Chris came home from work a while ago, and I asked him if he’d go out to the store to pick up a few things for us. His first stop was to the corner store, and as soon as he came back he quickly closed the door and said “Hide, the Jehovah Witnesses are coming!”.
Now, we have nothing against Jehovah Witnesses but we don’t subscribe to their beliefs and have been caught in the past standing in our door way discussing the pro’s and con’s of such beliefs with them. Frankly we really don’t care to do that. They can leave their pamphlets at the door if they’d like and we will look at them, but in general we don’t like opening the door to people that appear to be selling things whether that be a product or a belief.
After Chris shut the door, he closed our living room curtains and turned out the lamp beside me. Yeah he really wasn’t interested in talking! Well, actually he was still going to go out to the store and I guess he was attempting to hide me.
So … Chris just went out to the store and I’m sitting in the dark, on the floor listening for that fateful knock on the door.
The Jehovah’s were on the other side of the street when Chris was busy closing the curtains and turning out lights. I’m not sure when they’ll get around to knocking on our door, but I have no doubt that they will. So here I sit, typing away on my laptop as I sit on the cool uncomfortable hardwood floor.
I’m going to give it 15 more minutes and then go back to life as normal. With any luck they might already think that no one is home since they probably saw Chris leave with the car.
Is this crazy or what? What lengths have you gone to in order to avoid something?
Wait…couldn’t you just not answer the door? Usually I just pretend I’m sleeping.
I have the solution – borrow my dad [you’re up for the air fare right?] Once installed my dad with ‘engage’ with the said chappy for as many hours as is necessariy to completely exhaust the young chappies. He is amiable, knowledgable and polite throughout the exchange and has the staying power of a terrier.
Best wishes
I know how you feel. I used to listen because I felt sorry for them. They are required by their congregations to go out and witness to non-believers. I didn’t want to be the one to deny them their key to the gateway of heaven.
I even studied with a Jehovah’s Witness for a while, she got major brownie points for that one. I almost went to the Kingdom Hall, but stopped short there. I do understand some of their premises for their beliefs–I just don’t subscribe to them. I guess it was my interest in sociology and theology that drove me to learn.
However, it seems they have become more aggressive in their tactics. So, the spouse put a “No Soliciting” sign on our brick in the front of the house. Now they just leave us a Watchtower magazine occassionally. So, there’s my suggestion….long winded as it is
I answer the door…LOL
Come on in, sit down, let’s discuss your version of the bible which is clearly missing passages that are found in the King James version, and every thing else.
See, the longer I keep them at my house, bugging them to death, the less time they have to be badgering other people. 😉
Half the ones I’ve spoken with don’t really have their heart into it. It’s like selling candy bars for school when you don’t want to.
I do the same thing.. lol. My sister is one of them and she used to send me stuff. I told her to stop.. Yeah, I’m horrible.
I haven’t had the chance yet to actually engage anyone from the Witnesses but I have found myself with a Watchtower every now and then. If nothing else, a few good articles are inside. I tend to travel too much to be actually caught at home 🙂
I know of someone who hid from a collector once though. He was in a tight bind during the time and he was getting tired of having to apologize and promise to pay back. He said he found it to be a humiliating experience since he never had to do it before. He would close the windows, turn of the lights and the stereo to give an appearance of no-one being in the house at the time. The waiting was the worse part, what with the silence and the knowledge that someone’s on the other side of the door knocking.
If anyone’s interested, I have a few more anecdotes myself in my website. I hope you take a look at it and like it. http://www.timferriss.com.
Cheers!
I turn the ringer off on my phone and just ignore it completely. It makes my family and friends furious. 🙂 They’ve gotte creative about coming to visit when I’m not expecting them and telling me that it’s my fault since I didn’t answer the phone. So, now I just ignore the door. That’ll teach them.
Yeah so, back in high school, I had a lot of Mormon friends, so all their Mormon mission buddies in our town would hit up my house, and then when I wouldn’t answer the door, or wouldn’t talk to them, they’d come back the next day and send one of my friends to the door and then they’d come up after I was already inviting my friend then. RUDE! I’m very much a people-pleaser too so I have a hard time getting them to leave. I’m much better at just cutting them off at the start.
Why don’t you invite them in and truy to sell them something?
hehe, I remember doing this. You poor thing, I hope your hubby comes back soon so you have someone to talk with. Hmmm, but I doubt they would be totally gone. They normally stick around long enough to catch those that just leave. I dont’ know how but it always happened with us.
I have a note that I keep taped by the front door that I quickly put on it when I see them coming that says “No solicitation calls accepted”… It works. Weird but it works. My mailman probably thinks I am whacky 🙂
I do the same thing (pretend that I am not home) 🙂
Too funny…and I thought it was just our family!
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It must be that time of year – I was in my garage when my little Jack Russell Terrier, Petey, started barking his head off. I came out to see what was going on and a pair of Witnesses standing on my front lawn. I try not to knock (no pun intended) anyone’s religion, but I just don’t get the door-to-door religious approach.