Whats the strangest thing you've seen someone get in trouble for?

by LaniB 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  LaniB

  I remember one windy summer day, after a meeting on Sunday morning, I walked out of the hall behind a sister who was part of the church congregation with her two teenage children. Her husband did not attend.

  The wind caught her dress unexpectedly and blew it up a'la Marilyn Monroe and revealed that she was wearing (shock, horror) french knickers...... There were a few murmers behind me which I at the time put down to things like "oh poor girl, so embarrassing". The woman calmly pushed her dress down, did not look back and headed straight for her car.

  It wasn't until the next week I realised something strange was going on. From the conversation of certain men and women you would have thought she'd been caught naked pole dancing. She was ostracised by a lot of the congregation for quite a while afterwards. All over wearing a simple pair of french knickers.

  I always thought that was very weird. After all, I never saw anywhere in the Bible where it said "And God said you shall not wear french knickers."
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  nvrgnbk

  french knickers

  Nice!
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  kwintestal

  I was DF'd for my creative writing as a teen. Only writing.

  Kwin
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  vitty

  I know a brother who counselled another brother because when his wife was on the platform giving a talk he said he could see her nipples through her jumper and he had been distracted from the meeting..............

  They left the truth a few months later
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  aarque

  I was counselled once because someone told the CO that while out in service, I was seen taking a ceramic planter off someone's porch and smashing it on the ground. I was shocked and told him it never happened, not even accidently, but he kept insisting someone saw me do it. I never went out in service again.
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  Hannah

  My son was drug into the "back room" after a meeting because someone supposedly saw him walking down main street with his friend who appeared drunk. He wasn't. His friend is just a big goof ball that acts like one. It was witch hunt really. This was the third and last time the elders did this to my baptized son. After this my son never went back to the KH and is now living a free life like the rest of us--yeah!
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  Cellist

  A MS in our hall was asked to step down because his son (not living at home, not an active JW) and a "spiritually weak" single sister met and fell in love. Supposedly this MS and his wife were accidently the reason they met.
  
  Cellist
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  Hortensia

  I got in trouble as a teenager because I was wearing flesh colored underwear under my dress and one of the older ladies in the congregation thought I didn't have any underwear on. I heard about that for quite a while, nosy old witches.
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  yumbby

  I have to ask... What are french knickers?
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  alotlikemay

  ok, well I was a bit of a hero - aged 15, I got baptised and vacation-pioneered (that's what aux pioneering was called in those days) that year too. I mean, it was amazing because you had to do a lot of hours in those days and I was only 15! well, it was April so we kinda thought the weather was going to be good but no, it snowed and snowed. So, determined to still get my hours in, I went out valiantly in the ministry in all the snow and cold.... but I wore trousers one day and oh, what a fuss!! instead of commending me for my hard work I was taken to one side and counselled... and my mother was told off once for wearing a red coat. Red coats are evidently a sign of harlotry - did ya know that?