thing that got them to back off was when the main elder who was after me had his 17 year old daughter announce the week after her big giant JW high school graduation party where everyone showered her with gifts that she was quitting the JW's to move in with the 36 year old manager of the McDonalds she worked at and had been getting it on with for months. Her younger sister ended up working at a porn shop too but i was out so dont know if she got into any trouble for that. I ran into an elder when I was leaving a convenience store with a box of Junior Mints in my hand. I get a very concerned phone call the next day from that elder becue he thought I was carrying a pack of smokes and wanted to talk to me about it before bringing it to the rest of the elders because of the seriousness of what I was doing. I thought that was strange since nobody said anything to P about him smoking outside our hotel when we were at the convention the previous summer. Maybe they just didnt want to touch that because he was also loudly talking about this girl at school he was screwing at the time.
The really fun thing is that all but one of those people look down on me because, while I may be a nurse who works to keep people alive everyday, I'm no longer a JW. And to think, I have family members who just can't understand why I have no desire to come back!