Uhm...okay.

[Nick]

I work at Wal-Mart, and I work a lot, being only 17 and I want lots of cash.

I work almost 34hrs a week (most they will give me -- big deal right :lol: )

In a busy store and all, I really do pay attention to my customers, most of the time it is for my own sanity, than anything. Well, I get a lot of regulars, whom prefer my line because I'm "friendly, nice and fast." Anyways, I always get this 1 dude once a week, so comes up and says "How ya doing today, Nick?" I'm like "Great and yourself." We don't exchange words throughout the order because he is too busy writing things down. It always happens -- When I start loading his cart and he writes the check, he asks me if I like to read. I say, kinda...mostly during school though. He asks me if I like to read the bible? I'm like "No...not really."
As he starts to leave, he always sets down this short-story type book, and 3 pamphlets.

I AM LUTHERAN not wtfever kind of new neo-catholic crap you are telling me. (No offense to Catholics or any religions out there, I am fine with my current...trust me, it is some type of reformed cathlic religion...not the original)

Arg...don't you hate it when customers give you stuff? Like those stupid little pamphlets?

[Rine]

I live in the Bible belt, so I am very used to this. (My county holds record for # of churches per square mile in the world, supposedly.) People tend to leave behind a lot of pamphlets behind and talk with me. I politely thank them for talking with me and for the pamphlets , but the pamphlets usually end up in the trash or in one of the cash wrap drawers. (We are building quite a collection of the stuff too!) Sometimes, I have to ask customers to stop talking with me about religion because lines tend to form. I think the longest I was stuck talking with a customer about religion was ten minutes and I couldn't tell him to go because I had no customers. Ugh, it was awful.

Being Catholic, I am not interested in what the pamphlets say since most of the people down here are Protestant and decidedly anti-Catholic. (Not all of them, but the lot of them, I've come to realize.)

The way I see it, most of these people mean no harm so I *try* to politely listen to what they have to say, thank them, and send them on their way. It irritates me, but oh well. It's just the way people are down here.

[Nick]

The way I see it, most of these people mean no harm so I *try* to politely listen to what they have to say, thank them, and send them on their way. It irritates me, but oh well. It's just the way people are down here.
I am not the only person!! :runaway:

I have the upmost respect for all religions, beleifs, etc. but when they take it too far, as to bother me while I am working, just annoys me. I don't go into their place of business and ask if they would like a gift receipt with that?

One time a lady asked me what religion I was I politley told her "Lutheran" and she goes "What a shame."

*EDIT- Excessive quoting. Please edit non-relevant material when quoting.
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=1386

[Rine]

One time a lady asked me what religion I was I politley told her "Lutheran" and she goes "What a shame."

:lol: Yes, when people ask me that, I proudly say, "Catholic." Good god, I love watching some people's reactions to that. They look at me like I'm satan's spawn and I find it decidedly amusing. Doesn't take much for me, see?

I've had to deal with a lot of bashing because of my religion, both in school and now at my job. It's become easier for me if I find humor in it, you know?

[Kusanagi]

Oh man, aren't people that push themselves like that wonderful? I'm religious myself but that doesn't mean you take everything so serious as to stop people when they work.

I had one woman when I worked retail a few years ago that would come in twice a week and if I was a register, she bugged me. She was going on and passed me enough literature on the Mormon church to make a few trees. I politely asked her to stop as I wasn't a mormon and she never did. She gave me literature about twice a month and I politely declined it, but she just left it on the register on her way out.

I asked a manager who was a buddy of mine what to do about it, as I was scared to get REAL management involved. I was just a cashier and we had a really high turnover rate, and a trained monkey could do my job. If I complained about it more vehemently to the woman, she might claim I was "persecuting" her - she loved to claim how people persecuted her about her religion - to the cashiers in line, no less. So I came up with an idea.

I had a gothic friend of mine that had some rather interesting jewelry. She had a pentagram ring that fit my finger that I borrowed - I had always worn a ring there and one day at work I wore the pentagram ring backwards, with the pentagram in my palm. She passed me the same pamplet she did before and I said "No thanks" with a little smile. I held up my hand so she could see it, and I swear she turned six shades of white when she noticed what it was. She took her purchases, got her change without another word, and when she opened her purse to put her billfold in there - I saw no less than a dozen of the same pamplets she had handed me a few times a month for nearly four.

