Passing the time at boring meetings

by jws 25 Replies latest jw friends

  • jws
    jws

    I was doing some cleaning this weekend and ran across a drawer with a few of my old calculators, including my very first one. It didn't do much. Today they have ones that are credit-card sized that do more. But I remember getting it when I was about 12 and in 6th or 7th grade and at that time in the late 70's a calculator this size was still sort of a gadget.

    For some reason the first thing that bounced into my mind when I pulled it out and looked at it was my old hall at the time. I had almost forgotten how this little gadget had helped me get through the mind-numbing boredom of weekly meetings. Of course toys were forbidden at meetings, but this little "toy" could slip easily into a suit coat pocket. For some reason anything seemed fascinating when listening to talks. I could see what the square root of 2 was, of 3, of 5, etc. I could add up things and practice my math. I could try to spell things with the LED numbers. Basically ANYTHING was more interesting than those talks. Coincidentally(?) I went on to be very good at math and left the JWs.

    What about all of you? Did you have any toys or diversions to get you through yet another dissertation on some modern-day such-and-such class?

  • morty
    morty

    oh ya, I remember them days.....My favorite was taking my little brothers down stairs to change their diapers or get them to settle down...mom and dad did not want to miss the important meetings....I pushed it once though...he started to screem so I took him out side to run around...we then went into the car to listen to music....well I wanted to listen to the music and pig out on a bag of chips in the car...Yes it was 10.00 in the morning but it was a rockin time compared to being in hell for the meeting...I got spoken to after that and there was know more going outside

  • proudassmonkey
    proudassmonkey

    my little sister and i used to write notes back and forth. it was usually about the "brother" giving the talk. and for some reason my parents gave me my notebook with all my stuff when they moved out to california. (i guess they thought i would read the notes from the meeting and want to come back) really all i did was read the notes from my little sister and it made me pissed off once again that because of the witnesses and their stand on blood she's nothing but a box of gd ashes..... oh well.... those notes though make me smile when i think of her.

    melissa

  • fairy
    fairy

    i use to draw little stick pictures in the corners of my song book or bible and then flick the pages so it looked like a cartoon

  • Mac
    Mac

    I'd draw little comic strips featuring caricatures of the local elders during the public talk and pass them down to my friends. ( Sure made better reading than the Watchtower!!)

    mac

  • shamus
    shamus

    I, too, used to draw pictures and captions on the watchtowers. It was funny... also, used to draw on the inside of the cover of my bible, etc.

  • Mac
    Mac
    also, used to draw on the inside of the cover of my bible, etc.

    Shamus...you are so screwed .....I believe that to be a sin against the Holy Spirit.....may you rot in hell!!!!!!!!!

    mac

    *Oh, wait...that was a NWT you were scribbling in......may you cease to exist for all eternity!*

  • shamus
    shamus

    Mac,

    As usual, you make me giggle. At a D.C. a friend and I drew stick figures killing each other... pages and pages. It was actually fun! Of course, we got carried away with it, as usual. (oh, we were such rebels..)

  • Mac
    Mac

    Ya tend to lean a bit toward the morbid don't you?

    mac

  • shamus
    shamus

    Mac,

    Did it take you this long to figure that out???

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