I am normally polite but just shouted at a JW, feeling bad, WIBU?

[JellyBellyWorkWear]

I'm had my fair share of crap jobs including phone calls and knocking on doors to make ends meet and also appreciate JW mean well. I am polite to everybody I meet as I honestly believe it makes the world a nicer place/ I get treated better/ my kids have a better example.

Just now two JW knocked on the door, I've opened a few times to them politely explaining we are happy in our religion and won't be changed on the doorstep or attend elsewhere, wish them a good day and say bye. At the time they call I bet very few are in, so despite me usually juggling kids and dismissing them they return.

I was settling a baby and a toddler, one on the sofa in basket and for the first time ignored the door. They saw me walking up the path (no nets) so I was obviously ignoring it. He knocked firmly, knocked firmly then really put some welly into the knocker, I jumped let alone waking both kids in a a start.

I snapped and flung open the door and yelled 'well done for waking two babies trying to smack a hole in the door, DO NOT EVER visit my house again with your bloody propaganda' and flung it closed in their faces as he stuttered.

Ok I know it was rude, but understandable? I had to restrain myself and wondering if it's the stress being passed or them being unreasonable in their actions hammering like that.

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

I've told my story before of a debt collector/bailiff type who knocked on my front door. I was on the sofa, off sick from work so ignored the knock. He walked round the back of the house, through the back gate, down the path, through my kitchen and into the living room. and he'd got the wrong house
He wanted number 9 some other street.

[SabrinaMulhollandJjones]

Ok, I'll admit then I said 'fucking' not 'bloody'



Yanbu.

[Lottashakingoinon]

@ Youthecat

I can't believe that would stop Christians from bothering you! I in fact am Jewish and they just treated it as more of a interesting challenge and for a while it worked

[ComeAlongPond]

Has anyone seen Book of Mormon?

"Hello would you like to change religion and have a free book written by JESUS?!"
"No no Elder Cunningham, that is NOT how we do it..."

- very funny song imo.

(I know it's about Mormons not JWs but the door knocking thing is the same principle.)

YANBU OP.

[hiddenhome]

You have to tell these people you're Catholic. They leave you alone then

[jacks365]

Jw do have a do not visit list but asking nicely will not get you on it. Friend of mine is a minister and was visiting his mother when they called and stood calmly disputing their claims. She's now on the for not visit list. Another way is being totally and completely unreasonable, i open the door take one look say not interested and close it again.I talk over them if i have to. I'm not interested in listening and i make sure they know if that makes me rude then so be it i really don't care what they think.

[expatinscotland]

I tell them I'm Jewish, too, Cat, even though I'm an atheist.

[BeckAndCall]

I dispute the bit where you see that 'JWs mean well'. they don't. They mean to change you if they possibly can.

[frazmum]

When we were kids most of the parents in our street used to make us answer the door when they saw it was the JW's and make us say our parents weren't home. Either they guessed what was going on or in those days didn't think twice that there was a whole street full of young kids home alone.

Also - just cause I have a doorbell doesn't mean I have to answer it, just like my phone.

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Someone needs to tell GetOrf to get over to this thread

OP YADNBU!

[UnChartered]

all this lying?
if you want them to fuck off, tell them so

[Gerrof]

I'm here hearts under my newish name. I know, it would have been a lot better to come on this thread as getorfmoiland.

[imour]

why do they troop round in gangs , split into pairs then try to lure you into there little cult ,its like they are trying to sell you their religion on the doorstep like a pack of dusters , i like them seeing me in my kitchen purposely ignoring them and shouting to the kids dont answer the door .

[crossparsley]

I can't stand anyone persistently demanding I answer the door, the 'phone, anything. I don't mind the postie ringing the bell and knocking once (to be fair I'm usually not in the house to hear it anyway and when I am, he waits until I get downstairs because he is the best postie in history) but anyone else is just asking whether you are willing to engage - not not not whether you are in. They are asking for your attention, you do not owe it to them.

Well done. The next time this happens to me I hope I have the presence of mind to explain to them that answering the door is my choice and never their right to insist on.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

changed back

[Primrose123]

YANBU.

I did something similar a long time ago when my eldest was a difficult 6 month old baby. It was near Halloween, and we didn't really have trick or treating like it is today.

I had just got the baby off to sleep and was holding her when the doorbell rang. My dog jumped up, and I grabbed her collar and talked to her to try to stop her barking at the doorbell. I had no intention of answering the door, and assumed that whoever was there would go away. They kept ringing, on and on, until the dog started barking and the baby woke up. I was furious. I went to the door with a screaming baby. There were two teenage boys who said 'trick or treat' and then stopped when they saw my face. I told them that in future, if someone doesn't answer their door, stop ringing the bloody bell! They went away very sheepishly.
I think they thought I was the Halloween witch!

[FeckOffCup]

YANBU, I told a cold caller on the phone to piss off the other week when they woke my DD who was sleeping on the couch after having been up half the night being sick. Someone repeatedly banging on my door would have pushed me over the edge and I would probably have threatened physical violence on them. Cheeky fuckers the lot of them, if I want to buy anything from windows to religion I can find it for myself.

[PoohBearsHole]

Err am so glad I was reading this thread!!!!!! Just this minute a presumed JW came a knocking at the gate, I stood up to see if it was a delivery then ducked down big styles as I didn't recognise them (no car, not a neighbour, not dying of a heart attack so therefore wanting the phone....) it was so someone religious orientated as she dressed JW like we have two ways of getting into our house, and last time they scared the living shit out of my "nanny" due to appearing behind her in the garden and thing her on the shoulder. She is mature and was not best pleased was hoping that would be the last time they visited!

[diddl]

Well done you!

Why do they go door to door?

What I mean is if I was interested I would seek them out-doesn't that apply to most people?

So I can't help thinking that the door to door is to prey on the vulnerable.

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Getorf I was just advance searching you to find which name you've been under

[PoohBearsHole]

Diddl I agree, it could be construed as bullying especially as they are so thick skinned!

[pigsDOfly]

Oh Jellybelly you sound quite restrained under the circumstances.

I've made the mistake several times with JW of being polite to them and then they call again and it's almost impossible to get rid of them. I've made up my mind that if the current ones call again (all apologetic because they haven't come to see me for a while) I will just tell them I'm not interested.

And in my experience telling them you're Jewish just makes them rub their hands together at the prospect of the challenge.

[diddl]

Especially as they are in twos.

I remember feeling quite threatened when I was home alone with my pfb.

Mainly because they wouldn't take the hint, as you say.

[crazypaving]

YADNBU. The rage associated with a woken baby is never ever unreasonable.

in my village a nosy busybody lady drops round the village newsletter every month. the month ds2 was born she took it into her head she wanted to meet him. she came at 1pm every day (ds1, not yet 2 years old, down for his nap, while I was usually trying to feed ds2) for three sodding days and her approach was this:

ring doorbell, wait
knock doorknocker, wait
open porch door, hammer fist on inner door, wait
ring doorbell three times in quick succession, wait
hammer doorknocker a few times quite hard, wait
hammer with fist on interior door
mutter crossly and stalk away.

by this point, both babies crying and me on the verge of flinging the window open and using vocab that would make me the talk of the village for a good few years.

three days running!! when I see her now I still want to shout at her!

[YouTheCat]

I am worried now that 'I'm Jewish' might not work in future.

I'm now considering painting a huge pentacle on my front door and nailing a dead chicken to the gate.