I didn't get away scott free with it though. She went to a manager and complained that they had hired a Satanist. The manager was the friend I talked to about it, as we had five or six and he was the only cool one about it (he was the one I could speak openly with without him worrying about tattling on what I said or how I acted). My manager basically said "Well, we're an equal opportunity employer, and if he's a Satanist, that's his choice."

"HE WAS WEARING A PENTAGRAM!"

"We have a few employees here that wear crosses and Stars of David. We can't legally tell them not to wear them because they are symbols of their religions. If he wants to wear a pentagram, it's his choice. Just like it's your choice to come in here and hand out religious literature a few times a month."

She got the hint and I never saw her again at my register. I never wore the pentagram again (I made my point) but every time I did see her I gave a big smile and waved.

I left the job two months later for a much better one. As far as wearing a pentagram for a day and for some laughs? I figure God has to have a good sense of humor :-)

[Canarr]

:lol: Yes, when people ask me that, I proudly say, "Catholic." Good god, I love watching some people's reactions to that. They look at me like I'm satan's spawn and I find it decidedly amusing. Doesn't take much for me, see?


Good lord... and I thought that Simpsons episode about doing an intervention when Bart was involved in a Catholic school was over the top... :roll:

Gotta admit... I don't get it. In Germany, being Protestant or Catholic is hardly a big deal - there's not that much difference, anyway (IMO; not looking to start something here). I'm curious: what exactly is the problem people in your area have with Catholics, Rine?

[icia]

i just love throwing the "i'm non-denominational" at them with a big grin

[Legal Eagle]

over here in England (note i didn't say UK) various christian denominations get along very well and regularly share events and services.

[Barefootgirl]

That would be an ecumenical matter..

*stops doing very bad Father Ted impression*

The church I attend is part of the Local Ecumenical Project, which involves the Anglicans, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Evangelicals and the Catholics (sometimes) doing things like services and preaching rotas together. The Methodists and the Anglicans shared the Anglican church building for over ten years, since the Methodists did not have their own church, and it worked fine. We've left now, we found some more Methodists to play with so we've left the Anglicans to it :)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I find telling them I'm Episcopalean just sort of makes their eyes roll back in their heads. I guess they figure there's not hope for me.

[chantal]

I always like to say that I'm the last practicing Druid :roll: It really freaks 'em out. I just have such a problem with strangers asking me that! I'm fine where I am, I don't need to be converted. Of course, sometimes I'll throw in different religions just for fun. I've been Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jesuit, Obeah and Vodou. However, I've found that Druid produces the most negative reaction. Strange eh?

[MacPrince]

My opinion on these drive-by preachers is this:
If I wanted your religion, I'd ask for it.

On the matter of the pamphlets, I defer to one of the great minds:

"Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it's kinda like they're saying, "Here, YOU throw this away." --Mitch Hedberg

[Becks]

I've been stalked by Jehovah's Witnesses on my way to work before. THAT always started my work day off right. :p

[Knightmare]

over here in England (note i didn't say UK) various christian denominations get along very well and regularly share events and services.

Wouldn't that be wonderful? If all denominations got along? *sigh*

Personally, I don't belong to any organized religion. I like my religion disorganized. I don't go to a church. The world is my church. I don't have to be in a building to be with God.

When I get these people that have to shove their religion in my face, and they ask "What religion are you?" I reply by saying I am either Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, or whatever else comes to mind. Then they ask "Don't you believe in God?" Most definitely I do. I just don't discuss my beliefs at work.

[LostMyMind]

over here in England (note i didn't say UK) various christian denominations get along very well and regularly share events and services.
:lol: That not that unusual. We got those even in the Bible belt.

A preface: I'm a Christian. Think fundamentalist gone bad. I have a strong distaste for folks who push "custom/tradition" as scripture, regardless of specific religious type.

But my favorite thing that happen to me was (I was a older teen at the time). JWs came often to my street. Since my family are fundamentalist, it really was a bad choice by the JWs. But give them credit, they kept trying.

