It was at the tender age of 14 that I first got exposed to some sign wavers. A group of JWs were leaving the district convention in a large bus when we first sighted them. For some reason the bus driver decides to pull over and engage them in a conversation. As he was doing that I saw them waving what seemed to be watchtowers. So I opened my window and let out my arm to grab one and I had at least three of them jossle into position desperate to hand me one of those mags. As soon as I sat down I noticed that the magazine was a badly mimeographed magazine called Not the Watchtower.
By now the bus driver is leaving the scene and everyone in the bus is yelling at me for having accepted that piece of literature. I remember glancing at it very briefly and seeing a lot of quotes about dates. It was set up with the most garrish typesetting and did not look worth reading regardless of the information.
A couple years later I purchased 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. I was so afraid of the book that I stripped it of its front and back covers and hid it. That wasn't so much to keep me out of trouble as I lived with my mother who was not a JW but I had this superstitious feeling that if I defaced the book it would keep any evil power it had from harming me.
