Street work

by truthseeker 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  truthseeker

  Did any of you ever do street work? Standing on corners holding up the Awake and Watchtower magazines? All hours, all weathers? Street Work reminds me of Randy Crawford's "Street Life" - I've modified the lyrics...
  
  Street Work
  Because that's one place we can go
  Street Work
  Because there's no one that I know
  Street Work
  You can see it in my face
  Street Work
  I've a hundred tracts to place
  
  You people never see
  The reason that I'm here
  I have to count my time
  This work is such a sham
  This life of mine that's played
  Is just a masquerade
  The way I dress and talk
  This isn't who I am
  
  Street Work
  I can't run away from time
  Street Work
  It'll be over when it's nine
  Street Work
  I'm starting to get cold
  Street Work
  This message is getting old
  
  I'm not trying to make a sale
  Paradise is no fairy tale
  Just take these magazines
  But they politely decline
  They smile and look at me
  I watch them as they go
  But time is getting on
  There's a group to meet at nine
  
  Street Work
  Street Work
  Street Work
  Oh street work
  
  I do Street Work
  Because that's one place we can go

  Truthseeker
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  redvip2000

  I did street work all of the time, but not the type where you stand there waiting for someone to approach you. We would walk the streets and approach anybody that was around.

  I used to absolutely hate it, because at least on door to door preaching there was the likely chance of someone not being at home or not answering the door which is 95 percent of all doors, but in street work you had to approach people, and people hate to be approached when they are going somewhere in a hurry.
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  truthseeker

  redvip,
  
  We would also walk up and down Main Street. We had English and spanish tracts and mags as our town had a lot of Latinos living there.
  
  I hated every minute of it, preferred laundromats.
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  sporece

  I was 23 years old in the 70's and would stand outside a High School in one of the suburb in Chicago at 8 in the morning placing 40- 60 magazine every morning.

  That was when i first learned the "truth" and just got baptized.

  Eventually after a while i despised street work. I always felt like an idiot.
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  out4good3

  RIP

  Joe Sample

  Wayne Henderson

  of the Jazz Crusaders.....

  Two Great Musicians.
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  AmericanCaesar

  Well, in Portugal you don't see this really much, even in big cities. I personnaly think that the street work works better than preaching door to door.
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  dugout

  street work??? is annoying to people, one brother followed me down the street when I didnt respond had to look at him as if to say back off

  Out for-dont forget about my man george duke. my Idle
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  dugout

  oh by the way. nice song seeker, got a medoly for it already
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  Zordino

  Street work is so great

  You better not be late

  to be indoctrinated full of hate

  oh it will be great

  When your head get filled will lies

  people will see it in your eyes

  That you've gone to the other side

  having your brain all washed with Tide..

  etc.... LoL
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  compound complex

  Agreed on the points made regarding all aspects of the viability and desirability (or non-) of street work.

  Does anyone know why cart manners are officially instructed not to approach passersby?

  Thanks!

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