What unusual or funny experiences that happened during a meeting that you have attended?

[Pabo]

I happen to be in a congregation that is usually "relaxed" in what goes on during the meetings, and just goes with the flow.

 

Currently, since going back to the KH for our in-person meetings, around our KH, we have 5 out of 7 new direct neighbors since March 2020, and the street that the KH is in, more than half of the houses have been sold. So them getting used to having us back at the KH is something strange to them. Our KH is at the end of a cul-de-sac in the middle of residential area.

However, one of our new neighbours has some chickens and ducks in their backyard. On the Sunday morning meetings, we now have to contend with "Ronnie the Rooster" as one elder called him during the Watchtower Study, due to incessantly crowing during the meeting. Some are much annoyed by him, whereas some of us just smile at the timing of when he does it. During the Watchtower on the weekend, my wife answered about being peaceable as Jesus, and that we may need to show this in dealing with "Ronnie' when he crows.

 

We had an very elderly Italian brother once was giving the closing part to the midweek meeting many years ago. Now, just think of Samuel Herd in the way he delivers his talks, but replace him with short version of Marlon Brando as the Godfather. Instead of introducing the closing song and prayer, he walked up to the lectern, and just started praying. Then when he finished, he just just looked up, looked at the audience and said "I think I missed something out. That's right, we should have sung a song before the prayer. Oh well, there is nothing like a bit of variety". He announced the song number and we sung the song. He then says, "That's it, the meeting over".

 

We had had many a story in my congregation, but they just a sample of what has happened. I'm sure that many had other experiences like these.

Edited May 16, 2022 by Pabo

[Bruceq]

We had an older brother on stage trying to adjust his mike and it swung around all the way to the back of his head. Nobody could stop laughing including him.

 

We also had a microphone handler that had a wireless mike that he had in his pocket when he went to the restroom. It was left on but i will not tell you any more details. But some of the elderly sisters were not amused.

Edited May 16, 2022 by Bruceq

[Saffron]

Very old brother prayed for protection from Satan and his whores.

 

Pretty sure that should have been hoards. 

[jps]

we had a very busy elder here in Västerås/Sweden

and his wife often helped him with spell checking and printing his talks

 

we figured she probably did some writing for him as well because one time he paused in the middle of a talk, looked at his wife and slowly mumbled

"no...Kerstin, i cant say that..."

 

 

 

Edited May 16, 2022 by jps

[Pabo]

8 hours ago, Bruceq said:

We had an older brother on stage trying to adjust his mike and it swung around all the way to the back of his head. Nobody could stop laughing including him.

 

We also had a microphone handler that had a wireless mike that he had in his pocket when he went to the restroom. It was left on but i will not tell you any more details. But some of the elderly sisters were not amused.

I have heard stories of wireless mics going into restrooms.

 

Another one I heard was that the brother walked from the main hall into the foyer to relieve some gas, but had his hands behind his back holding the microphone. Not sure whether he was set up by the brother on the sound desk by turning up the mixer on his mic, but most in the congregation thought it was a Harley Davidson being kick started.

[Cushi]

That’s crazy you posted this! I was JUST about to create a thread entitled “funny moments at the Kingdom Hall” talking about the same thing. 
My experiences are from before the pandemic. One time were were singing the song “you did it for me” and a brother standing next to me was singing the song with a French accent… and he’s not even French. He’s from Texas! It literally took everything in me not to laugh 😆

 

I also remember when I was a child there was a sister in our congregation that would spank and slap her children in the meeting. One day her son had on her pearl necklace and she said out loud “boy, what are you doing with my necklace on!” She then snatched it off his neck and pearls went bouncing all over the place. Me and my sister couldn’t help but laugh. We got our ears pulled/twisted by my mom but it was worth it 😆

[BLEmom]

8 hours ago, Saffron said:

Very old brother prayed for protection from Satan and his whores.

 

Pretty sure that should have been hoards. 

I don’t know. I think protection from whores is also a good thing!! 😂

[Tortuga]

I wasn't there but tekmantwo told me about this one. A young brother was saying prayer at the meeting and he asked for Jehovah's forgiveness because "we are but dust" but it sounded like he said "we are Butt Dust" 

[Pabo]

2 hours ago, *Jack* said:

That’s crazy you posted this! I was JUST about to create a thread entitled “funny moments at the Kingdom Hall” talking about the same thing. 
My experiences are from before the pandemic. One time were were singing the song “you did it for me” and a brother standing next to me was singing the song with a French accent… and he’s not even French. He’s from Texas! It literally took everything in me not to laugh 😆

Great minds think alike.

