People I Have Known!

[DavidA]

Several Years back, I lived just down the street from a J.W. Kingdom Hall, needless to say they were at our door 2 or 3 times a week, sometimes 3 times a day! My neighbor Emmett lived 3 doors down the street. Emmett was a real character; he was a beer drinker's beer drinker! Emmett had built a small home bar just off his living room about 8 X 10 feet. He was also very tired of the constant stream of J.W's at his door. Emmett owned a large Dry Cleaning business. One day a city truck pulled up and brought in the Black Velvet drapes that were used in the City Council Chambers. They told him they wouldn't need them back for at least 2 months because of a remodel on the Chambers. Emmett had a brain storm! He was going to fix the J.W's and stop them from bothering him ever again. He brought the Black Velvet drapes home and hung them in his home bar. Then he got a podium and set it up in the middle of the room. On the podium, he put a large old book and a full size plastic skull with used drippy candles on either side. After drawing a pentagram around the podium, He was ready! A couple of days later, he saw them coming up his front walk. He ran in and lighted the candles, put on a judges robe and met them at the front door. He greeted them with great enthusiasm, He said they were just starting their service and they should join him. Grabbing one with each arm, he dragged them around the corner into his bar. When they saw the skull, candles and pentagram, they left burn marks on the carpet getting out of there! When I moved 3 years later, the J.W's would not even walk down his side of the street.


Not Meant to Offend Anyone
DavidA.

 

[bitshird]

Several Years back, I lived just down the street from a J.W. Kingdom Hall, needless to say they were at our door 2 or 3 times a week, sometimes 3 times a day! My neighbor Emmett lived 3 doors down the street. Emmett was a real character; he was a beer drinker's beer drinker! Emmett had built a small home bar just off his living room about 8 X 10 feet. He was also very tired of the constant stream of J.W's at his door. Emmett owned a large Dry Cleaning business. One day a city truck pulled up and brought in the Black Velvet drapes that were used in the City Council Chambers. They told him they wouldn't need them back for at least 2 months because of a remodel on the Chambers. Emmett had a brain storm! He was going to fix the J.W's and stop them from bothering him ever again. He brought the Black Velvet drapes home and hung them in his home bar. Then he got a podium and set it up in the middle of the room. On the podium, he put a large old book and a full size plastic skull with used drippy candles on either side. After drawing a pentagram around the podium, He was ready! A couple of days later, he saw them coming up his front walk. He ran in and lighted the candles, put on a judges robe and met them at the front door. He greeted them with great enthusiasm, He said they were just starting their service and they should join him. Grabbing one with each arm, he dragged them around the corner into his bar. When they saw the skull, candles and pentagram, they left burn marks on the carpet getting out of there! When I moved 3 years later, the J.W's would not even walk down his side of the street.


Not Meant to Offend Anyone
DavidA.

David, when I was a young foolish person in Boston in the early 1970s I lived with a girl who was into what later became known as Wicca, not as a joke but as a way of life, we also had the Witnesses showing up at our apartment building about once or twice a month so 'Lovey' her given name was Lovelady invited them in and showed them her alter which was in the living room, they spent the next three hours trying to convince her how bad her life was and didn't leave until we lit a funny little hand rolled sweet smelling cigarette. But they never came back in the six or seven more months I lived with her.