Back in the time when I was a publisher (say, about 2-3 years ago), everyone was wondering why, exactly, I was taking so long to get baptized. On the one hand, I made some "excellent" number 2 talks, and on the other hand, at home... I... sinned, alone in my room. Whatever. Anyways, there was this brother who would always nag me about my baptism after my talks, even when we would just meet at the Hall. The idiot (ex-elder) always asked me something like, "So, with that talk of yours, and with all the knowledge (hahahaha) that you have, surely you want to get baptized?" And on it went, for months at a time. That brother was finally one of the reasons I stopped being a publisher. I was tired of him and a couple others nagging me all the time to raise the bar from "publisher" to "baptized publisher". No coercion, my @$$.
Of course, I wasn't the kind of guy to fool around with. Especially not by one particular elder, with which I had a couple arguments (nothing too serious, one was about a brother at an Assembly who had said something to the effect that the Simpsons was a wordly influence). Since I was only a "publisher", I didn't see the harm in arguing with him. Anyways, to get right to the point... after a "service meeting", we met at the entrance of the KH, where he asked me, "So, did you have any good visits lately?" To which I replied, nonchalantly, "No." And to which he said, "Well, I've had two very (accent on the very) good visits lately. One was with a nice lady, which is..." His monologue was cut off by some other brother who was asking him to come along. Now, I knew perfectly well what his intentions were... to encourage me, and all. However, the way he said it didn't come out that way. He sounded like if he was laughing at me or something. After all the things he'd done to piss me off, this was the last straw. For my next number two talk, for which he was the "counselor", I made a talk tailor-made and adjusted just for Him, and HIM only. My introduction was essentially what he had said to me... I applied the verses and discussed about how one feeling superior over another and saying things like the above could ruin a constructive encouragement and degenerate into arrogance. Ha. Of course, it was arrogant of me to do something like that, but hey. He was the only one who could realize I was talking about him. He excused himself after the meeting. And you'd better believe I've never felt so good in a long, long while.