People need a passport to go down there!

[Mamadrae]

My husband and I went on a trip to Tennessee to visit some friends who are getting married soon this past weekend. Now my pals seriously live on the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. The roads are dirt, the house doesn't have a number, the street doesn't have a name, and the only restaurant open on a Sunday is McDonalds, which was added about a year ago so it's still considered new.

Now I was born and raised in southern Illinois right on the river for a good chunk of my life. Because of this I have a slight twang in my voice that becomes noticeable when I'm annoyed, excited, or when I start hanging around with other twanging people. So within a day I was talking like a local and actually understood them while my poor husband, who grew up in Chicago was struggling.

Anyways, me and my gal pal (GP) head to McDonalds for food on Sunday morning. We decide to go through the drive-thru thinking that there isn't anyone there with it being 9am on a Sunday. Most folks in the area are either still out cold from the heavy drinking last night or in church. GP is rather sleepy and I am never very good in the morning until I get food and caffiene (which we were getting) into my system.

We get to the drive-thru and there is this giant truck sitting there. I stop to wait my turn and 5 minutes go by. Now I'm curious as to what's going on cause while no one is rushing like crazy usually down here, 5 minute is pushing it unless they have a huge order for a fast food place.

I roll down my window and look out to hear the poor drive-thru worker trying desperately to get the attention of the lady in the truck, who is chattering away on a cell phone with the window rolled up on her truck. So not only is the speaker muffled due to the window, the woman is not paying attention at all.

I start pondering going and knocking on the window when a worker comes out and does exactly what I was thinking. I think the woman was more startled to look out the window and see this guy knocking then by the actual knock. She rolled down her window, letting out this storm cloud of cigarette smoke that I expected to see lightning in and starts ripping into the guy. By now I'm sure you all know what's going to come, specially since I can never keep my mouth shut.

SC: Stupid Cunt
W: Poor Worker
ME: Yours truly!
GP: Gal Pal

SC: (missed parts of the rant so giving general deal) How dare you come out and scare me for clogging up your drive-thru! I'm Pastor So and So's wife! God will send you to hell for this. I'm in the middle of an important call to save souls! You know your damned for working on a Sunday!
W: Ma'am I'm very sorry I was just...
SC: *goes on with more of the fire and brimstone rant*
ME: *out of patience after the 5 minute wait and now having endured a 3 minute rant about damnation* HEY! Would you kindly shut up and either order your food or pull to the side like a good christian so I can order some here?
SC: *glaring at me in my shiny 08 malibu* How dare you speak to me like that! I'm an upstanding member of the church!
ME: Yay for you! Now are you going to move or order?
SC: I'll have you thrown out of the community for this missy!
ME: That requires me to be from the community, or the state for that matter.
SC: *looks at my plates and realizes I'm not from the state* Yankee bitch! The lot of you up there are sinner who are going to burn!
ME: *fed up and pissy* Yeah yeah I'll make sure to give the devil a nice blow job from you when I get there. So what's your excuse for being a bitch? Part of the church of entitled whorism?
SC: *glares at the worker* Are you going to let her talk that way about me? I'm an upstanding member of the church!
CW: Uh...*obviously confused as to what she expects him to do*
SC: This is horrible customer service! I'm never coming to you people again! *drives off*
ME: *pulling up and looks at GP* Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the next place to get food on a Sunday a good hour drive away?
GP: Yep.
ME: *looking at worker who looks scared of me* Don't worry, she'll be back next time she doesn't want to cook. It's SUNDAY after all and HEAVEN forbid someone do ANYTHING on that day.

GP started laughing while the worker seemed to be trying not to as he went back in.
We did however, somehow get an extra hashbrown in our food.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'll never understand people (and I see stories of them on here from time to time) who chide others for working on *insert holy day here* when they are taking advantage of the fact that said people are working on *insert holy day again*. If people shouldn't work that day, you shouldn't be patronizing the business.

How exactly is she going to have someone thrown out of the community? *ponders*

[Mamadrae]

How exactly is she going to have someone thrown out of the community? *ponders*

I asked my pal about that actually cause it confused me as well. Apparently she knew the woman from her insane family, who are Jehovah Witnesses. More then likely the woman recognized my pal, who told the church to go screw and has been dubbed evil. As such no one is suppose to socialize with her. Her own family isn't coming to GP's wedding because of this and while she says she doesn't care, I certainly know better though.

Anyways, we're guessing she either A.) thought I was being a bad witness and hoping not to get caught or B.) was simply use to saying that and getting people to go "ZOMG! NOOOO! Let me bow to you holy one!"

Personally I think the woman was full of it in general cause I wanna say that Witnesses don't have pastors (at least not the title) but I didn't remember to ask GP about that. However GP did say that at least in rural Tennessee people have a habit of letting pastors and other religious figures get away with murder and this extends to their families. That a whole new terrifying batch of entitlement whores that I'm so glad I don't have to deal with on a daily basis.

