Passing the time at JW Assemblies

by Leolaia 66 Replies latest jw friends

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  Leolaia

  Love_Truth, in describing the utter dullness of JW assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread. What were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass? Some of mine:

  • Looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.
  • Looking for people I knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.
  • Counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroom
  • Practice writing people's names in Elvish script
  • Having a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forth
  • Seeing how many pages of my Bible stick together when I slam a wad of gum in between its pages.

  What else? Tell your stories of utter boredom!
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  Panda

  I went to the bathroom as often as possible.

  Once I volunteered for some thing but that wasn't fun either.

  I had a friend in a wheel chair and that helped when we went together.

  I looked for people I knew.

  I tried, really tried not to fall asleep (snoring you know).

  I took notes to stay awake for a few years.

  Finally I started staying one(circuit) or 2 days(district) in the hotel room.
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  yxl1

  Wander around and check out sisters. Failing that, I'd daydream. After many years attending assemblies I learnt how to daydream for hours on end. The hours would just wash by and I wouldnt have absorbed a thing. Occationally I would be dragged out of my self hypnotic state when the seals clapped or laughed, but at that point I'd usually go for a wander, a spliff or a coffee.
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  Sirona

  I slept.

  Seriously, we'd find seats at the back and sleep at conventions.

  Sirona
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  Dansk

  I deliberately volunteered (and got my children to volunteer) to become Watchmen or attendants. That way we got to get out of our straight-jacket seats and be able to walk around and talk. Some P.O. from another congregation ruined things when he complained that sisters shouldn't be used as attendants at Circuit Assemblies as "it isn't right for brothers to be told by sisters what to do!"

  So why were sisters used at District Conventions, then? And were sisters used at OTHER Circuit Assemblies? What a load of hypocrisy - AGAIN!!

  Ian
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  got my forty homey?

  At the summer conventions we had in New York at Belmont Racetrack I would count the trains that passed by the racetrack wishing I was driving the trains. As I got older and baptized I would volunteer for anything as long as it got me up and around not sitting for hourzs. I started in the cleaning deptartment, then attendant duties. I could not sit endless hours with getting restless. What torture for young people.
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  shamus

  We would whisper and be bad. The last two years that I was in da troof we used to walk to the store and buy a coffee whilst the "governing body" or some dumbass from "bethel" would make the rest of them feel like shit.
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  xjw_b12

  I learned to put a blankie on the floor and curl up under a couple of seats, and sleep the day away, but my mom put a stop to that when I turned 16.
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  GreenDragon

  I look at pretty girls but then their grandparents told me off all the time
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  nobody told me

  I counted ceiling tiles at the circuit assembly. When we use to park cars, we would wander the parking lot, looking for "intruders", during the sessions. I could alway get young brothers to volunteer for this previledge.