It really annoyed me when my mother would menacingly ask within 2 minutes of visiting her, "have you DONE the days text?" or "we DO the days text in the evening". What constitutes 'DOING' it', I ask myself? The majority (I have to admit, me included) just read it in 20 seconds flat to be able to bring a point of it up with their service partner to show that they had indeed DONE it. Then enjoying the superiority feelings if the other hadn't.
The inevitable asterisk at the bottom of a watchtower paragraph, "see wt 15/4/00(2) paras 5,6." Then an elderette or spinster with arm stretched immediately heavenwards dying to be picked because they had 'researched' it. Groan inwardly.
Or elderly, poorly educated Sis Dimwit who had looked up the word 'exacerbate' in the dictionary and then merely repeated the definition word for word and nothing else for her answer.
We took to doodling in the margins during the wt 'study' for ages before we left. A firm favourite was a Furbie drawn to perfection by my husband saying, "mmmm boring....."
I wonder what wt 15/4/00(2) paras 5,6 actually says? Or was it written 4/15/00...