JWs- How Often Do You Have "Crazy" Meeting Nights?

Any time something crazy happens, I somehow seem to be involved...

Like the Ministry School/Service Meeting two weeks ago: I had forgotten to bring my song book--that was the first strike x_x. I then went about setting up the sound system like normal, testing 1 2 3 ect., when I realized that one mike box was dead, e.i, not transmitting to the mike. So I grab some other brothers, and we are all scrambling to get it fixed (cus there was only like 10 minutes till meeting time! O_O ). We are having no success with getting the wireless mike fixed, and so we get the idea, "Hey! We still have the wires and the wall plug ins, so why not just use a wired mike like we used to?" Brilliant! So I run up to the back room and grab an old mike and drag all the wires out, plug it into the socket and...it didn't work? huh? BUT ITS PLUGGED STRAIGHT INTO THE WALL AND ITS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MIKE! ARGH! So all night long the two aisle attendants (me being one), had to stand right next to each other in the very back, passing one mike back and forth. :( It also didn't make me feel much better when, near the end of the meeting, another brothers just randomly pulled one wire out the mike box, put it back in and it somehow fixed it! When we did the exact same thing it didn't work for us! Argh! T_T

Or I could mention the time that the speaker accidentally called out the wrong song for the end of the meeting (he called out the song that we had already played at the beginning), and I actually started playing what he called out cus I wasn't paying attention x_x. Everyone in the audience was kinda like, "*mumble mumble pretend to sing* *looks around oddly*." And I was like, "Why is nobody singing the song??" Then a servant comes running back to whispering, "Wrong song! Wrong song!" And I had to cut the music completely off, wait for the speaker to go back up on the stage and announce a whole different song T__T. Needless to say I was slightly embarrassed after...

Or I could mention the time that I accidentally stopped the song a full refrain short of the end! x_x And then when everyone tried to start singing without the music, I tried to time it and start the song completely over and just let it go for one refrain, but that only messed people up worse! T__T. Needless to say, I was slightly embarrassed after...

Or i could mention the time that I forgot to adjust the mike for the speaker, and it was a full foot over his head! Or the time I tripped on the mike cord in the middle of the isle, or the times that I've forgotten that I had the mike when the speaker asked a question and he had to yell at me to get my attention, or...you know what, I'm just gonna stop now before I make myself sad again...

LOL,Vot! Yes I've been at many 'crazy meetings'. It usually starts with the sound Brother playing the wrong song and then it just gets goofier from there and everything just seems to make us laugh.

Just last night the School Overseer was almost about to do the Bible reading himself because he couldn't see the youngster who was assigned to read it. But then the little boy popped up ready to do the Bible reading and the Brother cracked up and the little boy did the reading. The little boy had a lot of problems with pronunciation. Of course that was what he was working on. The Brother kindly though commended him on all the good things he did during the reading.

That wasn't too far out but I have been at many meetings where we all ended up laughing the whole time because nobody seemed able to get things right. We are just imperfect humans after all and sometimes it's really funny.

Last night was our school. What a hoot. Service meeting was all over the place. A very shy servant gave a talk and presentation on the Brochure placement for this month. He gave an illustration to show how we need to know what will reach our householder. A vacuum salesman knocks on this sisters door and has a green vaccum with polka dots on it and she likes it. He goes to a brothers door with the same vaccum and the brother is puzzled. What is this and why are you showing it to me? We were cacking up because he nailed these two as to their likes and dislikes. But he also showed us his sense of humor.

COBE asked if anyone knew the date of our Special one day Assembly. I raised my hand, thinking nothing of it. I heard him say, "only one person knows?" Then he says, "Well we have a special annoucement, Sister Whaley will tell us when it is." I thought he was going to tell them. My mind has gone blank and I look around. I am thinking what if my memory has failed me and I have the wrong date? No mic so I say loudly, "April 10, 2010." That is correct but I was in shock.

Seemore's telling of Sunday's happenings is good. We never laughed so hard, and so often in a meeting for awhile. We do have fun and exhibit Jehovah's humor.

This goes way back to when we lived in a very rural part of Kentucky, about 75 miles down the road.

My husband and I were visiting the congregation one county over, and he was to give the Sunday talk.

We were running late and got there about 7 minutes before time to start. No one was there. At first we thought we got the date or time mixed up, but 2 minutes before the time, one brother shows up.

He unlocks the door and we go in. This was in the DEAD OF WINTER with snow on the ground. AND THERE WAS NO HEAT. The brother went over to start a fire in a WOOD STOVE.

Even though we waited 5 minutes, no one else came, so my husband started his talk WITH HIS OVERCOAT ON. Within 10 minutes, there were another 18 people who came in.

Of course, this was a small congregation and that was every Witness and one visitor. The Kingdom Hall warmed up enough to take our coats off in the last two or three paragraphs of the WT lesson. And it never got above 50 or so.

My teeth were actually chattering and you could see your breath when you gave a comment. My kids thought that was funny and would not quit laughing every time a comment was made by someone.

