by OUTLAW 44 Replies latest jw friends
Those DAMNED hogies... BLEAH! And I actually paid for that crap at one point?
I got so fed up my friends and I would just leave anyways at lunch, come back late, and not feel the least bit bad about it. Hell, I used to walk to to get a coffee.
I think dubbies should thank jehober that they don't ahve to eat those awful, awful sandwiches.
This made me remember something from many years ago. My husband and I got up very early to go make hoagie sandwiches at the Superdome in New Orleans. First we put our stuff on a couple of chairs.
When we finished the sandwiches, the program had started. We went to our seats, only to find they were occupied. We asked the people sitting there for our stuff. A woman with a huge rear-end said "There wasn't nothin' on these seats when we came." I could see part of my sweater sticking out from underneath her. She just repeated the phrase when I asked for my stuff again. I literally took the edge of my sweater and had to yank it out from underneath her!
During the 70's at the janesville WI. assembly hall attendees would buy a plastic token with the wt logo on it to get a fully-cooked lunch.
There would be things like greek salads, fried chicken, and salsbury steak for lunch.
At 5 in the morning brothers would arrive to start cooking breakfast, the plastic tokens would buy a full breakfast also:
pancakes, bacon, sausage, sara lee pastry, orange juice, milk, coffee. The after lunch paper tickets could be purchased in case you wanted
something like ice cream, cookies, fruit, or soda.
I would work in the kitchen and get a bag or two of leftover's Sunday evening before we left,,,, man that was a neat time.
Too bad they had to end it.
OMG. I worked at the concession stands at Dodger Stadium in the '70's. I fell in love with a fellow volunteer. He was older than me, I was way too shy to make it known. Farkel???????????????
I thought the food was great, I particularly loved those warm donuts in the mornings. The only time in my pre adult life I ever ate a donut. Plain warm cake donuts. I grew up a Vegan, and I thought the convention food was awesome.
Maybe that is why I have an orgasmic reaction to donuts even today.
I'm almost 30 and remember fondly having food at the assemblies. Buying those tickets/coupons and then swapping them for food was so much fun. Preparing the food was great too, as it meant time away from sitting in the assembly hall. No wonder they took food service away, too many were ditching the assembly to go prepare food...lol. I also use to volunteer taking tickets off people and getting their food/tea/coffee. I was only a kid, but it was lots of fun. To me, taking away the food service at assemblies was a big mistake. People enjoyed that part, the socialising it brought too. And for some, buying food at assemblies was part of the 'magic' of it (if you can call it that). My parents were quite poor, yet at assemblies they'd make sure us kids got to buy something on at least one of the days. It meant alot to us :)
I'm sure that they made a profit on the food as no labor was involved and a lot of the food was donated. But we would always buy the books of script (I think that's what its' called) and have a few sheets left over at the end of the assembly. I remember collecting the script to play "food vendor" at home after the assembly.
I wonder just how much unredeemed script was floating around - that's pure profit there :)
Darth Fader.
In addition to the money part, cutting out food helped them eliminate that much "to look forward" from the a$$emblies. Plus, it made it that much harder on people to get up that much earlier to fix their own food from home or the motel rooms (if they were allowed to). We can't have anything that might give people any reason other than the boasting session itself to attend, now could we?
Our PO was also the CA chairman. When they had cut out one aspect of the food service, he told us because we didn't support it properly, this is what we get. It almost sounded like we were being punished as his tone of voice implied.
As we now learned from others here, the long time money maker had failed them. And they were blaming the pubs for the failure and of course they did nothing wrong.
As many have said, the WTS also didn't realize the willing spirit of the volunteers and how much they were encouraged by that experience. For some it was there glimpse of the new order, all working together in a very nice social enviroment.
JW's have few places to meet future husbands/wives, this was one of them.
Yes, the WTS spun the changes for an effeciency take, but I'm sure it was all about the money in the end.
It was my last assembly, 73 or 74, when those poor quality cold cut sandwiches with more poor quality cheese than meat first made an appearance.
The food was very good and cheap before then. I worked the kitchen and food service lines, even handled trash removal just to get out of the seats. Yup, the speakers were everywhere as well as all the wiring that went with it.
