To think if I broke his toes, it's his own fault for being a twat?

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

Had a couple of men from a religious group at my door trying to recruit (?) people.

I politely informed them I wasn't interested and closed the door, well tried to close the door. The idiot at my door had put his foot in to try and jam it. My door is really really heavy and it does need closed with force, this man started making noises about his toe being broken

AIBU to not really care? He shouldn't have put his damn foot inside my house in the first place, and quite frankly if you do this when someone is closing their door you have nobody to blame but yourself!! It is intimidation techniques to try and force you to listen to their spiel which quite frankly I'm not interested in, in the slightest. I may have told them this

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

Why do I see leaflet about evolution written down but read porn mag?

[YouTheCat]

I don't know.

[EmmaFreudsGivingMeJip]

I wouldn't worry about it, sounds like he took it in his stride.

[Dinnaeknowshitfromclay]

There's definitely something afoot here!

Oh and by the way twat is a perfectly appropriate name for him. If he was close enough to get his toe caught in the door he was too close IMO and I would have felt intimidated by a stranger that close.

[BackOnlyBriefly]

You did nothing wrong and I'd have invited him to try his head in the door next.

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

If he appears again I may just do that

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

He waited until you were out to post the leaflet!

Treading carefully with you, obviously.

[MostWicked]

You had every right to slam the twat's foot in the door.

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

Treading carefully with you, obviously

I really hope the pun was intended

[ddubsgirl]

we had some guy come to the door 1 day I had already seen them through the window so didnt go to the door what I didnt know was when hubby left for work he hadnt shut the door fully so when the guy knocked our dog ran to the door and jumped up thus shutting the door fully the bloke nearly shit himself

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

Natch it was!

[DameDeepRedBetty]

Well done OP.

And that's from a fully paid up member of the CofE who wouldn't dream of shoving herself in when she's not wanted .

I'm happy to talk about how helpful my faith has been to me, and even suggest that faith might help another person, but shoving oneself - literally - into another person's life and home is just plain rude and stupid.

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

Holy hell. They are back in the neighbourhood. I wonder if he is brave enough to come back. I will be sure to check for stray feet before closing the door if they do.

[Mia4]

You need a snake meep. A friend of mine has loads and when she gets cold callers as she often does, she puts the little grass snake around her neck before answering. Im not sure if it's her blase attitude, the snake or the symbols snakes can represent but no one stays longer then 30 secs.

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

Not so sure about the snakes. Would a Rottweiler have the same effect do you think?

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

I have a rottie x - religious callers avoid him like the plague. It's a shame really 'cause he is very friendly and would actually make them far more welcome than most of the people they call on

[Layana]

Just answer the door naked painted with pagan symbols and yell behind you "can you PLEASE keep the animals QUIET! " Surprisingly effective. As is pretending you didn't hear the doorbell and hurling a particularly smelly nappy out the window.

Or just report them to the local police for intimidating behaviour. Just as likely to be people planning on some nefarious act of burglary as the nefarious act of indoctrination in to the clan of the all seeing sky pixie. If they're legit they won't mind a drive viewing by the police. If they aren't then. Well. Maybe they'll think twice about breaking in to houses in your neighbourhood.

[Layana]

Just answer the door naked painted with pagan symbols and yell behind you "can you PLEASE keep the animals QUIET! " Surprisingly effective. As is pretending you didn't hear the doorbell and hurling a particularly smelly nappy out the window.

Or just report them to the local police for intimidating behaviour. Just as likely to be people planning on some nefarious act of burglary as the nefarious act of indoctrination in to the clan of the all seeing sky pixie. If they're legit they won't mind a drive viewing by the police. If they aren't then. Well. Maybe they'll think twice about breaking in to houses in your neighbourhood.

[Layana]

Well. That was helpful of my phone.
fetches hammer

[RustyBear]

"Just answer the door naked painted with pagan symbols and yell behind you "can you PLEASE keep the animals QUIET! " Surprisingly effective. As is pretending you didn't hear the doorbell and hurling a particularly smelly nappy out the window."

You have practical experience of these tactics, then, Layana? From which side of the door?

[fedupofcataloguescomingthrough]

Who knows if the neighbour before had broken his toe?

[fedupofcataloguescomingthrough]

I have a postcard in my porch - No cold callers, including Sky TV, Double Glazing etc. One day one of these Religious groups turned up with their cheap briefcases in hand. I said "Do you have a pen please?", most politely, and then added to the card "AND NO RELIGIOUS GROUPS EITHER". They left. And I did give them their pen back too.

[Jaymus]

In the first place if his foot was inside your house then hes trespassing. Second let us say you 'felt intimidated and took reasonable steps to rid yourself of said intimidating intruder m'lud'.

[MeepMeepVrooooom]

fedupofcataloguescomingthrough I need to buy a sign.

'felt intimidated and took reasonable steps to rid yourself of said intimidating intruder m'lud'. Of course I was intimidated I'm just a poor defenseless little lady with a little girl in the house Honest.