From the "sickeningly compliant" department:
At an assembly, the brother read the announcements prior to lunch, mentioned when the program would resume, and stepped off the platform. But he never said, "You are dismissed"! Oh Gawd! What should we do? You could hear the confused mental bleating of 3,000 mindless sheep. I kid you not, we all stood there, silent, for like 30 seconds. Finally the brother came back up and announced, "You are dismissed."
At the time, I was actually proud that "Jehovah's People" were so obedient. Now I look back and I'm humiliated to have been so utterly controlled that I wouldn't go get lunch until some window-washer told me I could. Sheesh...
Dave