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myeyesareopen
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There was one hilarious (at least, in my opinion) thing that transpired as we honored Todd & Jaclyn Weber and then Mrs. Schaap....I had been privately agonizing over what to do when the inevitable standing ovation arrived...
It really peeved me that in the morning service, when a senior saint was recognized for having taught SS faithfully for 65 years, we did not give her a standing ovation...yet I knew we'd be on our feet for the Webers and Mrs. Schaap...and I really did not want to but I also did not want to make myself an issue by blatantly not participating...
WELL, the standing o's are always initiated by one particularly brainwashed automaton who sits right on the front row. But, we honored these people AFTER the invitation, so Mr. Gung-Ho Standing O had lost his front row seat during the invitation and was now seated on our row off to the side. So, when he (right on cue) stood to give the Webers their standing o....no one followed suit! He was forced to sit down after being the only one standing. A few minutes later, exactly the same happened when he tried to initiate the standing o for CS.
Sorry, I took great glee in that.
It really peeved me that in the morning service, when a senior saint was recognized for having taught SS faithfully for 65 years, we did not give her a standing ovation...yet I knew we'd be on our feet for the Webers and Mrs. Schaap...and I really did not want to but I also did not want to make myself an issue by blatantly not participating...
WELL, the standing o's are always initiated by one particularly brainwashed automaton who sits right on the front row. But, we honored these people AFTER the invitation, so Mr. Gung-Ho Standing O had lost his front row seat during the invitation and was now seated on our row off to the side. So, when he (right on cue) stood to give the Webers their standing o....no one followed suit! He was forced to sit down after being the only one standing. A few minutes later, exactly the same happened when he tried to initiate the standing o for CS.
Sorry, I took great glee in that.