One day I was out in the street teaching their "trainee", the finer points of Biblical debate. (Basically asking them questions they couldn't answer because they weren't told about those finer points :lol:).

Well, I have to interrupt this story. See at the time we had several squirrels living in our trees. My parents came back from a trip to GA and brought back too many pecans. Well, one squirrel really loves pecans. Soo much that he'll even run up to you and sit on your hands to get some. (even eat it while sitting in your hands.)

Well, back to the story. While in the middle of the debate, I saw out of the corner of my eye. :devil: OOOOOhhhhh that squirrel must have sense something was wrong because it made a dash like you wouldn't believe up the back of this JW's leg. She was making some new dance moves. Of course I busted out laughing. Every JW on the street came running to see what was going on. After a bit, I told them it's just a squirrel. He's tamed, he likes to run up on people.

Long story short, we had a very nice long break from JWs that year. :lol:

[Rapscallion]

After a bit, I told them it's just a squirrel. He's tamed, he likes to run up on people.


Better: "It's not just a squirrel - it's my familiar!"

Rapscallion

[Barefootgirl]

After a bit, I told them it's just a squirrel. He's tamed, he likes to run up on people.


It would have been even funnier if you'd pretended to freak out and screamed, "OMG, a possessed squirrel !"

[Bella_Vixen]

I had a pamphlet pusher come in one Sunday morning and actually PRAY for me. :wtf:

What amazes me is when I tell them that I am a non-practicing Catholic, they mostly leave me alone. I don't know whether to feel offended or not. :lol:

[AmericanZero8503]

I tell people that I'm jewish, that usually gets them off my back. Because not to many hicks around here have met a jew. I'm not really jewish but it shuts them up.

One lady (she was mental I think) told me I'd burn in hell for my people killing the lord. I told her I can't burn in a place that I don't believe in.

Another lady jumped my shit about saying Happy Holidays (god, I LOVE living a red state). I told her that I can't think about Christmas when I have to work through Hanukkah. She got red faced and walked off.

[AmericanZero8503]

On another note:

"over here in England (note i didn't say UK) various christian denominations get along very well and regularly share events and services."- Legal Eagle

Wow, once again if I could get a good job in England I'd be there. Isn't sad that in some parts of the US, people of different races still attend seperate services? Or that in some sects women aren't allowed to preach? Or that gay people are not allowed to worship because they're banned by the church?

It really is a shame, what do they think the higher power would have to say about that?

[Rapscallion]

I think over here is more a case of dwindling audiences of the once-major faiths. The christian denominations aren't nearly as major a force as they used to be or they are in the US.

Anyone got any figures?

Rapscallion

[Imogene]

I live in the Bible belt, so I am very used to this. (My county holds record for # of churches per square mile in the world, supposedly.)
Are you in Texas? I swear, when I went down to visit my dad and a few friends in Texas, and we went driving around, there was a church on every street corner, at least.

Okay, on topic, this did NOT hapen to me, nor was I there to witness this.

This story involves yet another Chesterfield coworker I've never introduced. I'll call her Starbucks, as that's where she works now that our store is closed.

Starbucks is a very kind, somewhat talkative girl, a lot short, heightwise, but she makes up for it in spunk. Anyway, one fine Christmas season (more than likely, the one just last year) Starbucks is working register, helping customers. Some guy, at random, walked right up to her, entirely bypassing the line, to give her a candy cane attached to a miniature Bible. And leaves, if I remember the story correctly. Starbucks looks at the Bible a moment, peels away the tape holding the candy cane to it, sets the Bible atop our soda fridge, and crunches on the candy.

A week later, I finally run into a coworjer who was there with her when it happened, as I'd been asking everyone I worked with about the Bible atop the fridge, and no one knows why. Kick ass AM tells me the story, and I just started rolling.

[Rine]

Are you in Texas? I swear, when I went down to visit my dad and a few friends in Texas, and we went driving around, there was a church on every street corner, at least.


