A brother just told me about a new assembly procedure. During the program at his d.c. this past week-end (Cornwall, Ontario) the chairman asked everyone to pick up their belongings and leave the stadium immediately. Everyone gathered in a nearby park. The circulating rumor (damage control ?) was that the city wanted to test evacuation procedures for the stadium and thought the J.W assembly would be the best to test with, they being so organized.
The brothers apparently were quite impressed with the rapidity of the procedure and everyone must have been commended from the platform for their outstanding performance because the poor fellow kept repeating to me « imagine getting all those people out in just 7.5 minutes.». Then he confided that he believed the city was mistaken to base their calculations on the J.W evacuation. He told me « don’t they realize that worldly people could never get the stadium cleared in such a short time.
After over 1 hour everyone was asked to return to their seats. As you may guess the program went 1 hour overtime but nobody minded, they were happy to prove to the world that, once again, only J.W’s were capable of doing someone in record time.
What puzzles me is why they had to keep everyone waiting in a park over a hour ? He hadn’t thought of that.