by Ivor Hope 33 Replies latest jw friends
When I pioneered I use to place a magazine in my apartment building under someone's door then count the time walking to the subway where I stood for about an 1 and a half holding my plastic magazine holder. Then I would place a magazine under another door in some apartment building and count the time walking to the field service meeting house. After an hour of field service and volia! three hours for the day and the rest was mine!
What a waste!
We had some that would go to yard sales. They would take their time looking around, buy stuff and then leave a magazine and they would count their time.
Dimples
My scam was to never leave the house and still put down 4 mags, 5 hours, 1 RV.... It was a great way to keep the elders off my ass...
One of my mom's girlfriends who pioneered started her time when she woke up, by reading daily text with her daughter. Then she ate breakfast, showered, did her hair and make up AND THEN drove for 25 minutes to the Kingdom Hall for the service meeting, effectively having two and a half hours before even setting foot in the hall. Then, at the end of the day's sales, she would return home, read the text with her son after getting dinner together, effectively tacking on at least another 90 minutes. She bragged to my mom about this once, mistakenly in my presence. My mom, not a pioneer was actually envious that she only had a five minute drive to the hall. My mom tried to use me to start her Saturday morning time at 6 AM with me, once. I think I was about 12. I told her I would not cooperate with her cheating. When I said that, it clicked with my mom exactly what her girlfriend was doing. My mother wasn't so impressed, or jealous, of her pioneer girlfriend anymore. Shoshana
IvorHope and Running Man gave many of the reasons why a person would hate service, especially when you know this is YOUR valuable time you are wasting which could be better served at home maybe catching up on some chores, reading USEFUL, EDUCATIONAL things, gardening, or doing something beneficial and healthful for your body--like exercise!
one of my favourite ways to count service time ( as I lived in the big city) would go outside and stand like what Running man called " Indian" witnessing. (love that term). I lived in the Kingdom Hall so I counted my time during text. Then went to territory some times right around hall. That was my personal territory. You go out from 9:30 - 10:30-45, have your 15 min. coffee break, which was more like an hour. Back to territory go out one more hour. Go back to Kingdom Hall do a house or two and call it the day. So from 7am -12PM I had, 5hours. But one was cheating in resturant, for an hour... 20 min. at service arrangement. And I always rounded off my time. What a bad Pioneer I was... Then over the yrs the Society said no more Statue or Indian standing you have to walk down the street and approach people... Yuck.
When I really look back and exam my heart I really did hate going out in the service....
Here is a good one. I use to go out in the service with this sister who was wild about counting her hours. What a cheat... and at the same time this sister asked me to go with her on her bible studies with her and she would fall asleep on the person leaving me to conduct the study and she would say so we got this many hours in the service, but she had fallen asleep for an hour... that use to crack me up.
My ex husband use to lie when he would put in my time as I was ill so he would make up what ever number suited him and he said I did this many hours.... what an jerk.
Oh the joys of once upon a time being a Jehovah's Witnesses....
Love Orangefatcat..
For a while I did actually enjoy field service, probably because I didn't beat myself over the head for not getting a certain number of hours in.
I did however, cheat a little by starting my time at the very moment I arrived for the service meeting.
You know, with regards to driving 45 minutes to reach the territory, I used to notice that even many elders in my congregation would do this. . .
geez thank goodness i dont have to do it anymore, I used to go out once a week with the group i hated it it was sooo boring, i used to put in so many hours a month always under 10 wether i did them or not..count time for studying with my kids when i hardly ever did it.
i was to damn busy...being a jw took up so much time and what with being a single parent of 3 kids for 14 years and with no help or encouragement from them...geez when i look back...no one used to ask me to work with them cuz i was a nobody. well according to them not related to anyone important like elders or anything or generations of witnesses that anyone knew..but man did they used to gush over the CO when he and his idiotic wife came.
never have i seen so many bugs come outa the woodwork when the co was here.
and scramble to work with him hell no....rather eat soap.
but i pioneered a few times and was the first to get 100 hours in my cong.
but im glad i dont have to do it anymore....in the end you do it cuz its required of you and if you dont you are looked down on ohhh sister such and such isnt on service etc etc etc. ughhhhh
thank goodness thats over.
I was too fricking honest to come up with a scam for counting time. I would only count the time I spent actually speaking to someone at the door and then bible studies, usually conducted by my mother with the householder and then I would retreat to another room with the small child and bore him/her to death with My Book of Bible Stories (yuck yuck triple yuck )
had I known I could scam my way......oh well
Some persons have attempted to put a Watchtower in the back window of their car, and count time whenever they drive, but that's just silly.
I have seen this done. I never knew that was the intention. I remember seeing that on the 2 hour drive to the assembly halls. No wonder!!
Some persons have attempted to put a Watchtower in the back window of their car, and count time whenever they drive, but that's just silly.
I hope these people didn't have kids, geez, how embarassing