:lol: Nope, I live in NW Florida. Church on every corner, churches right next door to each other, churches in backyards, in homes...churches, churches, churches. It's like a competition here, to see who can build the biggest and most expensive church. But the number of churches went down due to hurricanes blowing them away. :(

[Seanette]

:lol: Yes, when people ask me that, I proudly say, "Catholic." Good god, I love watching some people's reactions to that. They look at me like I'm satan's spawn and I find it decidedly amusing. Doesn't take much for me, see?

I've had to deal with a lot of bashing because of my religion, both in school and now at my job. It's become easier for me if I find humor in it, you know?
Believe me, I can relate, being LDS :D .

[BrassCowboy]

In my part of Texas, the law states that you cant have a strip club or similar establishment within xxx amount of feet of a church. I guess the powers that be decided to build one on every block in order to get rid of that 'evil.'

Back on topic, I am Jewish and I have a mezuzah nailed to the front door. Now, if I was not happy with my religion, why would that be there? Exactly. Now back away before I release the hounds.

[Rine]

In my part of Texas, the law states that you cant have a strip club or similar establishment within xxx amount of feet of a church. I guess the powers that be decided to build one on every block in order to get rid of that 'evil.'


Similiar laws here. My county just went "wet" and began to allow alcohol sales for the first time since the 1910's. The law is that you can't have a place selling alcohol (like bars, package lounges, and private clubs) within 2500 feet from a school or church. :lol: So, it's like we are still dry because hardly anyone can find a place to build a bar that fits the law's requirements.

On topic, there's a lady that I've had to talk to twice before at work. She's really really strange. The first time, she told me that she had her throat cancer healed by one of those Christian healer type guys that hit people with bibles and say "be healed!" I think we talked for about five minutes, but it was really just me listening to her claim about her various healings and then she made me write down the radio station that the healer uses and insists that I listen.

A few months pass and then I see her again. She clearly doesn't remember me, because she launches into another one of those crazy healing stories. This time, it was her stomach cancer that was healed, along with ulcers healed. I give her my "I don't believe a darn word you are sayin'" look and she quickly backs off and leaves me be. Geez, what a strange customer.

[Yossarian]

My husband is athiest, but he claimed himself to be Jewish for nearly two years. He was also working in a bank, and realized that a fair number of his co-workers were making really anti-Semitic statements.

Now, several of our close friends are Jewish, so this was bothering him a lot. He could have just said "Hey, my friends are Jewish, so I don't appreiciate that", but no, my boy likes making a strong statement:D So one day when they said something (about how the Jews have all the money), he turned to them and said "You guys know I'm Jewish, right?" That pretty much shut them up for the rest of his time working there, and it was surprisingly effective against the Christians coming in to hand out pamphlets.

Well, finally we moved and he got another job banking. He was going to drop the charade, when within the first week: "Goddam Jews are so stingy".:mad:

So, once again, "You guys know...":D

The best part was when he told the woman from Pakistan about his Hindu wife...

[Broomjockey]

I always like to say that I'm the last practicing Druid :roll: It really freaks 'em out. I just have such a problem with strangers asking me that! I'm fine where I am, I don't need to be converted. Of course, sometimes I'll throw in different religions just for fun. I've been Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jesuit, Obeah and Vodou. However, I've found that Druid produces the most negative reaction. Strange eh?

I AM a druid (and I happen to like dragons. Unrelated notes, but important to the story, and not only was my mother completely unbelieving when I told her I had changed from the Anglican I had been raised as, she told me later she had told a Sister of something about it, and then related a comment from said Sister that left me gaping as it demonstrated a level of religious ignorance and bias I didn't expect to find in one actually devoted to her religion for the religion's sake. "Is that why he has all those dragon statues? I hope he knows those won't save his soul."
When my mom told me about that I was livid. I literally wanted to go find this woman and have a nice (re: angry) educational talk about respect for differing religions.

[Jester]

Regarding religious intolerance, the great comedian George Carlin had a great riff on how religions and religious intolerance have been the cause of the vast majority of wars and atrocities in the history of mankind. He then illustrated his point with the following "dialogue."

(Since I can't exactly do George justice, for the following few lines, imagine George is talking to someone else. In the original, he does both voices, but that is hard to do here. Also, when appropriate, making a heck of an impression of the sound of a gun firing....cause I can't really do that here either!)

