Ever embarrassed by a JW?

Fatfreek

When I was a JW and married to one, my wife's grandparents invited us over for a Sunday dinner, a very nice one indeed. Wife's brother, his buddy, and wife's parents were all JW's. The grandparents, however, were Catholic.
We were all at the table while the serving bowls were making their circles -- the chicken, the mashed potatoes, the rolls -- when the buddy, thinking that he was being witty, asked (referring to the part of the chicken that goes over the fence last), "Can someone please pass me the Pope's nose?"
As he grinned, expecting a bunch of laughs and chuckles, I looked around and everyone else was staring silently down at their plates, very somber. I looked at our hosts, and they looked astonished, but never said a word. Fortunately, someone broke the chill with a change in subject.
This happened many years ago but I remember to this day my embarrassment, how sorry I felt for this elderly couple who were doing their best to be good hosts, freely offering their food and hospitality, and only to have one of their guests ambush them with such cruel words. If there had ever been any inclination on their part to show interest in Watchtower teachings, it probably ended then and there.
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Lilycurly

Well! Maybe not as embarassing as what you just told.lol

But I remember being really really embarassed as a teenager, everytime we went and eat out after an assembly, and we had to keep our stupid assembly dresses on, complete with the cards, just to be sure everyone around knew we were weird. And then my dad would insist on praying together, all gathered around and he said his whispered prayer with people around staring and wondering what kind of freaks we were.

blondie

I remember seeing some people praying at a restaurant and wondering if they were JWs (when I was still attending). False alarm, couldn't be JWs. (see the beard)

darth frosty

mom that you?

Lilycurly

Well, you see...this is cute. These people actually look normal, not cultish. The worst part is...dad would make the prayer, be sure everyone noticed, and then when one of my brothers started to mess around a bit too much, he would talk very loud and be kind of rude and un-christian like. I used to look at people around us, even more embarassed, because now they were looking at my father and whispering amongst themselves. Such a fine witness!

Dr Jekyll

I once went off to a DC with a small group of brothers in their late teens early 20's. As it was quite a drive we booked into a small family run guest house to stay local to the DC.

One night we were woken by crashing, screaming and banging noises. Two of the brothers that were staying at the other end of the guest house were drunk and play wrestling stark bollock naked in the hall way. They'd started up in their bedroom, smashed that up while fighting then it had spilled out onto the hall way. The noise not only woke us up but the owner of the guest house who came to find what all the noise was and who found two naked idiots wrestling on the floor.

The Guest house owners knew we were all witnesses and at breakfast the next morning there was a very awkward atmosphere between us and the owner and his family.

Lilycurly

Ah! So that's why they always have those special pre-assembly warnings about behaving good in hotels to bring a good name to Jehovah ...lol

Dr Jekyll

lol

It was really embarrassing at the time though. Not only because of the damage they had caused but because they got caught NAKED WRESTLING in the hall surrounded by the rest of us standing there in our underwear

Dismembered

Many times. Once "out in da service". We were engaged in the "unnannounced bugging people at their door(s) campaign", when we come to this house with the householder less than friendly. He said to get lost. He was upset. Sick to death of telling us he's not interested. So what does the idiot driving the car do? He backed over his mail box, and rock wall and got stuck on the rock wall. We had to go back to the angry householder to ask him to help us get the car off his wall. Embarrassed? Just a bit!

Dismembered

Lilycurly

Well...out in service! I guess everyone's got a mortifying experience.

That one time, I was out with a sister, it was her return visit. The woman's husband was washing is car, and when the sister ask him with a wide smile if his wife was home...he looked at us with arrows in his eyes. And said : "I want you out of my property. We hate liars! I will not talk to a liar. Get out!" The sister tried to know why he was saying that. And it truned out that the last time she visited, she gave him magazines to give to his wife, and when asked if his wife knew her, the sister said "Yes, I'm her friend." (now, she had only seen her once.) The men was very angry, and I my face was like a tomatoe...I really wanted to assure him that we weren't all liek that.

Ever embarrassed by a JW?

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