You're not supposed to clap now when someone gets reinstated. Apparently, that's cause they have to "prove" themselves.
Another lovely Dub fad was Witnesses selling their homes so they had $100,000 + to tide them over until Armageddon started. And this is post 1975 people......I know of one couple in my Hall who decided to "simplify their lifestyle" by selling their home. I think they had about $90,000 equity in it, and they figured that that would be plenty for them to live on until Armageddon came "soon". Let me see, that was in the late 1980s I believe. They're not going to have a pot to piss in, or a window to fire it out of when they retire because the wife never worked outside the home and the husband never bothered to pay into a pension (surprise, surprise). When they did this, there were 3 or 4 other families in the Hall who also did this. They claimed it was so they could spend more time "in God's Service", but in reality, they wanted to get their hands on some easy cash and just blow it, figuring that with the Big A coming, they'd never have to repay anything.
There were also "pioneer parties" and "elder parties" galore. If you were pioneering one month, all those sisters got together for a luncheon at one of their homes. One time, an elder's wife had been excluded because she hadn't pioneered that month. She raised holy hell over not being invited to the lunch, got the elders involved, blah, blah, blah.........it was pathetic!!