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April 18, 2008
Near Misses -- The JWs
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Oh, it's been a while ago now, but one Christmas eve I got a visit from a couple of Jehovah Witness ladies. They'd parked across the street in an area that wasn't really a parking lot but, you know, when you're doing God's work you can't be bothered with things like where to appropriately leave a car.
They toddled across the street and up to my front door which they gave a light rap. I knew who they were before I answered and had already formed two thoughts before I'd opened the door.
The second thought was, "I wonder if I give them $5.00 for one of their books if I'll be able to get them on their way any faster." I'd had Jehovah's take an aggressive approach in their presentation during prior encounters and really wasn't in the mood.
My first thought was, "If they'd only been five minutes earlier they could have caught me fornicating right in the living room and wouldn't that be a nice story to take back to the Kingdom Hall."
Oh… and $5.00 seems like the right amount to get them off your stoop.
A friend reports the following works as well, and I think I've blogged about it before: He had a mother/daughter team that refused to take "no thank you, I'm not interested" as an answer to their repeated attempts to engage him in conversation about his religious beliefs. He finally said, "I've told you 'no thank you' three times. Now, unless the two of you are interested in coming in for a three-way, I've got better things to do." As it happens, a three-way did not interest them. Though, that was likely a good story to take back to the Kingdom Hall.
[I'm not picking on the JW's. I don't want anybody stopping by my house to save me. I'm happy in my beliefs and will meet you in Heaven.]
Posted by delmer at April 18, 2008 12:39 AM