GC: "Do you believe in God?"
OP: "No."
GC: BOOM!

[pause]

GC: "Do you believe in God?"
OP: "Yes."
GC: "Do you believe in MY God?"
OP: "No."
GC: BOOM!

George Carlin rocks! :worship:

[Candlelightview]

My usual response is "I already have a church, thanks." If that doesn't warrant them off, I go off about religious abuse and how it's so hard being pagan and no one can respect that I have a religion too. Gotten quite a few complaints :P

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I find that works as well (I have a church I am happy with, thanks.). We used to get a lot of them coming in at Kinko's who wanted to try and preach to us. We can only humor them so much when we are busy.

I had this one customer I like to call the angel lady. She we very religious and very nuts. She came in with a pack of pictures (this is back before digital...my first stint at K) she wanted color copies of becaue they showed evidence that angels were all around.

These pics were of a barbeque picnic at a lake. She just had to share the miracle of what the film had picked up with me...these angels that were invisible to the eye, but the film had captured.

What she was pointing out to me was lens flare, dust flecks, and scratches on the film. Basically, she was a lousy photographer and she took her film to a sloppy lab. In one case, she was totally excited about an angel (large dust fleck) landing on a portly middle aged woman's nose as she shoveled a forkfull of barbeque into her mouth.

Did I say anything? Heck, no. Far be it from me to spit in anyone's cheerios. The woman was nuts, but happy. Oh, well.:rolleyes:

[Dreamstalker]

Kinkoid, did she try to submit them to the Weekly World News or the Enquirer (or one of the other tabloids with stories like "Alien Weds Elvis Clone!")?

Are you in Texas? I swear, when I went down to visit my dad and a few friends in Texas, and we went driving around, there was a church on every street corner, at least.
A street in Jordan's neighborhood (also in TX; interesting place to visit, but I cannot relocate myself there as there are no jobs in my field), while zoned as residential, was turned into an actual parking lot by a church on the corner of said street (actually, two churches...yes there are two separated only by a parking lot). Which means that on Sundays, if he wants to go out somewhere he cannot (or needs to go way out of his way).

As to how the church managed to do that...I still do not know.
"Is that why he has all those dragon statues? I hope he knows those won't save his soul."

That sounds like what my grandmother said when she found out (don't ask how, as I sure as hell never told her) that I'm Wiccan. She thought wolves are "ugly" and the devil incarnate (don't even think of saying that to a werewolf) :mad: My mom didn't care what religion I wound up as as long as it didn't involve living sacrifices ;) and I was happy with it.

[varmintjane]

On another note:

"over here in England (note i didn't say UK) various christian denominations get along very well and regularly share events and services."- Legal Eagle

Wow, once again if I could get a good job in England I'd be there. Isn't sad that in some parts of the US, people of different races still attend seperate services? Or that in some sects women aren't allowed to preach? Or that gay people are not allowed to worship because they're banned by the church?

It really is a shame, what do they think the higher power would have to say about that?

I'm originally from GA, and there were several Churches of Christ in my hometown. One was mostly white, one mostly black and one was more evenly mixed. It had a lot to do with the fact that the "black church" was closer to the east/south side of town which was predominantly a black/low income area and the "white church" was kind on the more affluent side of town. I think economic status/ location was more the reason in my situation than racial politics. They actually had services where one church would visit another for a Sunday to kind of "integrate".

[Dog Welder]

I live in the Bible belt, so I am very used to this. (My county holds record for # of churches per square mile in the world, supposedly.) .

Gadsden, Alabama by any chance?

Danggit, answered (need to read the thread more). Gadsden has the highest number of churches per people. Never mind.

[Dawnchaser]

"Is that why he has all those dragon statues? I hope he knows those won't save his soul."
When my mom told me about that I was livid. I literally wanted to go find this woman and have a nice (re: angry) educational talk about respect for differing religions.

Lameness...

I ran into a small group that calls themselves the Local Church. They are Christians, though definitely on the fringe in my opinion. Nice people for the most part. I found them interesting and so spent some time hanging with them. (I was Protestant at the time - Catholic now.)

