I have seen people do some really crazy things in order to fulfill their perfect attendance "requirements". There was one family that literally was NEVER gone for ANY reason whatsoever. They would not even take an out of town trip UNLESS it they could arrange it to where it would fall between Thursday and Saturday. These people were SO worried about it, they would not even entertain the idea of attending another church service at another cOC while out of town. "We must be back by Saturday night, because after all THIS is our church, not some other place!". The sad part about it was, they seemed like nice, normal folks, otherwise. They were (and still are) SO indoctrinated into that line of thinking. I even asked them one time what the harm was in just simply attending church some place else when they were on vacation, and they shook their head and said "oh, no, that's not scriptural". I even pointed out how we had visitors who were from out of town, visiting family and whatnot, so it would be the same situation when they went on vacation. They just wouldn't be present at their "home" church on that particular day. No dice. They said that that may "work for some people, but not us". There was no convincing them. They acted like they were under some sort of blood oath.
Shoot, I used get wrist slapped for going to church with my mother (another conservative cOC, by the way) to help her whenever she kept the grandchildren. And naturally, I'd be wasting my breath whenever I would explain it. "You DO understand, I'm not talking about some denomination, this is another cOC, JUST LIKE THIS ONE!". The reply would be "yeah, we know exactly where you are talking about, it's nothing against that cOC, per se, but that is NOT your church, THIS ONE IS!!". "They have over 120 members, we ain't got 40, WE NEED YOU, THEY DON'T". I wouldn't even try and go into the next part where I would attempt to explain that going there on that particular night was to help my mother out since she had the grandchildren and they could be a handful for one person to handle. So, even going to another cOC counted as a strike against you.
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Crazy.
"HE HAS GOTTEN PULLED AWAY!!"-The cOC's go-to answer whenever someone leaves.