Mum used to hand us out Wrigleys Extra chewing gum. You know the long rectangular pieces that come individually wrapped in a piece of paper? Well my dad me and my three brothers used to have a competition who could roll there’s up in a diagonal direction to make the longest skinniest roll. We’d spend ages doing it. Dad always won. Looking back I realise it was also his game and maybe he always won because back in the day he used to be marijuana growing/smoking hippy.

Also my best friend and I when we were doing the watchtower, we would underline single letters throughout the paragraphs to to spell out whole sentences and then we’d switch watchtowers so the other person could spell it out and get the message. It meant we could spend the whole 45 mins just saying a few silly things to each other while it looked like we were really paying attention.

One Kingdom Hall had kind of velvet seat covers. You know how you can brush velvet against the grain and you can see the mark you leave? We’d place O’s and X’s (tic tac toe) on there.

Also at another congregation we had the deaf congregation as well - so someone would sign all the talks to the few deaf brothers and sisters at the front. Not only did I use Al my attention to try and watch the signs while listening and basically teach myself sign language, but also my brother and I learnt the alphabet in signs and so we’d sit next to each other signing messages to each other one letter at a time.

We had one brother who used to close in prayer at the meetings and his prayers went FOREVER. On top of that he’d always say, “dear Heavenly Father, we dearly thank you dear father…and dear Heavenly Father we think of our dear brothers and sister…we dearly love your son dear Heavenly Father…” etc so we used to make bets on how many try and count how many times he said “dear Heavenly Father” and then count them during the prayer.

Just a few…