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To want to tell the Jehovah's Witness that call to my home to PISS OFF

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 10:55

I have just had them again. This is the 5th time in just over two weeks. Why you might ask. Well the first time I made the mistake of answering the door. She was a pleasant lady and started talking about how nice it is to sit and talk to our Dad's. I told her that I was not fortunate enough to have my father around anymore and to be honest she could not have called at a worse time as it would have been his birthday the next day. I did not let her in and only spoke to her for about 2 minutes out of sheer politeness as this is how I have been brought up. She said she would call again I said no thanks I have my own faith. She has been 4 times since then, each time with a different companion. I am sick to death of this I have not been answering the door when I see her walking down the street.

Surely this is harrasment. What I really want to shout at her in a very loud voice is:

PISS OF YOU WEIRD RELIGOUS CULT MEMBER, MY VICAR DOESN'T CALL CONSTANTLY AT YOUR FECKING HOUSE TO PREACH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHY DO YOU THINK AFTER 43 YEARS I AM GOING TO CHANGE MY RELIGION BECAUSE OF YOU. AND I GIVE BLOOD SO THERE! AND SLAM DOOR.

But of course I won't say it I will just nod and smile and say no thanks and close the door quietly.

Thanks rant over!

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 12:11

I wonder what they would do if I went to the door in a vicars dog collar thingy.....Mmm

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mrsleroyjethrogibbs · 14/10/2008 12:13

daphneMoon if you were just wearing the vicars dog collar and nothing else I would imagine they would be speechless

TheInvisibleManDidIt · 14/10/2008 12:14

lol, Daphne try going to the door in only a vicars dog collar!!!!

MwaHaHaMhamai · 14/10/2008 12:14

Slightly off topic but I remember my father years ago hurling obscenities at the mormons at the door. He worked night shifts as a taxi driver and they had woken him up.

I once accidently ended up at a bizzare born again christian wknd convention...........but that's another story.

TheInvisibleManDidIt · 14/10/2008 12:15

x-post . Worth a try daphne

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 12:32

Theinvisiible and Mrsleroy great minds think alike! Liking that idea alot. Might add whip and thigh high boots

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mrsleroyjethrogibbs · 14/10/2008 12:37

hahahahahaaaa now I would love to be a jw just to see that

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 12:46

Actually I find it quite interesting that no JW have come on here to defend themselves. If there are any out there reading this. I would really really like to know why you call on people and what you hope to achieve. Do you convert any?

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wotulookinat · 14/10/2008 12:57

I once lived in a ground floor flat where my bedroom shared a wall with the communal hallway. The JWs came around, kids in tow, and I could hear them in the hallway and the kids were banging on the wall (oblivious to what was the other side, not done out of nastiness). I was trying to have a lie-in and was fuming I opened my front door, gave them a right mouthful. It really shocked them as they were currently knocking on the door of the elderly lady opposite. She was very grateful not to have had to talk to them and we never saw them again.

Cheeseandseveredfingersarnie · 14/10/2008 12:59

we had jw knock on door few weeks ago,i told them politely that sorry but no.they came back 2 weeks later to say theyd never had any one ask them to go so politely

wotulookinat · 14/10/2008 13:02

They have come around here a few times, but since I have got a second barky dog they don't bother with my house anymore Woof woof!

procrastinatingparent · 14/10/2008 13:03

Never take literature just to get rid of them as I believe it marks you down for a return visit.

Next time I am going to try, 'if you convert us, my husband will lose his job', and see how that goes down ... (DH is a clergyman.)

Tidgypuds · 14/10/2008 13:05

Daphnemoon, why dont you politely ask them why they call at your door, instead of slagging them off on here, you may get more answers.

wotulookinat · 14/10/2008 13:06

It's part of their beliefs to try to convert people. Fair enough, but it can be a bloody nuisance.

Tortington · 14/10/2008 13:07

oooooooooog nice christian attitude there.

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 13:09

Ok so based on the replies so far, this is what I am going to try. I am going to go to the door clutching my Virgin Mary statue in a vicars dog collar, thigh high boots and a whip and nothing else, tell them I am a practising Catholic/Jew/Muslim/born again christian/atheist who loves Christmas, drinks like a fish, gives blood, has had 10 blood transfusions and could they go as it is my birthday and I need to get back to the orgy party. And of course I will be very polite about it. Do you think it would work!

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Majeika · 14/10/2008 13:09

and think of them!

Do you think they enjoy going from house to house?

Do you not think they are probably terrified of people like you?

And why no wine with their meal Expat?

JWs do drink alcohol.

Cheeseandseveredfingersarnie · 14/10/2008 13:11

they didnt watch that trinny and susannah saying about not wearing black either.always smart but is there a reason its always black?

procrastinatingparent · 14/10/2008 13:12

Is that to me, custardo?

I am always extremely polite to them. But getting in a conversation with them is pointless because they have no interest in changing their minds. They do not want an open discussion. They have been told what to talk about that week.

When I do have time to talk, I tell them how very suspicious I am about the Watchtower organisation, and its control over the lives of ordinary JWs. The little I know about it I find very frightening.

DumbledoresGirl · 14/10/2008 13:12

I think go with your first instinct and deliver that rant. (Or print it off from here and stick it on the door - even better!)

To hell with Christian charity. They don't show it to you, bothering you (almost intimidating you by the sounds of it) so often.

Anyway, they are Christians aren't they? They'll forgive you!

(BTW, as a Catholic, I can endorse the advice given here that one mention of Catholicism sends them flying).

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DaphneMoon · 14/10/2008 13:13

Tidgypuds, cause if I engage them in conversation they will keep coming back. Sorry but IMO they deserve to be slaggged off. It is an invasion of my privacy and I do not go round to their house at lunch time to preach my faith because I appreciate that everyone has their own faith. So why can't they?

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Tidgypuds · 14/10/2008 13:13

They dont always were black!? they can wear any colour they like as long as its modest and smart.

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 14/10/2008 13:15

Oh FGS, there's no need to be rude to them, simply get in touch with the local Kingdom Hall and ask them to put you on the 'do not visit' list.

As has been pointed out twice on this thread already.

Cheeseandseveredfingersarnie · 14/10/2008 13:15

i didnt mean it rudely.the ones here always do when theyre doing house calls.i assumed it was same for everywhere.sorry

littleducks · 14/10/2008 13:17

There are some JWS on MN and some MNers with JW families but i think after threads in the past they may avoid these threads

I can see that it is irritating, but unlike salesmen, tv lisencing etc. i thnk you should be grateful the solution is simple, phone up or call into their @Kingdom Hall' and ask for your details to be listed on a 'do not visit list'

Then problem solved