At one point one of my friends decided to take me aside and explain to me that I was "opening demonic gateways" by wearing shirts with dragons and that I needed to get rid of anything with dragons because it's Satanic...same deal with my roleplaying stuff and pretty much all music that wasn't theirs, as far as I could tell. (That included any kind of Christian Contemporary, rock of course was totally banned.)

That was it for me. It's different from your situation as they were trying to save a fellow Christian from her wayward ways, I suppose. I might be unpleasantly surprised some day, but I really don't think dragon shirts are going to send me to Hell.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

My paternal grandmother once threw a fit on Christmas Eve, before we sat down for a service in this old adobe church near where she lives in Tuscon.

Why?

Because I was wearing a silver dragon pendant with a black onyx that my best friend had given me. She called it a symbol of the devil. She doesn't even KNOW I'm agnostic. :rolleyes:

[Mixed Bag]

I've found that Druid produces the most negative reaction.

Maybe they think you must have had more reverence for their pamphlets when they were alive in the wood. :eek:

[Tria]

She thought wolves are "ugly" and the devil incarnate


Oh.... Um.... Maybe she should see an eye doctor. Wolves are beautiful creatures.....

[SongsOfDragons]

I once told a particularly irritating member of the GodSquad "If heaven's filled with people like you, I'd rather go to hell!!" (This was on the street, not when I was working.)

Otherwise my philosophy is basically I-can't-be-@rsed-with-religion, though I'm perfectly happy to listen to some religious guy present their take on things or tell a story. As long as they're not trying a conversion this works with most ppl I've been in contact with - a while back I was listening to a young Muslim man tell a story; he only asked me when he'd finished what religion I was, and I told him none but thanked him for telling a lovely story. Well, you should have seen the smile on his face.

[trunks2k]

Oh.... Um.... Maybe she should see an eye doctor. Wolves are beautiful creatures.....

Only the grey wolf. Other wolves are kinda ugly.

[Canarr]

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

The rest of the party lies in the stomach of the Beholder. :lol:

[dragonflygrrl]

Ok, so I live in Kansas. We have more than our fair share of sick, twisted religious zealots here, as anyone that watches CNN will likely know. Basically, if you see a picture of some idiot with a really hateful sign protesting a funeral or memorial service, odds are that idiot is from Kansas. I hate them with a passion, but some of them are my customers. While I'm at work, I try really, really hard to keep a gracious, transcendant attitude, but if I'm off the clock the gloves come off. One day I had a guy in my store trying to give me a pamphlet about how AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. I was as polite as was humanly possible, and told him that his pamphlet would be better used elsewhere. He finally left, and I went about my day. That evening, my fiance and I went walking down the "main drag" and there were some ***holes with signs about how "God hates [derogatory name for homosexual men that I refuse to use]." I walked up to the closest one and told him that he was a hateful, ignorant, inbred moron, and that I hoped the Goddess would have mercy on him because if he didn't shut the **** up, I sure as hell wouldn't. And so forth and so on. He stared at me in amazement, and then said, "You can't talk to me like that! I'm your customer!" Sure enough, he was the guy from that afternoon. He never came back to the store...not sure why. LOL

[Rapscallion]

Let's not get a religious debate going. There are many posters here with relgiious convictions, and there are many with none. Let's not start a fight.

Usual rules - if it happens at work, fine - if not then let's leave it off here, please.

Rapscallion

[dragonflygrrl]

If that's directed at me, sorry. I'm not trying to start a debate either, just recounting an episode with a customer. It just happened that the story started at work and ended elsewhere.

[Rapscallion]

It's aimed at everyone. The problem is that there are contentious issues around, and though I love a good debate as much as (if not more than) anyone, it does lead to ill feeling.

We're here to vent about sucky customers, not religious people/politicians/dancing cheese etc.

