Forget pizza! No coolers? The WTB&TS is scared of the "unthinkable."
I think I will order a complete meal brought in by the NSA. What are they going to do?
Answer: NOTHING!
No Food Coolers at Assemblies!
by VM44 50 Replies latest jw friends
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TresHappy
I remember one particular assembly in Fort Worth when they still met at Will Rogers Coliseum and it was horribly hot. The man behind me took some bottled water out of his cooler and gave it to me. That was the nicest random act of kindness ever done to me at an assembly. Coolers were the norm and I really never noticed anyone bringing huge contraptions.
These attempts to regulate everyone and their behavior is nothing new. The WT just keeps recycling the same old thing, over and over.
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Mulan
It's not enough to get the kids up, fed and clothed to get the assembly, now you have to prepare and pack a lunch, and bring it in a too small cooler.
And what if you are staying in a hotel? Most of them don't allow food preparation, so how can you make sandwiches? Didn't the KM even tell us not to prepare food in the hotel rooms?
We had our RV parked on site, for the last 10 years we went to conventions, so it was no biggie for us. We literally ran to our RV at session's end, or before, to put our feet up, relax and eat freshly prepared food. That was great. Anything else would have put me over the edge long before.
We would always take a thermos of coffee into the stadium each morning too. One time an attendant told my husband, as he was sipping coffee, that he couldn't do that, and he just glared at him, as only he can do, and the attendant never said anything again. Right above our seats was the "Press Box" with all the elite CO's, DO's, and Bethel biggies, and they were all sitting at their table seats overlooking the auditorium, drinking coffee. That was Dave's next motion, to point up at them.
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Room 215
Coolers have to be small enough to fit under your seat because the larger ones take up too much space and seating for others? C'mon! I wonder how many of these sweltering guiltfests are drawing capacity crowds in any venue over 15,00 seats.
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Swan
Mulan wrote:
We had our RV parked on site, for the last 10 years we went to conventions, so it was no biggie for us. We literally ran to our RV at session's end, or before, to put our feet up, relax and eat freshly prepared food.
That's great! Of course the next rule will be not to go to your vehicle during intermission. This is because they will see a great number of people who get to their hot cars, say it's too hot to eat in here, start it up, get the AC going, and then decide since they've went that far why not just drive home and be really comfortable!
My last few years in was spent realizing how much I hated those DCs and how much their rules had made it unbearable for me to go. My last DC I just refused to go on the Friday. It was a half-day session with service in the morning or something. So I just told my Mom I had to work. I really just didn't want to waste my precious vacation days for that kind of masochistic behavior any more.
Tammy
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cruzanheart
That was Dave's next motion, to point up at them.
And which finger did he use, Mulan?
Nina
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Swan
BlueSapphire wrote:
So one day I got invited with the "spiritually weak" group to go out to Sizzler during lunch. I was aghast when lunch dragged for two-three hours and two-three beers later. I finally said, "Hey we're missing the assembly." One guy said, "Oh I'm sure someone will have it on tape!"
Obviously it was due to weak ones like you why they made the rule you couldn't leave the convention for lunch.
Tammy
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joelbear
i brought a fan to blow on a peanut butter sandwich once.
food cooler, get it?
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Pork Chop
As several have pointed out, which most people seem to ignore, you can have coolers they just can't be big ones. You also can have colored drinks, don't know where that came from. As far as the catering goes, certain families are given the 'privilege' of providing sack lunches or whatever for the out of town elite, don't know whether that's necessarily such a good deal. I do envy them their coffe pot in the admin section.
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unique1
Swan: They stopped preparing food because it was causing too many brothers to miss out on the spiritual food provided. My dad was one of them. We would have to go to the morning part of the next week's District Assembly because Dad would miss the first half each day being in charge of food.