I had a small Texaco station, for about a year, full service, free air for everyone. Problem was, most people went across the street to the self service station, to save 2 cents. Now let it rain, and i had more customers wanting to buy 1 gallon of gas, so they didn't have to get wet! I got to asking them to go where they normally went!
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Do you pay for air for your tires at your gas station?
by jam inthis was on the news this morning.
when you buy gas air is part .
of the service, it should be free.
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poll, why would you hide it your buisness/job
by sowhatnow inhow many people on here who were or are jws, owned or ran a buisness who would not willingly let people at the k hall know, maybe to avoid feeling like you had to give your fellow brothers and sisters a discount, or free help, or out of fear of being judged.
did you only help out the pioneers?
and not the poor ones?
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DwainBowman
I do repair work, in a small shop. I give the so called friends a price break, if i know they can't afford to pay full price. I have the lowest prices around already. I also have the lowest overhead. There are a few very elderly sister that don't have enough to get by on to start with, i will do the work for free, but then I have done that for many sweet little old ladies. I just love the look on there faces, when I say, oh just bring me some homemade cookies or bread, next time your near!
Not long ago, this cranky, very hard to like sister with pleanty of money brought her item in for me to repair, I said i have it done in a bit (meaning a day or two) she says, "Oh I can wait!" and just set down! So I took it into my work room, spent an hour and a half, fixing it! I took it back up front and set it down, and was telling her what all i had done, she says, "Good" picks it up and heads for the door! I said, "That will be $75", The look on her face was priceless! She said "But I'm, a sister" i told her, "I have to make a living" You would have thought I pulled a gun on her! She pulled out her wallet, that had a stack of $100 bills! She went home and called an elder!
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" Do not ask permission, just play the video--" service meeting instructions.
by prologos inthis statement startled me out of the pleasant mental absence during this week's "service" meeting.. pushing the org.
explanation: "the listener has time to interrupt, if they want--" .
together with an incredible boring "study" of an hand held device, or it's stored content, i will be a totally new crop of orgies at the halls,.
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DwainBowman
They used to do that with the phnographs, knock on the door, and start playing it, with almost no intro from them!!
Dwain
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DwainBowman
Just post the web address of the picture.
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Reinstatement via Old Cong.
by startingover13 ini've applied to be reinstatement in a new city after attending meetings for a bit.
i wrote my letter and they heard my case.
they were very helpful.
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DwainBowman
A brother I used to know was df'ed for something back in the 50's, that in the 60's changed, but the df'ing congregation would not reinstate him. In the 70's, he packed and went to Brooklyn, and came back, with a letter, saying to treat him as if he had never been df'ed in the first place. That the original issue had been a oversight on the wt's part dealing with reasons to be df'ed back in the 50's.
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One Day Assembly Costs How Much, WTF?
by NoMoreHustle inthe recent circuit assembly day cost get this... $17,0000 in an assembly hall that they own!
this was announced during the assmbly at the 3/4 mark of days activities.
after he said how much the assembly cost, he then proceeded to say that we have recieved $6,000 in donations up to this point of the day.
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DwainBowman
Years ago the monthly accounts report went into detail, not just a 30 second recap. And the simi annual audit was too. The came an km with a question box (it may have just been a letter) saying that we all could trust the appointed brothers to take care of things, without being questioned, and from then on, it was only to be a quick summary of the report. Seems it also talked about how much time wss wasted thst could be better used!
Dwain
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best blonde joke ever
by JeffT inmy wife (a blonde) told this one to our son and i yesterday, knowing we'd find it really funny.. .
a blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.
the blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's license.
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DwainBowman
Blonde is not a hair color! It's a mental condition!
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stupid elder
by goingthruthemotions inas you all know i am just going thru the motions.
well today during the brain washing session.
one stupid elder made the comment of.....an i quote "the jw.org website is the most visited website in the world!
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DwainBowman
My poor mom in law, (a very wonder person) was saying today how she had always wondered hiw the work was going to be done in China, and other countries like it. Then she said thst jw.borg was taking care if all of that. She got pretty upset, when I pointed out, that less than 1 in 4 have access to the Internet, (last info I heard on that) and thst India was pretty clise to thst as well!
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Strange letter to local congregations
by Syme inthis summer i saw on the bulletin board of a specific kh a strange letter, the info of which i'd like to share with you.. it came not from the gb or the branch office, but from the local evangelizers school.
what it said was roughly this:.
because they want to enrich the school's library, they ask from the brothers in the region (i.e.
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DwainBowman
They sent letters not to long ago, with instructions to clean out older publication. Along with it was an approved publications list, of what should be on hand!
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Watchtower In The Window
by watson inevery time i see this new "logo", jw.org, i'm taken back to the days in the late 60's and early 70's when we used to put a watchtower in the rear window of our cars when on the way to our vacation..er, i mean, the district convention (that's what they called it back then).
then, some years later we were "admonished" to not put the watchtower in the rear window of our cars while on the way to the dc.. how long before they council the "friends" to not bring "undo" attention to the organization?.
boring subject?
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DwainBowman
I so remember those days. Sometimes we would have a small convoy of jw's traveling together. And if one pulled off, the others would follow, just in case there was a problem of some kind. I remember once getting to ride with another family, because they had 2 boys my age, and there sister rode in my car with my family and sister!
Lots of fun memories from way back!
Dwain