Rapscallion

[dragonflygrrl]

But dancing cheese really grinds my gears! You mean I have to find another website to vent about that?! LOL

[Spiffy McMoron]

But dancing cheese really grinds my gears! You mean I have to find another website to vent about that?! LOL

Well, we used to allow a debate on dancing cheese, but then sides squared off, with cheddar on one side, and Havarti on the other. It was quite the battle, especially when Parmasan came in on the right flank... :lol:

All joking aside, you guys and gals know how often we have to shut down threads due to religion. It leaves nobody satisfied, and results in hurt feelings and bitter resentment. Since we get enough of that at our respective places of employment, we really don't need it here.

[XCashier]

...a fair number of his co-workers were making really anti-Semitic statements.

Now, several of our close friends are Jewish, so this was bothering him a lot.
A few years ago, my husband and I went to meet a numismatist acquaintance of his. Now, this guy, J, is a jerk -- bigoted, misogynist, and more arrogant than anyone has a right to be.

During our visit, J starts railing about Jews. Jew-this, Jew-that, they're responsible for every evil thing in the world, including the stuff that hasn't happened yet, the usual ignorant BS. :pissed:

I was getting really angry and was about to hit him. I think hubby sensed this, because the moment J. paused for a breath, hubby said, "J, you do know that my stepmom and stepsister are Jewish, don't you?"

That shut J up, thankfully. The stupid ass.

[friendofjimmyk]

Arg...don't you hate it when customers give you stuff? Like those stupid little pamphlets?

When I waited tables, I would get these in place of a tip sometimes. :pissed:


*EDIT - Excessive quoting. Please edit non-relevant material when quoting. http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=1386

[friendofjimmyk]

I didn't get away scott free with it though. She went to a manager and complained that they had hired a Satanist. The manager was the friend I talked to about it, as we had five or six and he was the only cool one about it (he was the one I could speak openly with without him worrying about tattling on what I said or how I acted). My manager basically said "Well, we're an equal opportunity employer, and if he's a Satanist, that's his choice."

"HE WAS WEARING A PENTAGRAM!"


PRICELESS!!!! AWESOME!!!!:lol:

[friendofjimmyk]

My opinion on these drive-by preachers is this:
If I wanted your religion, I'd ask for it.

On the matter of the pamphlets, I defer to one of the great minds:

"Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it's kinda like they're saying, "Here, YOU throw this away." --Mitch Hedberg


R.I.P. Mitch :cry:

[air914]

I think it's really sad how the basic message of Christianity has been so misconstrued (sp?) and taken so way out of context in order to push people's own opinions about things for some kind of political gain.... the message of Christianity was love..........

As far as people handing out pamphlets or coming up to you at work - their intentions are usually good - they just don't know how to go about telling you about God in a good way - or they are too scared and so they just hadn you a pamphlet. ALthough handing you a pamphlet can be better than standing there and talking your ear off for 10 minutes....

About the anti-gay signs, I am also COMPLETELY against those.... I always wonder when people decide to "share their religion" in this way what their point is? Do you THINK someone will accept Christ and give up the way they are living b/c you tell them God hates them and they are going to burn in hell??? Um - no - first of all, I wouldn't believe in a God that hates and I wouldn't worship one that hates... again, totally taken out of context and people try to use God and "religion" as a mask for their own personal opinions or beliefs.... and it's wrong and gives people the wrong impresion of what Christianity is...

Okay last thing b/c this topic may be closed soon ... I am non-denominational. I like to say that "we follow the Bible" we don't have any man made rules, we don't have a Pope or bishops, etc. that tell us what to do, and we just try to live life abundantly and with love. (No offense to Catholics out there - I just don't understand some of the stuff Catholics do - esp. b/c we don't have it in my church... but anyway).

Oh wait one more thing - hope this isn't too long - we used to have JW come to our house on Sat. mornings around 7 - 8:00am - first of all, if you want me to listen to you about your beliefs - don't come on a weekend - the one day I DON'T have to get up early - and don't come soooo early in the morning! Come in the afternoon or something..... and not right before dinner either... I just don't like the whole door to door thing anyway...

[Mixed Bag]

my husband and I went to meet a numismatist acquaintance of his. Now, this guy, J, is a jerk -- bigoted, misogynist, and more arrogant than anyone has a right to be.

If I'd never heard of a numismatist I'd be inclined to wonder if numismatism was a pretty intolerant sect. :)