[Becks]

I'll make sure to give the devil a nice blow job from you when I get there.

That's stolen permanently borrowed for my personal use.

[Bright_Star]

Some of the biggest hypocrites around are those who claim to go to church every Sunday & act all holier than thou. I stopped going to church years ago cause I got tired of the phony people thinking that just because they went to church that somehow that gave them a fresh slate to sin all week card.
You'd see people going into church on Sunday morning bitching about everything under the Sun & then when they came out it's like they didn't go at all! Actually they'd be more meaner afterwards. It's as if they didn't like being reminded that they were sinners & acted accordingly.

[iradney]

What sucks the most is, had that woman just said "Woops! Sorry, my bad " this whole situation would have been avoided. Alas, EWs come in all shapes, sizes, colours and flavours....

[PepperElf]

no slight against her religion.... but i am still amazed at how much hatred she was spewing out, claiming her faith and marriage as her license to do so.

i wonder if she acts that way in front of her husband... bullying other people around claiming that "i'm so-and-so's wife and have this standing, etc"

actually i'm reminded of something somewhat similar....

one of my relatives was in the military and they'd been having some trouble with the wives trying to bully other wives around, quoting their hubby's rank...

one day one of the high ranking officers came in to the wives' meeting and asked them to all stand up in a line, according to pay grade. After they lined up ... "I only have one thing to say to you. None of you hold any rank.". Then he left. (and from what I was told it worked too)

[wagegoth]

My parents become JWs when I was twelve. I left the religion when I was twenty-three. No, they don't have pastors. They have elders (usually more than one per congregation) and ministerial servants (kind of like deacons). They don't have churches. They have meeting halls. They are not allowed to smoke. They are not allowed to do drugs. They may drink alcohol in moderation.

I can tell you that if you want them to go away and not knock on your door for months or years, tell them you're disfellowshipped. It's the equivalent of excommunication. The regular JWs are not allowed to speak to you, only the elders may.

[otakuneko]

The whole "don't work on sunday" thing just doesn't work in modern society, period.

[Evil Queen]

*twangs too*

You and your hubs are like my boyfriend and I; I twang and he goes "bwa?"

I'm familiar with the EW's of The Church. Mom's Episcopalian, Dad's Lutheran, RW I think is still methodist and I was raised baptist-turned-atheist. Yeah, I'm going to rot in "hell".

[RetailWorkhorse]

I'm a Methodist?

I thought I was a Doggian.

[Evil Queen]

I'm suddenly reminded of this girl that was staying at the Broken Hotel with her Mom. I told her I lived in NEW Mexico the previous year and wanted to go back. Then she mentions a passport.

Me: You don't need a passport to go to New Mexico.
SY (for Stupid Yung'in): Yes ya do! It's a whole diff'ent country!
Me: NEW Mexico?
Mom:
SY: Yeah, New Mexico is part of Mexico!
ME: (after rebooting my brain) Sugar, New Mexico is part of the continental United States. Like Texas or Florida.
SY: No, you need a Passport to go to Florida too. I been there!
Mom: (drags off daughter who is still convinced you have to have a passport to go out of state)

Uh... right... whatever Stupid.

[smileyeagle1021]

I'm suddenly reminded of this girl that was staying at the Broken Hotel with her Mom. I told her I lived in NEW Mexico the previous year and wanted to go back. Then she mentions a passport.

Me: You don't need a passport to go to New Mexico.
SY (for Stupid Yung'in): Yes ya do! It's a whole diff'ent country!
Me: NEW Mexico?
Mom:
SY: Yeah, New Mexico is part of Mexico!
ME: (after rebooting my brain) Sugar, New Mexico is part of the continental United States. Like Texas or Florida.
SY: No, you need a Passport to go to Florida too. I been there!
Mom: (drags off daughter who is still convinced you have to have a passport to go out of state)

Uh... right... whatever Stupid.

well... the daughter might not have been far off... part of my mother's custody agreement between her and the evil mother in law after my father died (I think I may be the only person where there was a custody dispute between a parent and a grandparent after one parent died) was that I could not leave the state of Nevada, except for quarterly visits to my evil grandma in california, without notifying the state... yeah it was stupid, but my evil grandma was convinced that my father's death was my mother's fault and wanted to do everything in her power to punish her.

[wagegoth]

And JWs don't believe in the Sabbath, so there would be no reason to complain about it.

[wagegoth]

(I think I may be the only person where there was a custody dispute between a parent and a grandparent after one parent died)

I've worked in family law. No, you are not the only one, not by a long shot. There have been some high-profile cases where the grandparents of someone who murdered their spouse took physical custody before the murdered spouse's parents could. Now that's a nasty custody battle.