 

I knew of a brother who didn't like singing at all, but used to just read the words out loud. It was very off putting, and he really was tone deaf as well 😖.

 

When the song consisted of 3 verses, 3 of us brothers used to sing a line each, where one sang verse 1, another sang verse 2, and the third would sing verse 3 all at the start of the song, then proceed to the next verse that came after it, or if you sung verse 3, then you would sing verse 1. The poor brothers around us didn't know what line to sing when they went to the next verse.

 

For "Forward You Witnesses" we all sang in a thick German accent and stomping our feet in time with the beat.

 

God's Loyal Love (Song 108 or 114 in the old Songbook) got us into trouble a bit. At one circuit assembly, for the chorus we decided to change the lyrics to the following and sang it loud enough for those around us to hear which made them all giggle each time we sang the chorus:

"Hey there, all you thirsty ones

Come and drink Schweppes Lemonade.

Yes, come drink, you thirsty ones;

What you need is Schweppervescence."

I think from when we did it (back in the late 80's), as from that point on, I think this song never was used for a circuit assembly. So we may have jinxed it.

 

 

[Thomas Walker]

We had a COs talk, where he spoke to the kids in the Cong, and invited them to share what they were looking forward to in Paradise.

 

He gave an example about how he was looking forward to hearing a tiger purr.

 

One girl in the Cong threw her hand up eagerly, and when she got the microphone, she said: "We learned about tigers in school, and they don't actually purr!"

 

And the hall erupted into laughter. The CO hammed it up, covering his heart with both hands, putting on a broken-hearted look, but the talk went on.

[BLEmom]

We had a DO give a talk at an assembly. He was talking about worldly attitudes and selfishness and he starting imitating the seagulls from Finding Nemo. “Mine! mine!  mine!!!  
Every kid in that assembly was glued to him from that point on. Lol

[Dustparticle]

On 5/16/2022 at 12:57 PM, Saffron said:

Very old brother prayed for protection from Satan and his whores.

 

Pretty sure that should have been hoards. 

He was right no matter what word he said.

[Cushi]

On 5/16/2022 at 10:11 PM, Pabo said:

For "Forward You Witnesses" we all sang in a thick German accent and stomping our feet in time with the beat.

😆

[Cushi]

On 5/16/2022 at 11:57 AM, Saffron said:

Very old brother prayed for protection from Satan and his whores.

 

Pretty sure that should have been hoards. 

One time a brother opened up his prayer by saying “Dear Heavenly Father, Jehovah. We come before you this evening with black hearts.” 😆

[sully313]

Not a meeting but at a convention. The pontiac silverdome where the detroit lions used to play football (american NFL football) is where we had our conventions...back in the 80s, no air conditioning, sun beating in through the dome, middle of summer...people could get irritated easily. Well im a young 8 year old in 1989 im sitting in my seat after lunch with about 35,000 other brothers and sisters. I decided to draw a picture, so i drew one, i set the paper down and got thirsty since it was humid inside...well i have a can of lemon lime shasta in one hand (the brand we got for conventions when we got food and drink back then) and my pen i drew the picture with...i got distracted looking at the dome of the stadium and started tapping the side of the can of lemon lime shasta with the point of my pen, then it happened...it went from quiet except for the speaker speaking, to my lemon lime shasta spraying everywhere all over and mainly on one sister in her "new" dress...i dropped the can trying to stop the leak but i was nervous...sisters were screaming! I was pulled by my ear up the stairs. I found a brother to get me some towels to give to the sister but by that time she needed water too as it dried and everything was sticky. Thankfully the liquid was clear but the sister and everyone else around me was pretty upset, not only from it being so humid in the middle of summer but because i got lemon lime about 3 rows behind and in front of me sticky. I ruined the talk for everyone around me and im still self conscious about drink cans

 

I embarassed myself and my 7 family members

[Michael]

A little boy sitting on his dad’s lap in-front of the laptop camera during his dad’s closing prayer on zoom after the WT study picking his nose and eating the boogers. 

