Chronicles - Streaking at the Convention

by misspeaches 14 Replies latest jw experiences

  • misspeaches
    misspeaches

    We had a family with a single mother in the congregation bringing up 4 active and naughty boys. (One of the boys was my best friend...)

    Single mum suffered from some emotional issues and it was well known in the congregation. She was one of the ladies who partook of the emblems each memorial, would reguarly be needing a meeting with the elders about some greivance or other and coming out with all sorts of strange ideas and statements.

    None the less mum decided to befriend her as she does with all the resident weirdos. We all went off to the 4 day convention together in the Tarago ready for a spritual feast. (blah!)

    Thursday went by fairly non eventful. Friday passed - nothing happened. Then Saturday arrived. Half way through the morning session single mum leaps up from her chair hurling abuse, rips off ALL OF HER CLOTHES and goes streaking through the stadium. Mum hauled arse after her with a coat and us kids sat there looking bewildered. Her son's combined this with a lovely shade of red. Eventually the brothers caught up with her and covered her up. She was put into hospital and mum took all the boys home with us and we left her in this hospital in a big city all by herself. Mum promised her that it would be short term and that she would get it sorted out quickly.

    Tuesday arrives and single mum turns up on the doorstep. She had escaped from they Pysch ward. It turns out that Jehovah had come to her while she was in the hospital with an escape plan and it worked. She would walk up to the elevator situated in front of the nurses station each day and press the lift button. While the nurses watched she would stand there waiting for the lift and when it arrived wander off back to her room. She did the repeatedly for a couple of days. Then when she knew the nurses were tired of watching her little game she stepped into the lift and left the hospital caught a bus and came to pick up her boys.

    So maybe Jehovah does communicate directly with the annointed ones after all?

  • alw
    alw

    Wow!! What a story - bit embarrassing to live through, eh!!! Poor woman - good read though. Thanks alw

  • enderby
    enderby

    she put the ass back in assembly.

  • doofdaddy
    doofdaddy

    Was anybody awake to notice??

    No chance if it was after lunch

  • Gretchen956
    Gretchen956

    I was at an assembly where there was a streaker back in the 70s when it was popular to "streak" crowds of people. It was in Portland Oregon on Sunday during the main talk. (if my poor memory serves me), anyway, the faces of the other attendees was priceless. I was laughing my ass off until I suddenly realized I was the only one laughing AND I was getting some very stern looks from the gestapo!

    Sherry

  • lawrence
    lawrence

    misspeaches- what ever happened to the lady?

    Sherry - great!

  • Goldminer
    Goldminer

    Funny story now,but I bet it was hell at the time.Did those boys eventually walk away from the Borg?

    Goldminer

  • Jankyn
    Jankyn

    Sherry, you were NOT the only one laughing! Nor were you the only one getting stern looks -- my mother actually swatted one of my brothers for laughing so hard, but then, she was trying not to laugh herself.

    Wow. That was a blast from the past!

    Jankyn (grew up in Oregon congregations)

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost
    Was anybody awake to notice??

    ROFLAO!!!!!

  • tall penguin
    tall penguin

    There was a brother in my hall who streaked at a district convention during the drama when all eyes were on the stage. My Dad was doing security at the time and had to chase him. It was funny to watch. But I felt bad for the guy. He had schizophrenia I think. Anyways, he caused some other disturbances at our meetings and was later "marked" although from what I heard a few of the elders really just wanted to disfellowship him.
    tp

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