LizzyJo

I tried, but it didn't work and I didn't want to mess with it. Impatience is a pet peeve when other people do it.

In regard to the licking-finger-when-turning-pages peeve I agree. I especially don't like to see it at a door while the householder is standing there watching the Friend contaminate the magazines that she intends to hand to the householder. Google this: video of boy licking finger while turning pages

Many years ago I was standing in line at the post office, reading a book. I inadvertently allowed a space of about 5 feet to appear in front of me. A man just walked in the door and went directly to that space and stood there. It was a very long line and the people behind me grumbled and then a man spoke up and told the line cutter that the end of the line was behind us. The line cutter said something like, I thought this was the end of the line. The man who spoke up answered him by saying, "These ladies have never been in the army; they don't know how to stand in line." To general chuckles, the line cutter went to the rear of the line.

I never liked the idea of getting in a bidding war with brothers or sisters. Let them have it and at a cheaper price. To get in a bidding war over a Kingdom publication seems wrong; It reminds me of greed and covetousness.

One of our brothers was met at the door by a person who said, "I'm a Roman Catholic." Our brother said, "Sometime when you are stationary you might have time to read these magazines."

I saw something a few times that was almost as funny as that. When I went out early to the place where my horses were boarded, I'd sometimes see all (about twenty of them) the horses looking nervously up at a wooded hill. There were coyotes and wildcats and occasionally a cougar around so they would get me feeling spooked. Then one morning I saw the scary thing--a couple of deer!

Yes I have received excellent advice and I thank all but one of you.

Nice. I overlooked it the first time because I thought it was going on with the comic theme this has turned into, but after your last comment (did you even read my OP?) I am not so sure you meant it in a kind way or even a funny way, No, the emoticon doesn't get you out of this one.

How interesting. Make me a target if it pleases you, Musky. Until the last Ava comment I didn't feel like a target and she even said in her reply that she was not making me a target. I did a follow-up post to her that I think explained things a bit better. But thanks for the shot from left field.

This part was simply asking a question This part wasn't. In the latter part of my post about the target, I was trying to make a comment along the line of "Don't shoot the messenger"

Not a spanking, there was another thread on that. How about a time out in another room with a door? Works for me and that's all I wanted in my original post.

I don't know--are there screamers there?

The point of today's text is not to make stumbling blocks for others. Don't you think that street runs both ways? Peace is nice, I'd like to be able to sit in a meeting and have some. Are you suggesting that these parents whose babies are crying are causing stumbling blocks for you? Really? YES And not just me. There are others. I have just posted here so you make me the target. I was thinking about staying home and listening by telephone, but others have told he they tried that and can hear the crying over the phone system

I sit in the second row back from the front and I am almost deaf, but as I explained, the mothers take the screamers into the lobby which is built like an echo chamber instead of to the mothers' room where there is a rocking chair and a built-in speaker so they don't have to miss any of the meeting, When the screamer calms down they both come back to the main hall. Simplr.no? Guess not.

I have asked two or three (as have others) to say something to the miscreants and to a man they say something like,"Oh. I don't want to get involved in that--uhh-uh" John Wayne would call thay "lily livered". That's one I haven't tried yet, maybe tomorrow. Do you have to ask first or can you just grabs the screamer and take it away and leave it in the courtyard area?