Remember the food tokens at conventions!!

by haujobbz 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  Stephanus

  I never understood this aversion to paying taxes by the WBTS. Surely, if they make $2 on something, even if the Govt. taxed them 50%, they'd at the end of the day they'd still have $1 more than before. Are they that into bastardry that they begrudge even paying a small amount of tax to a govt? And yet they are always writing about how worldly govts praise the Dubs for being great taxpayers! It's a little extreme to take away the one thing that made conventions tolerable just to make an idiotic point. Can the tapering off of peoples' enthusiasm for convention be traced directly back to when food service stopped?

  You'd think in an attempt to get interest back from the R&F that they'd have food back at conventions and a cuppa out the back as an aid for a chinwag after meetings. It would cement friendships within the group and perhaps make people look more kindly towards the leadership. Real shepherds meet the material (and social) needs of their flocks.
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  sleepy

  I remmeber that the pioneers had free tokens for food.While poor families with lots of kids would have to by their own or bring sandwiches.

  Its good that the society got their priorities right.I wonder if the governing body ever gave their own tokens to someone needy and made sandwiches for themselves?I think not.
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  Knotty_boy

  Oh yes!! I remember the only way my parents could drag me out of the hotel swimming pool, from an early morning swim, to go sit for hours, was w/ the promise of hot egg and cheese muffins, and Vanilla Swiss Miss puddin'!!!

  My family always carried that infamous super sized book bag, that must have weighed about 300 lbs.. was like a big box.. and kept the assembly food coupons inside, and during the mornings when they would go around visiting w/ all the people, I would help myself to $10 worth, to spend at my leisure throughout the day!!!! After the convention was over on Sunday, I didnt ever want to see another hoagie sandwich for months!!!!!!!
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  Pistoff

  OMG you are tripping me out over here....I just remembered the food coupons, in ten cent increments.
  At our local circuit sleepers, we had three mexican sisters who made the best tacos you have ever eaten, three for a dollar; those made for a long afternoon sitting. To do it, you needed at least three cups of that strong coffee they made.
  *sigh*
  I miss it
  I loved working in the trucking department too.......got out of school friday afternoons, worked till wee hours, drank coffee till we shook; though sadly we missed some of our spiritual refreshment.
  Remember the pre-convention work? Hours of sawing up lumber to make tray supports, benches, tents, etc.......
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  simplesally

  It didn't have to do with taxes, it had to do with the venue of the Convention. The vendors that had contracts with the various stadiums wanted to serve food to us......some of the contracts that the vendors had with the stadiums/sites were that they had the right to serve/sell food to anybody that rented the site if food was going to be served.

  This is why we had our conventions at Dodger Stadium because we were allowed to serve food without the vendors having to also be there. But if we didn't have food service, and brought our own, we could rent places that had AIR CONDITIONING!! So we were finally allowed to be at Long Beach Convention Center where it was indoors because we were not offering food.....everyone was bringing their own, therefore no vendors were allowed to open the doors and sell their wares.