CO asked my wife to wash his laundry...

Well this happened some 9 years ago, while we were very active and busy in the congregation....

(In my country - eastern europe - there are no laundromats and most people have their washers at home...)

The CO was single (age 45?) and after one of the meetings he came to my wife with a plastic bag full of laundry and asked my wife politely if she could wash it for him till the next meeting. He stressed brothers from Bethel told him to choose in every congragation one sister (in good standing of course) to do it for him, since he has no wife.

OK, we were young and zealous at that time, so we accepted the assignment as a priveledge from Jehovah and took the laundry home...

When we got home, what I feared came true .... the bag of laundry included underpants and socks...

Well we were humble and supportive, but I must admitt it felt kind a weird to me even at that time.... Today it sounds to me completely bizarre....

Is this normal in US or other countries?

What other wierd things you were asked to do for you CO, DO, PO?

Albert the laundry washer

Wash your new Coca Cola T shirt with them

I think today they wouldnt let us wash even their a$$. This was tiiiime ago. 

BTW is it a problem in your country for JW to wear a CocaCola Tshirt?

Albert

Okay I don't mind doing their washing but you do your own smalls - sis.  I will not wash anyones' smalls bar for my baby girls'.

Here in the U.S. ...

1) There are laundromats everywhere - only a sicko would impose on someone else asking them to do their laundry (well... that or a college kid asking their mom to do their laundry)

2) I have never heard of a 'single' CO here in the states. It just plain doesn't happen - as it is a requirement for them to be married - so they have better qualifications to 'lead' the flock.

Regards,

Jim TX

I remember that when Emshoff (sp?) visited as a single CO, he asked the sister in whose home he stayed to do his laundry although they had a washer and dryer in their house.  Why should a man dirty his hands with laundry, eh?  The husband ended up doing it not wanting to think of his wife washing this guy's underwear. 

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/116857/1/District-Overseer-put-out-to-pasture-with-no-242424-sad

Jim-TX

There ARE single CO's...matter-a-fact, before I was DF'd last yr, I met 1 who was in his late 30's (37/38) and he went on the platform and made it CLEAR that he was NOT looking for a wife and was NOT interested in meetng friends-of-friends. Everyone LAUGHED too...cuase numerous sisters would whisper about this 'single CO' coming to the area and how they were gonna try to snag him.

Yep, single COs do indeed exist. My last CO was a single man in his 40s. Great guy, very "out there" and fun.  I don't know if he had anyone wash his laundry for him, but all of the sisters doted on him like he was their quirky son/brother/grandson.

zoiks

When we got home, what I feared came true .... the bag of laundry included underpants and socks...

I would have been more suspicous if his underwear wasn't included...

Could he have been hiding something?  How does one remove lipstick stains from a pair of boxers?

I have never heard of a 'single' CO here in the states. It just plain doesn't happen - as it is a requirement for them to be married - so they have better qualifications to 'lead' the flock.

Actually, the last CO in the circuit I attended was single. But it is rare.

One of the best things you can do for a man is teach them how to do laundry. My older sisters taught me when I was about 12. Now, I won't let anyone else touch my laundry.

Wow, buddy if it was me I would have told the CO to go pound sand and get a real job.  Any husband who would not tell a CO or anyone else for that matter to speck off, needs to grow some short hairs.  

I have heard of CO's asking for people to pay for their dry cleaning, do some alterations, etc., but laundry is kinda personal. Why, on earth, do grown men want to live such dependent lives?

How in the world did he ever get through college? = oh, never mind...

So why was the CO bypassing the "scriptural" head of the family and going directly to the wife with such a request? My ex, who the elders considered to be a very "unsubmissive wife", would have told him straight that he should get my approval first.

W

Oh man...where I came from if he DID ask someone to blow his nose or wipe his butt SOMEONE WOULD and there would be a bitch slappin hair pullin knock down to see who DID!

Even though I never heard of anything this nervy, I am not surprised it happened.  I always heard the constant appeals for money to pay for the COs expenses and also appeals for people to give dinners.  But never this.  Personally, I would be ashamed to ask somebody to do this for me and I wash my own undies in the sink.  I would make it my business to ask around for a decent laundromat to do the big stuff. 

Maybe, just MAYBE I could accept the brother HIMSELF asking to use somebody's machine but he would do it himself.  I think it is rather personal to do laundry.  Besides, who the hell wants to see his dirty drawers?  Not me. 

Even the old Borgbot me would've been disturbed by such a request...

The current me would have told him to eff off.

Washing 'smalls', as LouBelle put it, is a no brainer. When I was on the road I carried a mesh bag and took it in the shower and washed my smalls inside with hotel shampoo. Rinse, wring, roll them  in a towel and hang on the curtain rod. Ready to wear the next AM. Made me feel at home even in a Hilton. Always had the ironing board set up too.