Not sure if IABU or not?

[welshbyrd]

Just had a knock on the door, answers it, to find I would say a 60ish old white lady, holding hands with the most gorgeous colored 4-5yo boy I have ever seen in my life.
I said 'hello?'
she said 'We are Jehovah witnesses'
Im never rude when they come to the door, but I am stern in saying sorry not interested,anyway I did this, went to close the door, and caught another glimpse of this boy, and could not contain myself saying 'OH my God, you have a little boy with you? he should be playing in the park or something not walking around door to door?
Anyway she asked why?
I could not saying anything else except Im sorry but Im closing the door now

Perhaps I have lived a secluded life, but I have never seen anything like this before

What did thier race have to do with it?

Anyone else thinking of gorgeous colours?

sorry where you left it got your post mixed up with the OP.

I think it's unreasonable to go knocking on people's doors trying to convert them to your religion.

are you sure she is your natural mother?

OP, just saying it's never happened to me, that's all. In fact, it's an announcement conspicuous by its absence. In fact I wondered if it was to delay the inevitable Closing Of The Door.

Anyway, musn't keep you, other posters have asked you stuff.

Red and yellow and pink and green.........

why have you told us what colour they were? what does that have to do with anything?

They may enjoy it and want to do it.
Dh used to do a door to door charity collection once a year and the children would be falling over each other in their eagerness to go. Don't know whether it raised more money but they really loved going along the road and talking to all the people.
Don't quite understand JWs myself, but my fil thinks it's funny to keep them talking for as long as possible until they're trying to escape. (evil laugh)

Like others I'm a bit at "coloured".

IIRC ( best friend at school was a JW) I think it's part of the deal, they have to 'spread the word,' so I imagine introducing kids to this was of life is part of it.

Most people under 70 don't use the term 'coloured' any more, btw

Yes I thought that too until I moved out of London to the back of beyond - was a bit of a shocker!

"most gorgeous colored" I'm thinking scarlet with magenta stripes?

I too was taken on my Mum's avon round, it was quite fun actually, much more interesting than being in a park or doing "arts and crafts"

OP... I think your embarrassment got the better of you, that's why you mentioned the park, that's all. You said it in direct response to the attempt to manipulate you and you didn't want to be thought badly of for refusing entry to a child. I too think that using children, dogs, whatever is exploitative and wrong. If the message is strong enough and people are willing to receive it then none of these 'additions' are necessary. To use them to persuade and knowingly try to manipulate people is disgraceful.

I haven't heard the term 'coloured' for a while but what you said wasn't wrong. It was the appropriate term for a while, I think. Anyway for all the faces out there, OP wasn't disrespectful or disparaging in any way so take your racist outrage elsewhere and perhaps do something useful with it where racist attrocities are being carried out.

Well said, LyingWitch.

Spot on, LyingWitch

bluddy's post just made me snort pepsi and the following ones meant I now have pepsi down my freshly laundered top. It is no longer gorgeously coloured.

OP I think you've sussed yabu by now.

I think ops comments where just that lyingwitch....disparaging, maybe not racisit in intent granted not sure anyone has accused her of rasism, just ignorance will do.

Oh yes, festi... I can see how referring to a child as 'gorgeous' is insulting in the extreme. That's just ridiculous jumping on the 'racism bandwaggon' in the wrong place. The 'coloured' reference perhaps wasn't necessary but I think that the OP was embarrassed.

I was in Marks & Spencer the other day and saw a family of Middle Eastern origin with the most beautiful doe-eyed, dark-haired children, they too were gorgeous. I have no idea if 'Middle Eastern origin' is politically correct or not, it's descriptive, they might all have been from Tooting, but the kids were lovely. Anybody who would like to come and accuse me of racism can come and pull faces at me all day, I don't care. I'm sure that some of the followers on this thread will wait for a bit...

It's PC gone mad, 'mad' being the operative word. Pointless and senseless could join it.

Related by adoption?

The correct answer when they ask Will you be a witness for Jehovah is Sorry, I didn't see the accident and shut the bloody door.

Andrew

we've had them knocking this morning as well, they didnt hang around when two rotties answered the door lol

I have a much greater respect for JWs since learning that a couple took my 83 year old great uncle under their wing, taking him back and forth from doctor appt.s and helping him with his personal demons battling a cancer that he had chosen not to share with his loved ones. We only met the couple when they called to tell my Nana that he was in hospital and were so upset at his death the next day, and offered to have a JW funeral for him etc even though he wasn't one... they would take nothing for their trouble except a small donation to their church on his behalf, and had not in any way tried to take advantage of him. I have also never met a rude JW and if their ways are a little odd, so be it.