rubadub wrote: » Not calling door to door expecting people to give up their free time is the polite thing to do, very simple. People slamming doors etc is the equivalent of shouting at a dog or small child, they want to let it be known that they think their behaviour is totally unacceptable, in the hope it will discourage them from doing it again, or at least not have them going off thinking the person did not mind. How are they do know otherwise? The last thing many people want to do is encourage it. I would like to see all forms of cold calling and unaddressed mail distribution made illegal, its an easy cover for burglars. Prince, the singer, is a Jehovah's Witness and calls door to door, I might let him in.
Boom_Bap wrote: » Once upon a time in my college years, I was at a all day and night party at house with lots of merry folk. The booze was going down lovely, the craic was mighty. The doorbell sounded, alot of us who drifted in and out of the house were confused as the doorbell had never sounded before, the door was always open. So upon answering the door, 2 young American Mormons were standing looking extremely doe eyed and innocent at us drunken merry idiots. Instead of running like they should have, they launched into thier speil. We advised that they should join us and talk inside, and they entered the house. To paint a picture, when the party started at 7 that morning, for breakfast we started the day off drinking shots of what we found lying around the house which we knew we wouldn't be drinking later....mainly baileys and a few boxes of wine. There was even a midday run up over the border to get cheaper hooch. So the 2 lads were trying to talk to everyone at the party while everyone at the party was trying to get them to drink booze and tea and smoke cigarettes. We were trying to convince them to rip the sleeves off thier shirts to show off thier guns, a few party goers even demonstrated these by finding shirts about the house and ripping the sleeves off, and flexing in front of the 2 lads. The lads got very uncomfortable.....and we hadn't even started talking about our sexual fantasies at this stage. We began telling them the most out-there ridiculous sexual scenario's possible, and this is when they were making motions to exit. But, they like to be asked to leave and will always ask you if you have any further questions. By golly we did. They must have been there for about 2 hours, alot of the time being told 'wait there, I have to show you something' and running around the house trying to find something ridiculous to show them. Eventually we kind of forgot about them and they disappeared. Nice lads. That's what you do.
grundie wrote: » Oh yes, back in the late 80s my mother befriended two Mormons (one American, one Norwegian) and faked interest in the church. They asked if they could help her. So she had them redecorate the house and then told them to f'off. A few years later my friend met two female Mormon missionaries and did something 'fun' with them in the tunnels of Grianan of Aileach which resulted in the church recalling them pretty quickly.
Was he sowing a few seeds?
