It's funny, I was actually told to not take my two door car to the service meeting. That seemed kind of stupid since my other vehicle was a truck. I drove the 2 door out in service once. All I heard was constant complaining because the person in back didn't have a window. Oh well, at least I don't have to worry about that anymore.
Did you ever see an elder with a 2 door car?
by JH 63 Replies latest jw friends
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unbeliever
Sore subject with me. My first car would have been a 2 door but an elder objected and said it would be better for FS if I had a 4 door car. Mom got me this HUGE Lincoln Town Car that was a gas guzzler. I was so upset. For the same price she could have gotten me a smaller 2 door car with much better gas mileage. I cried for a week. This is what the car looked like except mine was tan and had a bunch of dents. Oh and the hub caps were missing. -
jeanniebeanz
My ex-husband and I bought a used '86 Ford Thunderbird Elan in '88. The very first time we drove it into the Willits, CA KH parking lot, one of the elders saw fit to comment to me that such a car was, "Making a showy display of our means of life." and "A cause of stumbling for our brothers. How are you going to get car-groups into it?"
Same moron later bought his wife a bright red Pontiac Grand Prix that she raced all around town. Not long after they got the car, she took one of the other sisters three daughters for a drive, decided to allow the 15 year old to drive it, and the teenager promptly plowed the car into a redwood tree doing about 55 miles per hour. Broke the littlest sisters back, smashed the teenagers face, and almost cut the legs off of the elders wife when the engine block came into the passenger compartment and into her lap. She was on life support for a long time and had years worth of therapy to re-learn how tobreathe and live.
The littlest girl who's back was broken in the crash almost died. She was airlifted to Oakland Childrens Hospital where she was sewn back together and spent another two years learning how to walk enduring great pain and trauma.
My point in this entire story is that I was counseled about my car being too fancy and only having two doors by a man who bought his 'not too bright' woman a hot-rod, and then allowed her to cart other peoples kids around when she clearly did not have the sense to do so.
These people worry about all the wrong things, and do not hold themselves to the same standards that they want others to live by. I may have had a nice two-door car, but I would never have let an unlicensed, never been behind the wheel before, teenager drive it.
Jean
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ButterflyCharmer
I knew this VERY arogant(sp?) PO that always counceled people on 'showy display's', but
was such a big hypocrit. Just before we left that congregation, he had bought a brand new
red 2 door sports car convertable, not much later than that, him and his wife bought a HUGE house
in the hills. It was just the 2 of them, no children. You think it would have caused a scandal of
some sorts, but nobody said anything about it, i guess his status in the congregtion has something to
do with that.BC