I had mentioned in another question that at our district convention in Dayton Ohio that the electricity went out for an hour and we had to sit in the dark for an hour while things were checked out.

Then the lights came on, the program started again, and promptly went out again. The brother, just starting his talk realized this time that the microphone was still working and he just went on with his talk in the dark. A brother came out on the platform and held a flashlight for him to do his talk for the next half hour.

That afternoon, the rain, thunder and lightning was actually shaking this large arena. Just as the brother came to the microphone for the closing prayer, there was real strong, rolling thunder and the building shook - the brother said "Jehovah" and STONE SILENCE - I mean REAL STONE SILENCE. Not a peep outside.

The rain stopped immediately. And we all left the arena with no clouds and sunshine.

We had one meeting like that a while ago.

The part I will always remember was a Br had a 15min part from the KM and there was a word in the paragraph that was a bit unusual. Most of us had not seen it before and had looked it up. So had he.

But, the fun started when he asked the audience for ''similies' and we were off and running!

One answer after another was not quite right (to his mind) so he kept asking until almost everyone at the meeting had tried. His part of 15 mins stretched out past 20 and was heading to 25 as even the most straight and mature sisters were hiding their (our) faces as tears of laughter rolled. I got the hiccups because I tried to smother an outright belly laugh. He did not seem to notice the uproar he had caused and his completely innocent manner meant that nobody was ever going to 'chat' him for his effort. He was SO sweet but naive .. I love to remember that night. We need a good laugh these days.

Vot this is hilarious, and we have had to have WS first due to late and no show visiting brothers on Sundays.

We have one brother that you have to be very careful calling on as you never know what he is going to say. Tonight for example we ha BK study and it was on cleanness.

The brother answers my mom wanted me real clean so she spit on me...lol

Well he meant his mom would lick her thumb and rub a dirty spot on his face but he answers a bit oddly so some times you have to ask him again after the meeting to get a full understanding of what he means.

I think it is cute to see the face the conductor makes after his answers. (the brother has some salt and pepper gray hair going on just so you do not think he is 5)

We had another time where a young sister wore a wrap around skirt with a tie in the back. The knott was annoying her so she pulled it planning on fixing it later. Well we stood up for song and she started to walk to the bathroom however her skirt stayed at the seat... she was horrified... thank goodness for slips but we could not help but to laugh after she was in the restroom. She is all grown up now....

And finally my mom was really in to this talk when my little brother had to go potty. My mom rush him to the bathroom and was in a real hurry to get back to the talk. Half way up the isle she turns around to tell him to hurry because he was walking so slow. When she turned around she noticed his pants and underwear were still around his ankles...

I just don't have anything in my hall close to being that wild but Kerika26, above, has me crying I am laughing so hard. I am rolling on the floor cracking up! I can just see a toddler saying that rap line.

And Brother Harry Potter? Ohmigoodness. That is too funny.

Starwars, that is hysterical.

Hannah J Paul

Doesn't it stand out as a good time?

I remember the blunder meetings as some of the best because we all had a good laugh. Not at the mistakes or the brothers but some nights we are just off. We try so hard and like all families we fall short sometimes....We love each other so much that we limp through with understanding.....Thanks for sharing sis.

A few years ago my husband and another elder were to do a demonstration of EITHER the Watchtower OR the Awake, or so my husband thought! The brother who was doing the demonstration with him asked him how he was today, and my husband was supposed to say, he was busy, but then listen. After the brother got done with the Awake, hubby turns around, and walks back up the aisle. The brother on the stand whispered at him, 'Hey, Ray, we're not done!" Ray hurried back, took the mic and said, 'I TOLD you I was busy!"

The same meeting, a little girl fell asleep about halfway thru meeting, and she had awful gas. Her mother finally picked her up, heading to the back with her, and the little girl tooted all the way back. We almost had to evacuate.

This was the same hall where we had a family with the last name of "Funk". The sister would always stand in the back, and I don't know how many times the various brothers would call on her, saying, "Sister Funk, in the rear..."!! Argh!!

We have had several meetings at the hall I attend now, in the dark. We all whip out our cell phones, turn 'em on, and continue with the speaker using a lantern. Kind of fun, and the little kids just love it.

At one meeting, me, that is Van, asked everyone in the congregation to look up Revelation chapter 30 verse something.

We all know the book of Revelation does not have 30 chapters.

Van's bible study excitedly told Van about his mistake when Van sat down.

Then, the Presiding overseer then got up and gave a talk on Revelation, and asked all to look up Revelation chapter 30 verse something or other.

For more than a year, Van's bible study reminded Van of his Revelation debacle, and how the presiding overseer followed suit.

P.S. I forgot to mention that the congregation laughed like crazy when we both made the same error. However, the presiding overseer didn't know what everyone was laughing about. They laughed at me, which I liked because, hey we all make mistakes that are funny.

PSS. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters giving their all for Jehovah, and the school.

PSSS. May Jehovah bless you, and all who call on his name out of a clean heart. There are only good things ahead, in God's Kingdom. May Jehovah's name be sanctified.

Van