Never seen a jehovas witness walk on air before( strange and some gore)

[RetailWorkhorse]

where the dawn light picks out the pentagram painted there in eggshell.

They never had a problem with Jehovah's Witnesses again.

Rule Numbah One broke!


One of my best customers is a JW and my SM's Mum and Dad are JWs.

My customer's hubby, My Stalker (he knows everything that happens to me because he knows everyone and they like to talk), actually knew about the time i took a shotgun with me to answer the door. I live in the boondocks and NO ONE comes to see me unless it's the mailman or the delivery guy, so I was kinda freaked out when I didn't see a big brown truck.

I did managed to scare a couple of girls by......laughing..... well, one of them had the same name as EQ and I found that horrendously funny and I still have no idea as to why.

[Evil Queen]

I found that horrendously funny and I still have no idea as to why.

Because I'm Athiest Scum and they're going to Hell Heaven.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Because I'm Athiest Scum and they're going to Hell Heaven.

Probably, probably. I know I couldn't tell Dad (he asked why I was rolling on the floor) because I hurt too much.

[smileyeagle1021]

...and I thought my mum's cousin's Jehova's Witness story was bad...

They rang the bell just as he was finishing a shower. He answered wearing only a towel around his waist. When they mentioned "the Lord", he let the towel drop. His house is now blacklisted.

I like that idea... if ever I get JWs at my door I'll have to try that... of course that means that I have to always walk around in a towel and my roommate might not like that (then again if this summer turns out as hot as last summer we may all be wandering around the condo in underwear anyway... that would be a site for the JWs).

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

...and I thought my mum's cousin's Jehova's Witness story was bad...

They rang the bell just as he was finishing a shower. He answered wearing only a towel around his waist. When they mentioned "the Lord", he let the towel drop. His house is now blacklisted.

my friend's house is blacklisted. why? he shot them with his BB gun(they hit his dog)

[Skrae]

One of my friends who's pagan actually has a pentagram on their door, and yet that doesn't deter the door to door jesus salesmen for some reason. Guess they're really committed to their cause, which, while admirable, drives my friend and her family nuts.

One of these times I just happened to be there at the time, and I decided to borrow an idea from Jenny Breeden and yelled, "Hurry up, the virgin sacrifice is starting." Not very original I know, but amusing nonetheless.

Then we got one the other day, and just a bit of backstory of my family, we've got a pagan (me), agnostic (roommate), jew (mom) and I think atheist (uncle). Anyway, unfortunately they had left before I got back to the house with the mail (I really could have had fun, not too bad granted, but just a little shock value) and my roommate who got the door is too polite for some of the things I'd like to do.

[smileyeagle1021]

I was just thinking, I wonder what their reaction would be "sure, I'd love to hear more... only I do believe that all serious discussions should be done in the nude or as close to nude as possible so that our clothes are not distracting us" if they would walk in and start stripping off their clothes...
...sorry, the whole discussion about the lady answering the door nude and the guy dropping his towel now has my mind stuck in *naked* mode (can you tell I need sleep)

[AnqeiicDemise]

Last year, I bought a little sign that read "The Witch is In/Out" and kept it permanently flipped to "In".

JWs stayed away when that sign remained hanging outside my doorstep well into Christmas.

One guy *did* say he'd pray for me every day because I was to stubborn and I informed him that was cool with me if he'd let me take his picture. When he asked why, I said I'd love to keep his picture on my altar so the Gods could keep an eye out for him so, you know, he wouldn't get shot at or dismembered by an angry atheist/pagan/christian/annoyed person/cereal killer.

He just kind of... walked away.

[tropicsgoddess]

BG: My family and I are from Suriname (formerly known as Dutch Guyana).

My parents told me this one. Occasionally they'll get a Jehovah's witness at their door. Their little trick to fend them off and telemarketers is to speak to them in Dutch and act like they don't understand a lick of English (when they actually can speak both languages fluently) as their nice way of telling them "We don't want to talk to you, please go away".

There was one group of Jehovah's Witnesses that came to their door, and my parents did their little "Wij or Ik spreekt geen engels" or "Wij /Ik begrijpt uw niet" (Dutch for: We/I don't speak any English...We/ I don't understand you). They expected them to walk away, but instead they called over one of their Dutch members to speak with my parents.

[BookstoreEscapee]

no it wasn't


I used to work with a jehova's witness, and he was cool. he didn't even try to jam his religion down my throat

I used to work with a guy who was JW, too. He kept it out of work.

How do you make them go away and stay away? (I keep being bothered by them at work and have kindly asked them to please stop dropping off literature, but still... bupkis.)

Are there any "No Soliciting" rules at your workplace? You could start there. I mean, technically, that's what they're doing.

[LewisLegion]

Are there any "No Soliciting" rules at your workplace? You could start there. I mean, technically, that's what they're doing.

Only if they're asking for money

[iradney]

I dated a JW - surprisingly, he didn't try to convert me. And he was HAWT *drool*.
Something a friend of a friend found was rather effective - she was plagued by JWs every week, and finally, she answered the door one day and quite politely said "I'm so sorry, but this is a gay household." They haven't bothered her since.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I dated a JW - surprisingly, he didn't try to convert me. And he was HAWT *drool*.
Something a friend of a friend found was rather effective - she was plagued by JWs every week, and finally, she answered the door one day and quite politely said "I'm so sorry, but this is a gay household." They haven't bothered her since.

I find it ironic that that sort of thing scares them away. If their goal is to "save" people, shouldn't they be wanting to save all the "sinners"? Not trying to get into a fratching-type discussion, I just find it curious (and please note my use of quotation marks). I've only had JWs at my door once that I can remember. I was in HS or college I think. I just told them I already had my own church and I wasn't interested in changing. (Though by that time I had pretty much stopped going to church.)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

How do you make them go away and stay away? (I keep being bothered by them at work and have kindly asked them to please stop dropping off literature, but still... bupkis.)

Get this real maniacal look in your eye and exclaim "Hey! You're just in time! We've shaved the goat but haven't started the ritual yet!"

[Gurndigarn]

I find it ironic that that sort of thing scares them away. If their goal is to "save" people, shouldn't they be wanting to save all the "sinners"?

There are a number of possibilities. Keep in mind that these are people, not mindless automata running on a script. Some of them are scared because, well, you're trying to scare them. Some of them recognize these tactics as a certain amount of finality, which they didn't get from a basic "no". Some of them-- well, they want to keep their church free of such nutcases. And I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons, too.