do you remember the Last assembly you attended?

by crystlew123 39 Replies latest jw experiences

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  crystlew123

  I dont remember the date. Or the year or if it was a District or Circuit. What I do remember is that we rode up with a car full of other female witnesses. My dad was unable to attend for some reason. I think he had just had surgery. In anycase... There are like six of us in the van. I REALLY didnt want to go. REALLY REALLY REALLY. I begged. I bribed. I did everything I could not to go- even saying I had to stay home to help dad out. I was 15? In anycase. I made some remark and got instnt reproof from all the sisters in the car. So I did what every teenager does and sank into the back of the van, pulled my headphones on and disappeared.

  The next day AT the assembly. I roamed around. I walked my a@@ off. But I had brought a blanket and a pillow INSIDE with me. Carried it to my seat. I was also a avid writer at the time (all stories NO JW should ever read let alone write. Vampires, ghosts, sex, pornographic stuff lol) I wrote until my arm fell off, not hearing a single word that was said. Then I pulled my headphones from my bag, wrapped up in my blanket, popped my pillow under my head and nodded off wit the walkman on LOUD. I know the sisters and brothers around us could hear it but nothing was said. Whats even better was that it was ANDREW WK, and the one song on there that I played and replayed over and over was I WANT SEX. He screams it about 500 times during the song. I fell asleep. SLept through damn near the entire day.

  Needless to say Mom was NOT impresssed. But she never stopped it either. I think she had given up at that point. But then my mom was never confrontational either. I think she probably just sighed and cried to the other sisters....seeing as how she did leave the room that night to go to the other sisters room for several hours...I wasnt invited....ha.

  I know I did the same thing the next day too. Wrote pages up on pages up on pages of story, all the while my walk- man screaming I WANT SEX into my teenage ears.

  The ride home was....interesting to say the least. I was pretty much avoided- even in the small cramped van, other than a lecture by the other sisters when my mom wasnt around about how I was hurting my mom, and Jehovah of course. I just shrugged, glared at them and said "I didnt want to come to this crap anyway." then something about bringing up children in the lords way or some other crap like that from them. I think i basically just turned my music up higher and dove into my writing.

  Oh, one more memory. Since dad was an elder he gave talks at other congregations frequently. I remember being an avid writer then too. I remember more than one brother (and sister) complimenting me on my "note-taking". I just smiled and nodded. My dad always gave me this look of dont you dare say anything , dont you dare- he knew what i was doing, but couldnt stop it. I would take about a page of notes ont he actual talk just to convinve him I was doing what I was supposed to then I would turn the page and hop on off.About the only way I could STAND to be at the meetings and not die from boredom or from laughing my a@@ off at the rediculousness of it all.
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  jam

  Definitely, I gave a talk on the family (1986), Df 1987.
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  Broken Promises

  It was a DC, I was already mentally out.

  I didn't sing nor did I clap. I remember one speaker saying something like "isn't it wonderful to be in Jehovah's brotherhood?" or some crap like that and I just sat there. I refused to clap for something I didn't believe in. The sister who was sitting next to me looked at me but I just looked ahead. I wasn't clapping. What are you going to do to me?
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  mrsjones5

  Yes, it was 1988 in Fresno, CA. I was pounds lighter (won't say how much but I was looking good), had made this beautiful sundress that showed off my figure (don't know wat I did with that dress but I still have the pattern I used), and I had the perfect pumps to got with my outfit (I didn't even wear pantyhose - it was too freaking hot!). Don't remember a thing about the convention itself...more the pity.
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  finally awake

  I must have blocked it from my memory - I know I attended at least one day of the Circuit Assembly in 2011, but I can't remember anything at all about it
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  greenhornet

  I do remember, there was a pioneer sister got me and my grown dauter to come to a C assembly. We sat behind her and she was cryed during one of the talks. We later found out she was so emotional about us "coming back" It creeped us out so we both went out side during the rest of the day walking around the parking lot. That was about 1995.

  When my dauter was little I , she never sat and listen she was like 4 years old. So I took her for a walk outside. Infact during all assemblys I never sat and listin Id just walk outside with my kids will my now ex wife always was a good JW and just sat and listened.
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  fakesmile

  about 1.5 years ago. my then apostate friend and i were partying thru saturday with friends. he said that he had to make the sunday session for family and talked me into going. they held it in a dumpy cramped center of some kind, dont remember and dont want to. several things. 1. a reletively new ass. hall was a 20 min drive away. 2. it was strategicly located 10 mins away from the closest grub. arbys. eww. 3. for anyone taller than '5.5 the seats were PURE hell. i ended up falling asleep and snoring, possibly some drool, on the bros shoulder sitting next to me. 3 days of that and i would have had some major back and leg problems. cool enough the bro next to me who i snored on, a shorter, guy was so cool about it. at lunch we spoke and he said the seating was so uncomfortable that he had trouble even paying attention. how ppl subject themselves to this voluntarily are loco.
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  Iamallcool

  Yes, it was a good one and a bad one. Enough said.
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  ShirleyW

  Greenhornet - Something in your post is a true eyecatcher.
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  EntirelyPossible

  I didn't even wear pantyhose - it was too freaking hot!

  Bare legs are sexier anyway, Jonesie. unless it's a cocktail party and the pantyhose are black, maybe with a pattern or the black line running up the back of the leg. Those are sexy.