by Frannie Banannie 17 Replies latest jw friends
not my experience, but a couple years back at a D.C. there was a couple there who had a 3 day old (4 days when we met her) baby with her. And they weren't local, so they travelled with, and were staying in a HOTEL with a 3 day old baby. can we all say "idiots!?"
Odrade
In the 9-10k foot elevation of CO, we were much more laid back than you lowland folk book pushers. My typical service attire consisted of: wearing shorts under my black ski pants/bib, large snow boots, gloves, some sort of warm heavy head gear, and a dress shirt and tie just poking out of the V at the top of my parka. The nice shirt and tie was to give the householders the impression that I was decked out in dress clothes underneath and that I was serious as a heart attack just being there at their door in sometimes frigid and deep snow weather.
Not a real martyr-like effort, I know. But even our elders thought that warmth and comfort should come before freezing our asses off.
Oh, and most of the sisters dressed up the same. None wore dresses in the winter that I can remember. If they did, the temps were probably over 30 and sunny. Hell, 40 and sunny up there was short and t-shirt weather for most of the county.
I will have to work to get out of the negative brownie points for the rest of my life.
Ravyn, you're no worse than the rest of us who robot-ed thru the borglife...and most didn't have NEAR the obstacles to overcome that you did, chica...and didn't do nearly as well as a good lil witless either.....you get "A" for effort....and "A-PLUS" for waking up, g/friend....
The wind was SO cold that my nose was dripping and I had a lovely snot-sicle forming on the end of my nose. We'd finally got someone to answer the door (they must have wondered if their house was burning down because nobody in their right mind would be outdoors in this weather... oh yeah... keyword: in their right mind) and the CO's wife made her presentation.
Scully, that's....gruesome....Just shows how clueless they really are....
All of a sudden, I felt dizzy and started to black out. I managed to lean on one of the columns long enough for the CO's wife to finish up... and then everything went black. I came to in the car, with the heat blasting on my legs and feet. When we got home (after coffee break and Return Visits™) I got in trouble for ruining our morning in service. Like, how dare I pass out from being outside in the INSANE cold, didn't I know what a bad witness I gave doing that?? I guess it must have been that I "deliberately" passed out, so I'd get attention from my dad and the CO and his wife that should have been going to Almighty God, Jehovah. How dare I, indeed!
OUTRAGEOUS 
Scully!!! What a totally anal retentive knee-jerk reaction from your Dad!!!
Frannie B
a couple years back at a D.C. there was a couple there who had a 3 day old (4 days when we met her) baby with her. And they weren't local, so they travelled with, and were staying in a HOTEL with a 3 day old baby. can we all say "idiots!?"
I can, Odrade!!! IDIOTS!! 
even our elders thought that warmth and comfort should come before freezing our asses off. and most of the sisters dressed up the same. None wore dresses in the winter that I can remember. If they did, the temps were probably over 30 and sunny.
Jourles, your congregation was one of the ones that the rest of us envied deeply as we froze our tushies off in inclemently freezin'-nasty weather...
Frannie B
Conducting a bible study with a guy in Toronto in a really dumpy apartment building. While studying with this guy what do I see a RAT walking on the floor along the side of the wall. What else do I see many COCKROACHES one of which was on the chair I was sitting on.
Oh yeah I almost forgot. It also wreaked like urine in this guy's apartment!! But then again anything for a potential "sheep".
i spent three summers in nebraska working unassigned territory.....we drove all the way from california....uuuuugh
Conducting a bible study with a guy in Toronto in a really dumpy apartment building. While studying with this guy what do I see a RAT walking on the floor along the side of the wall. What else do I see many COCKROACHES one of which was on the chair I was sitting on. Oh yeah I almost forgot. It also wreaked like urine in this guy's apartment!! But then again anything for a potential "sheep".
EWWWWWW, Michael!! You are a true mensch, dude!
i spent three summers in nebraska working unassigned territory.....we drove all the way from california....uuuuugh
TINKS!!! And you did this for THREE summers in a row?????
Frannie B
