D'oh. Just outed myself to a mate unintentionally.. Elephant

LivingTheDream

A few years after I faded, a JW "friend" me came over to my house to see how I was after I had a serious accident and he heard about it through the grapevine. He hadn't visited me in my "new" home even though I'd been there two years, so you can judge how good a friend he was. Still, he at least tried to visit me which was more than I could say for the many other "friends" I had made at the Kingdom Hall who never even visited me once.

Anyway, my live-in girlfriend opened the door on his surprise visit and let him in, not realizing that I might have not wanted him to come in. Oh well. There I was, convalescing on the couch in front of the huge Christmas tree she and her mother had just put up in my living room. My girlfriend offered him Thanksgiving Turkey we had eaten the day before during our huge feast at my house, which still had all the settings and trimmings left over for him to see and partake from.

He ate the turkey dinner, looked at the tree while asking me how I was and spied my girlfriend return from our bedroom having changed into modest sleepwear.

He left looking puzzled. I've never seen nor heard from this "good friend" since, in any way, good or bad.

That's OK, I've made tons of better friends than him in the mean time that accept me just the way I am and who like to celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving with me.

I don't really miss him.

Brock Talon

Captain Blithering

Yep , it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things , but I wasn't planning on coming out just yet. We'll see if anything comes of it. You never know, if he knows I've got doubts maybe it'll spur him on to do some research himself. . . . . .

DeWandelaar

Had a similair experience once while being in the car with my wife. When I am bored I read on JWN and this time I forgot to close the chrome tab on my phone so when she was asking if she could use the internet on the phone the site just popped up. You know what? I simply did not care :P but she did not like it a bit. It washed over anyways and besides... she already had some idea's of me visiting these sites.

chicken little

After we stopped going to the meetings we had a palm tree thing with lights and ornaments on the first christmas. A sister came by with her kids two days before christmas and all my kids were home with their partners, presents everywhere. We invited her in and I warned her before she came in that we were not going to meetings and we had decorations up. She seemed ok and we had coffee and cake and chatted away. (We had helped this sister and her three kids a great deal in the past, even having them stay in our home for 6 weeks).

Well after she left she went to an elder, who contacted bethel, who told the elders to investigate. (My husband had been an elder for years when we just stopped). My husband met one of the elders in a shop, he told him that the elders were going to come and talk. Don't bother was my husbands reply.

These days I don't care what anyone thinks, this year we are going to dress the pine tree in our garden. Lovely.

Black Sheep

Murphy's Law isn't it?

Every time you forget to navigate your phone out of JWN, a Dub will be looking over your shoulder when you turn it on.

Cousin SuperDub walks in when you have your jukebox on random and it just happens that Brother Sir Nutcase is about to announce that you had better be alive in '75.

outsmartthesystem

"Use theocratic warfare on him. Claim you had thoughts he was a closet apostate and you were trying to flush him out by letting him think you were too."

Sadly....if you act serious enough.....I believe this method would work just fine.

3rdgen

There are many poo filled landmines when trying to fade. Like real ones you never know where or when you'll set one off!

Theredeemer

Although my family knows how my wife and I fill I still refrain from telling them about my birthday party and other "no no's". However, my brother came over and I forgot to take down my "happy Birthday" baloon. I didnt realize it was still up. Needless to say AAAWKWARD!! Has been kind of aloof since. LOL

redvip2000

When i was still in, i remember buying a computer and getting on America Online ( wow its' been a while).

Not knowing anything about computers, i didn't bother cleaning my tracks when visiting "evil" websites. Young elder came to visit my family and decided to say hi to me and look at my new toy.

Still not sure where he clicked but all of these porn links and pages came up. Huge awkward silent moment where he pretended he didn't see it and i wanted to crawl into a hole.

D'oh. Just outed myself to a mate unintentionally.. Elephant - meet room.