Dealing with door to door dogma dishers

[star-warrior]

I was on the phone with my sis this morning when the door bell chimed. I looked through the living room door into the hallway to see a fuzzy figure through the frosted stained glass of the front door. I wanted them to go, fearing the worst. "It's Jehovah's witnesses", I said to my sis in a hush over the phone. "Oh no!" she whispered back, but the figure at the door was still there some minutes later. "I'll have to answer it, just in case it's something important", I said and hung up.

On reaching the door, I could see it was a pair of fuzzy figures, one standing on the lower level beside the wooden ramp we have installed outside our house. "Ah, it's good we caught you in this morning", he said, as he eyed the ramp, "Let me get on this to be at the same level as you are", he continued. In his hands were two pamplets, one on the top had "Awake" across the top. "I want to talk to you about the issues of today in these Watch Tower magazines", he waxed patting his pamplets, as I stared into his mouth noticing the nicotine stained crooked teeth. His sidekick remains where he is without making a sound.
"Wait, is this about religion?" I asked, as if expecting something else.
"Yes!", the guy answered.
"Please go away.", I interjected, moving to closed the door, he craned his head forward and raised his finger, "You're not interested?", came his hopeful voice through the closing crack.
"No!", as the door clunked shut.

 

[Corny]

Well you are really polite. I usually play a bit games with them

 

[Corny]

^ Ignore their babbling, fixate a man from the group. When they pause their babbling ask if he is available and compliment him on how handsome he is.
If that doesn't scare them ask if he would join you in a threesome with your fuckbuddy.
Whatever they reply .. ask "Is that a no?" And the proceed "Then I am not interested in your boring religion"
They never visited me at my old flat again

 

[bankside]

corny i thought this door-to-door preaching nonsense was outlawed in germany?

the scientologists are banned are they not?

 

[Lukeee]

Does anyone actually listen to them?

 

[TriBi]

I usually just say "Thank you but I'm not interested" - and close the door in their face.

End of conversation.

 

[Horse90]

See, I love a good argument, so I always point out the flaws in their religion and leave them confused. My best time was when I was 16, managed to convince the lady (Sweet old biddy really) to take a kitten with her, while simultaneously making her doubt her religion. Twas fun.

 

[Jeimuzu]

They rang the doorbell early in the morning with me, to hand me a pamphlet. Now, I don't know about you fine folk, but my house, and every house on my street, and in my estate, and probably in my town, has a hole in the front where people push through flyers and such.

The path leads past my dad's office. I made sure they heard me shred their pathetic little scrap of paper.

 

[racer2438]

we tell them to read from our bible some verse's and hold out the bible to them and they will not touch it.

or we tell them to come to church and enter our church and they can not enter cus there are not suppose to go in any other church...but the idots want you to go to there church.

or it that does not do enough, i just shut the door in there face an d tell them to get off my property..


bunch of losers.

 

[gsdx]

My common response if they are JW is:

Me: "Oh, yes. My brother told me all about that."

JW (suddenly excited): "Oh! Is he JW as well?"

Me: "He used to be until he realised they were feeding him nothing but bullshit and he told them all to go to Hell."

And then I close the door.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Be glad it wasn't me at the door.

 

[RationalLunacy]

.........

 

[M4P]

I answer the door holding back my large barking dog with one finger around his collar. I find they don't argue with me when I say "no thanks"

 

[G-Lexington]

Look, folks, most of them aren't crazy about this gig, either. And rather than make it any more difficult for them, I work WITH them. I say "Look, I'm really short on time. If you want to give me a Watchtower, you can count that as first contact. And next week, if you want to give me an Awake, that'll count as a repeat visit."

They ALWAYS say "Sure, OK, thanks", give me the Watchtower, and leave. Fifteen seconds of my time, they get a tally, and we can continue on with our lives.

Lex

 

[Cactusjack47]

I try not to answer the door if at all possible (I have a peephole to see who's there). If I do get caught, I just tell them politely that I am an Episcopalian and have intention of changing, thank you! No games, no making fun of them.

 

[Shepherd 2]

SW,
As usual you are right on target. You did what I would do, be polite, and say no and close the door. They take is as a positive sign of what they believe and will keep on. You do not need what they are offering. Way to go.

Shep+

 

[rareboy]

Be kind to strangers for you may be entertaining angels unawares.

I have never found any reason to be rude or unpleasant to anyone who comes to my doorstep.

I don't understand why people think they should be.

 

[gsdx]

I don't understand why people think they should be.

As far as I'm concerned, it's door-to-door telemarketing. They are free to keep their religion, but that doesn't give them free rein to share it with me and try to get me to convert to it. To me, what they do is very-much like walking through a mall and having store clerks come out to me as I pass their store and try to drag me inside and sell me something I don't want.

 

[star-warrior]

The pair are touring our area, it seems. I saw them at my neighbour's opposite last Saturday. I live on a cul-de-sac, so if it's taken a week to get to my house, then I would not like them to get a foot in


Anyhow, I had my toddler to think about.

Were they handsome? One had a barcode combover and the other was a suitable contestant for a nibbling a biscuit through a tennis racket competition.

 

[GL]

i usually just tell them "thanks but no, not interested" and wish them a nice day.