[Gruder]

Wow, these are all hilarious! 

A few years back we had a very spiritual but very funny elder conducting the CBS and it was on the account of Elijah running faster than Ahabs chariot in the rain. Now after he finished getting comments on the par before moving to the next he said: Now picture this, Bro "So and So" with his 80yr old legs

(a very proper southern gentleman elder) glistening from the rain running faster than a horse drawn racing chariot! 

The entire KH busted out laughing including that dear brother!! 

The following meeting another savy elder did some doctoring on the publication picture showing that same brother driving his Tesla chasing after Bro So and So as he raced in his "Elijah body"! 

  Needless to say the following elders meetings were quite funny!!!

[Pabo]

When we had our congregation maintenance training day with the LDC. I was talking with one of the elders and the brother who was taking the lead from the LDC came up and questioned why were there was the foldable tables that were left in one of the rooms when they were in their during the week preparing.

 

Before the elder could answer him, I said "I put them there earlier in week because we were not sure you needed them during the week for their inspection and that we needed them this week for the refreshments table for the training day. As I in town that day I thought to drop them off to save me a trip later." 

That brother then said "OK" and walked away.

The elder beside me looked at me and said "They have been there since the last time we had a cuppa tea at the hall about 4 months ago. How can you say that you put them there last week?"

"Well, you know I am more organised than some and I knew that we were needing them later on, so I didn't take them home with me. Last week Brother So&so asked me if I could bring some tables, and I said they were already there in that room. Thus I was right of when I said I put them they last week?"

He just laughed.

Edited May 21, 2022 by Pabo

[Sheep]

Several years ago, a brother came back into the hall during the meeting with his little boy. On approaching their seat, the little boy excitedly and loudly proclaimed: "Mommy, I made poo-poo!"

 

Yes, I would have called that a 'head-turner.'

[ASV]

I just gave opening prayer with my fly unzipped. No one noticed or they haven’t said anyway. 

[Pabo]

On 5/25/2022 at 12:30 PM, ASV said:

I just gave opening prayer with my fly unzipped. No one noticed or they haven’t said anyway. 

An very old elder we had in our congregation did the same thing many years ago. However, his wife spoke out loud from her seat about his issue to him in their mother tongue (Italian), which no one knew what she said until he turned around with his back to the audience and then zipped up his fly and turned back around. He in his dry sense of wit then said, "I thought it was a bit chilly". We all just cracked up.

[Gruder]

On 5/24/2022 at 10:30 PM, ASV said:

I just gave opening prayer with my fly unzipped. No one noticed or they haven’t said anyway. 

Your not supposed to do something just to have something to relate here! 🤣🤣🤣

But still funny

[jps]

told by our co today;

 

a sister invited a women and her son to the weekend meeting

 

the son was instructed to sit still and quiet during the talk, and he did very well

 

after 10mins or so a sister at the front row had some problem with her fussy son and she had to literally drag him out 

 

the study's son asked his mom "what are they going to do with him?" while the sister and her screaming son went out of sight

 

"i dont know" she replied

 

10 seconds later a car outside the kh backfired and the son yelled "mom, they shot him!!!"

 

our co said the kid was very relieved when the sister came back in together with her son alive and happy

 

Edited May 29, 2022 by jps

[ASV]

This was pre covid when we had hand held mics. I raised my hand during the watchtower study to answer on the first paragraph. The conductor called on me and  Iam waiting and waiting for the mic then I get a whisper in my ear your on mics today it’s under your chair. 

[Esined]

A brother I grew up with brought a new study to the meeting. They sat near the front row. After they sang the last song, right in that moment of complete silence before the prayer, the study said, in a very loud voice, “That sure was a pretty song!” 
 

When my daughter was a baby, maybe one year old, the brother on the platform asked a question obviously geared towards little kids, something like “What is God’s name?” My daughter saw other kids raising their hands and wanted in, so she raised hers too. She was too little to actually be called on, but determined to be part of this answering thing she said “Obama!” really loud. (Barack Obama was president at the time.) People in front and behind us could hear. I was mortified 😂

 

Another time when she was around two, I was bringing her back from the bathroom. A little girl she was friends with saw us and turned around to wave. Right in the middle of the meeting she whispered very loudly across the aisle, “Hey! Did your mom take you to the bathroom? Did you poop?”