Drummed out!

[Caran]

Have you ever been drummed out of anywhere/thing. I have, in the late 60's I was drummed out of the WI because I was divorced. We do not have people like that in our Institute.
A friend of ours was drummed out of the Brownies because she went the wrong way round the toadstool.
How about you?

[boxtops]

I remember being asked to resign from a job (in the days when they could do that) because I was taking too much sick leave.

[gness]

I was drummed out of the Catholic Church for having an ectopic pregnancy. As I hadn`t attended for twelve years the visit from the Parish Priest to tell me I had sinned and was no longer able to take the sacraments until I asked for forgiveness was a surprise and bothered me not at all.

[boxtops]

gness, that's awful - it's not as if you had any control over it!

[micmak]

I remember when I left my then wife, Most people bad mouthed me. They didn't know the truth, or even half of the truth. Two years later when I met my now wife we had to leave the area. We have now been married for 32 years.

[nungate]

Brownies. Refused to sing around the toadstool on my own - I was the only one from my six who was i attendence that night! Scarred for life ;}

[owdhamer]

a group of us used have drink most weekdays at tea time we would all buy a round the landlord tilled up and say ive had one on every round, this got on my nerves so one night when i was alone fred put my half on the bar i drunk it in one and said cheers fred ive had one, banned

[gness]

The priest said I did Box. Obviously I agreed to surgery [well I was dying and not going to disagree] and the C Church classes, or did then, that as agreeing to an abortion. The life of the baby over the mother I think.

[boxtops]

Just beyond belief, gness - I believe you, certainly, but neither of you would have survived without the surgery... dreadful and blinkered.

[gness]

Oh! Nearly forgot. Not quite drummed out of but banned from a dinner with that McGregor chap. The one with the bag on his head; Chairman of British Steel years ago. OH said he couldn`t trust me to keep my mouth shut. My views differed somewhat from McGregor`s. If I recall his name right.

[daffy654]

I got drummed out (constructive dismissal) of a bar job for being pregnant. The manager treated me so badly that I ended up walking out and telling him to stick his job up his f***ing Yabbie.

[gness]

Baby already dead box. My following and leaving OH and young son behind would have been crazy.

[douglas9401]

Ian McGregor? I also share your disillusioment with the church of Rome gness. Six weeks of chats with a priest and I was a fit and proper person to marry an R.C.
Somehow.

[micmak]

Gness. I too was in the catholic faith. They battered and bruised me. I am speaking of the nuns. To me they were very cruel. Why,I would love to know.

[Caran]

I only found out about my friend being drummed out of the brownies at her funeral, she did her own eulogy that another friend read out and it was in that. She made it so light hearted everyone was doubled up laughing. So I have dne my own eulogy for my funeral when or if I decide to go.

[cupid04]

I was got thrown out a Wimpy bar for being drunk! I also had to leave the
Brownies, but I don't remember why just general naughtiness!

[gness]

That`s the one Doug. Bad Man IMO. How on earth did you fill six weeks of chat with the priest. Glad it made you fit and proper though. The more I think of that the dafter it seems.

[boxtops]

gness - so sad, but that's what I meant - senseless for you to have died too, just for the want of life-saving surgery. The RC church has a lot to answer for.

[gness]

NUNS! Mikmac. Don`t get me started on nuns.
Carandrog. Good to have a humorous eulogy. I did OH`s and have been asked to prepare two more for friends. Have my own ready with updates, many more I hope. Would hate not to go out with some laughs after the life I have led.

[douglas9401]

He was actually a fairly decent guy gness, one of the newer breed but still had to follow the script.
The back story would make one of their saints squirm but in the end it all fell apart and no-one died over it.
Life's a lot simpler now. The latest MIL still has the first name Hail but we discuss and agree to differ. We're all stardust after all. :)

[Caran]

yes Gness I agree that was why I did mine. When it was my friends funeral I was amazed at the music that was played while we were all assembling in church I think it was a Walker Brothers one. Then this fantastic eulogy that touched on so much of her life with so much humour. This spurred me on to sort my funeral out. I'm definitley having a Queen one and my absolute favourite Albatross. My late husband and i played this nonstop on our old dansette until daughter (early teens) would scream can't you play something else!