JW strangers say mean things to you at assemblies? (page 2)

maybesbabies

(((((jwbot))))) I know how you feel! The sisters at our congregation would pick on me and my (real) sisters all the time, because we couldn't afford nice clothes. There was one sister we used to go out in service with all the time, and one time my dress had a few wrinkles in it, so she made me strip and iron it at her house in front of a bunch of other sisters. I was mortified, to say the least, because my underclothes were just as shabby, and I didn't have a training bra to wear. She then berated me all througout service about how my appearance was humiliating to the rest of the congregation. Those women were terrible! BTW, she was a 40 year old virgin, if that tells you anything!!!!

SanFranciscoJim

A man (brother?) who was nicely dressed just like a dub, clean cut, wearing a badge (looked like he could be an elder) said just as loudly, "Well, it wouldn't be so bad if all these f*****g people would get out of the way!"

Surreptitious -

This didn't happen in Atlanta by any chance, did it? If so, I personally knew the elder (yes, elder). He swore like a sailor, even while out in field service and even from the podium in the Kingdom Hall. He was also the most kind, caring JW man I ever knew.

razorMind

My youngest sister (22, still a Dub) regales me with the incredibly stupid comments/unsolicited advice from the congregants at her Hall.....

...it's quite unbelievable, the things that these people feel they have the right to say to her and her husband. These selfsame people would not have DARED say such stupid things to me or my other sis, back when we were Dubs.

Personally I think they can sense the general depressed and down-trodden air she has about her, and act accordingly. It's sad; she acts like that's how things are supposed to be. She doesn't seem to have ANY sense of outrage or to realize that that was a pretty fucked-up thing to say to a "fellow Christian sister".

If a brother/sister had said to US half the things that they say to my youngest sis, they would've been subjected to a severe cursing-out, or a serious ass-whuuping.

blaid

ironicly, that happened to me just today.

first of all, you need to know im bi-polar type 2 for this story to make any sense. Okay, I started out having a bad day, cold water ect, and I wasnt feeling like talking to anyone becuase hey, it was just one of the 'down' sorta days.

a sister comes up to where i was sdtanding outside all alone (becasue i didnt wanna talk to anyone, and says

"You should really go and and talk to people instead of standing out here like a lonor with some sort of disease!"

I wanted to just fucking kick her skull in, i swear. it made me so mad.

btw, her name was Debra Patton, feel free to call and annoy, lol

Badger

I was the giver of such an occurrence once to an attendant

Keep in mind...I've been an attendant, and was trained by my dad. Our ethos?

Answer a quest asked by a brother or sister.
Be polite and friendly
Offer to help
If there's something bad happening, see what can be done, but...
There's never anything bad enough that needs our intervention.

We stuck by that code. I went to a convention (not as an attendant) and saw a pack of youths during lunch having fun in a section of the convention center. Nothing remotely untoward, just some 15-18-year-old-level fun: giggling, laughing, clean-enough jokes, light teasing, etc. I was encouraged: Not often do you see young ones enjoying themselves here.

An attendant (not much older than these...probably on his way to MTS) dropped the hammer:

"You kids settle down, and go sit with your families!"

I snapped...but in a cool way.

" Excuse me, brother ," I said softly, as the youths were stunned by his inflection, " Could I talk to you for a second ?"

I then led him into the concourse and dressed him down in a stairwell, in a much less calm voice.

I told him that these were decent kids, who could be involved in a lot worse things than having a good time during lunch together (I let him know what some of those worse things could be). I added that his attitude was not improving their view of the organizational arrangement.

"Now, brother," I concluded, "Are you going to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and think that you may have run off some young ones for good? People like you are the reason some of those kids leave!"

I saw him later in the concourse with that stupid "Quiet Please" sign. He avoided eye contact.

joannadandy

Wow!!

Go Badger!!

You should go do undercover work at the conventions. Vive La Resistance! LOL

Piph

These aren't from assemblies, but...

A friend of mine used to drag 6 little kids to the meetings by herself. And this one lady would approach her almost every time and say, "I noticed that you were late again." My friend said that she wished she could have said in reply, "And I see that you're still fat."

One day her kids were outside jumping on the trampoline and her JW neighbors from across the street came over to let her know that her children were involved in "sexual dancing" and needed to be disciplined. She never figured that one out.

There was also this really sweet older lady in my congregation who always wore mismatched scarves, coats, skirts, and shirts with tennis shoes. LOL I loved it. But one of the elder's wives approached her and told her that her mismatched clothing was unbecoming for a Christian especially in the ministry. The poor old lady was so embarrassed and tried to change her clothing style...I just felt so sorry for her.

gumby

Don't let those bitches worry you Jwbot - they were probably jealous

LMAO!

Another fine post by Prisca that hit the nail on the head!

Gumby

Nosferatu

Not necessarily at assemblies, but whenever. Here's a sneakpeak at my autobiography (I edited the swearing):

Apr 2, 1996

Came back from the ******* Memorial. Marek, the ******* waved to me. I was actually in kind of a ****** mood. I didn't wave back. Louis Bartosek said some **** that I couldn't understand. He insulted me by telling me I should work out more. That's my ******* decision. When it was over and me and dad were in the car, he gave me the rap about being more happy at the Kingdom Hall. How the **** can I be happy if noone says hi to me and then all of a sudden, for a showoff a couple of people say hi to me.

nilfun

"I wore a new, pressed dress (ankle-length, brown polyester) and
flat shoes to field service one day, and she laughed and told me I
looked like a school marm."

Fortunately, in the Org of today, the "school marm" look is on its way out.
Here's a picture of a JW couple at a recent circuit assembly that
evidences this "new light":

-nilfun, who agrees that jealousy played no small role in the way you were
criticized by those sisters. ((JWbot, et al.))

JW strangers say mean things to you at assemblies?

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