Have you ever been dobbed in, and for what?????????? (page 2)

Mysterious

When I was younger we rented a video game that had "spells" and things like walking skeletons in it. (it was an rpg). The friend's mother started reading the manual and then she got mad and told us it was demonic. She took it away and called my mom. Who then made me get rid of it. I was never allowed to play any games in that series after because it had a bad reputation.

Frannie Banannie

My worst and most uncomfortable experiences of this nature were when "interested" brothers would come around to "check me out" and even though I wasn't "interested" in them, they'd judge me as less than perfect because they'd catch me reading a "worldly" novel (I love to read) or not having had time to underline for the WT or book study, because they'd always look over my shoulder to check. (grrrr) And then they'd "spread the word". Hell, I was a single parent, working full time and raising a family by myself. What did they expect?!!!!

Frannie B

keeshah

I ratted on someone because I found out she was pregnant, but it was just a matter of days before someone else found out. I found out at the same time an elder's daughter found out. We worked together. She was on the phone to her daddy in two seconds flat! He should have gotten a ticket by the way he spead thru the parking lot to get the whole story from his daughter! He left the same way he came in. He just couldn't wait to get that poor girl disfellowshipped. I visit her every summer and tell her how sorry I am that we did that.

Then, I ratted on that girl's brother for trying to touch part's of my body that he shouldn't. He was trying it with the same elder's daughter too! I got a little ticked when I found out that he was trying to fool around with her too, so I narked on him. They called him into the little room and had a talk with him. Then they stupidly said, "Oh, but you aren't baptised, are you?" He said, "That's right." and walked out. The next time he came to a meeting, it was the Memorial and he showed up drunk. When he told me about it (years later) I felt horrible.

Most of the time I was the one in the hot seat. I remember when an elder found out that I went to the prom. Of course, he didn't know that I was only there for 5 minutes and then went parking on a dirt road with my boyfriend! At that point, I would think the prom would have been the better place to be.

smack

John McLaughlin has to be the best guitarist ever. And some of his best work was with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I like a more recent album he did with Paco DeLucia and Al DiMeola called Friday Night in San Francisco. I saw them in Sydney about ** years ago. Ain't I lucky.

Oh, and I never dobbed.

Steve

Tasmanian Overbeer (and liker of weird music)

CountryGuy

I would say that "dobbing" or "getting dobbed in" could have been like a congregation pasttime where I grew up. If something went on that one JW didn't like, the elders were IMMEDIATELY informed. And, I was ALWAYS being talked to by the elders.

During my senior year of high school, I took a class on world cultures. I was doing a report on Ireland for this class and checked out a book from the library to help with my report. The cover of the book had a leprechaun and a clover on it. One of the elder's kids saw the book in my car. I got called into the back room after the next meeting so they could discuss demonistic images and good luck charms and why we should stay away from them. When they finally mentioned that I was seen with the book, I couldn't believe it. I explained to them why I had the book and offered to bring it to the next meeting so they could see it was a book about Ireland. They didn't want me bringing "that" book into the hall, so one of them came to my house to look at it.

While at my house, the elder asked me why I would even take this kind of class. It was actually what I considered to be an "easy A." But, I told him that I thought it would help prepare me for when I become a missionary.

Momofmany

I had to talk to the elders twice as a teenager. Once a group of 4 boys had me cornered in the hall. I was by the back steps trying to get my coat. Since my mom and I were only studing, I guess they thought I was "out to get one of them" But there was 4 of them and one of me. Anyway, they had a meeting with my mom and me about they way I carried myself. The second time, two girls said they saw me smoking at the local strip mall. I was at school at the time. The elders got my mom to get the attendance sheet on me for that day. I did feel like "In your face" because I was at school. I wasn't smoking at the strip mall.

BluesBrother

Sounds like the "Good old days" to me.. I am sure I gave my share of unwarranted counsel and tactless comments over the years

It would not be right to post up a story of my still active wife. Suffice it to say that it involved a self help psychology book that someone objected to. It was only my elder status that saved us

Cruith .. I doubt if anyone at my old hall would have had the education to know about the works you mention , so as to object to them. I had enough trouble keeping my Led Zep records a secret

Satans little helper

I got dobbed in a couple of times for smoking (I was) and continually got lectures and hassle for my like of heavy metal music. I once even got dobbed in for being seen snogging at a bus stop on my way to school one morning.

The incident that really got under my skin was one summer when I was staying at an elder's house and got dragged in to a room by him and another elder and grilled about someone else in the congregation. Turns out she was engaging in a bit of what she fancied with her fiance a couple of months before their marraige and I got hassle for not ratting them out, despite not being close friends of theirs and not knowing anyway.

seattleniceguy

Mysterious' comment made me think of this. I bought some video game from a kid at school one time. I remember, I almost never played it because it wasn't very fun. But my visiting uncle and his "annointed" wife came over one day and found it, I have no idea how. The artwork on the cover showed a dragon or maybe some pixie dust or something clearly demonic, so they hauled me upstairs for a lecture. Keep in mind, they never even put the game in to see what it was all about. They declared that I had to get rid of it, so in a plea bargain, I said I would trade it for a different game with a kid at school the next day.

What game did I get instead? Mike Tyson's Punchout. They had no problem with that one.

SNG

yxl1

There was a massive witchhunt just before I got married. The local Elders had heard that my future wife and I were "doing the do" before our wedding day. Apparently while they were interviewing a DF person for re-instatement, he said that he'd seen us kissing at a bus stop. The phone calls to anyone that knew us started and gossip went around the KH like fire. When that failed to get the results they were looking for, they phoned my sister who had just left home because of the Dubs. My sister told them what she thought of them while using as many F-words and C-words as possible. She also warned them that if they messed around with her kid brothers wedding, she'd be sending her boyfriend around to have a personal "chat" with this Elder. When the Elder hung up, she dialed 1471, and called him back to continue her rant! Needless to say, our wedding day went ahead as planned!

Thanks sis

Have you ever been dobbed in, and for what??????????

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