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  • 11th Jul, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Watevah (snape)
The bell rings. I freak out, because my friend said she'd be here at *noon*, not at 10.30 and the house is still a mess.
"Good morning, we're just visiting your street. Can we talk to you about God's Kingdom?"

Er... god's what now?
Thankfully, I'd already had a bit of Red Bull Rodeo and was quick to answer "er no thank you!"
"Can we give you something to read then?"
Eak!
"Er... no thank you"

I'd always said that if Jehova's Witnesses or whatever kind of christian cult-members showed up at my doorstep I'd just say "no thank you, I'm a big atheist dyke". But the woman had brought a very young adolescent with her. A 13-year-old boy or dykie-looking-girl (it's hard to be sure), and the kid looked so utterly miserable that I couldn't bring myself to say it.

Ah well, who knows... if they ever ring again I might get another chance.
Though I've always heard they put you on a "list" if you're rude to them and then skip your house from then on (Likewise, if you accept a leaflet, they also put you on a list to visit you again). Any ideas on if this is true or not?

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[info]omarandjohnny wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 09:34 (UTC)
I dunno about the list thing, but the last time we had Witnesses visit the house, I was smiling and pleasant and all that jazz. Of course, I was wearing a short-sleeved short, and made sure to lean out with my inked arm as much as possible. I think the 'LEXICON DEVIL' tattoo might be the reason we've been Jehovah free for a whole year now XDD
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[info]indybaggins wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 09:39 (UTC)
I've been visited by them once. I let them in and talked to them and accepted a leaflet. That's a year and a half ago and they never came back. *laughs* They must have assumed I was a lost case regardless. ;)
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[info]jamaisneutral wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 11:23 (UTC)
*g*
Who knows what they wrote down about you in their list?
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[info]jawnbc wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 13:45 (UTC)
If that kid is queer you might've saved their life by saying "we're cat people and lesbians".
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[info]jamaisneutral wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 13:56 (UTC)
Oh damn.... if only.
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[info]krazycat wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 16:50 (UTC)
I took a leaflet once, and the same dudes came back!
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[info]madscot wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 18:40 (UTC)
I have a Muslim friend who once invited them in, listened politely to what they had to say, and then asked them to show him the same courtesy whilst he tried to convert them to Islam. They never came back....

No one can find our flat, so we don't get them at our door, so not sure how their lists work.
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[info]undergroundsea wrote:
11th Jul, 2008 22:58 (UTC)
It's the same the world over, except the ones that visit me bring old women so that you cannot be unkind to them. The last ones who passed must not have found us at home and left the most outrageous book in our letterbox talking all about the end of the world and Satan. It was freaking scary, and clearly produced in America because it had the statue of liberty being menaced by some evil force :) I hate them! They're crafty and tell you lies! They even said my garden was pretty when I was ambushed in it once... and back then it was a dustbowl full of weeds!
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