to wish I could complain to someone about the bloody rude religous callers who keep appearing at my door?

[ThePhantomPlopper]

I'm a practising Buddhist, I don't do religion.

So why in this day and age is it acceptable for people to stand on my door step and tell me I'm going to hell? I even have a sign on my door saying "no religious callers" after I had trouble with another group last year.

I'm not rude to them, I politely tell them I'm not interested, but they just go on and on, I hate the thought of slamming the door in someone's face but I was so tempted earlier, this man didn't just tell me I was going to hell, he went on and on about how I'm responsible for the Planets problems and was starting to yell. I told him he was scaring my daughter, made my apologises (why did I do that?) and closed the door.

I'm raging and I want to complain to someone, but I don't know where, so I'm afraid you lot will have to listen to my rantings.

at that Peachy! How utterly rude of them! And where's the compassion?

Never have seen God looking under beds for dust-bunnies either, mind you! Thought that was MIL's job!

I find inviting them in for coffee and introducing them to the joys of AC Grayling does the trick. If they get nasty I bring Christopher Hitchens out. They soon make their excuses...

You know, I really should skim read... I merged the last two posts together by reading quickly and thought for a moment that mrsrawlinson kept Christopher Hitchens underneath her bed! (Not that that isn't a perfectly good place to keep him...)

some JW's came to my door when i was about 37 weeks pregnant. I saw them coming so when they came to the door i faked a contraction and said "do u know how to deliver a baby" they looked very scared and said no i said well your no use to me at the moment bugger off. Then went inside made a cuppa and couldnt stop laughing at their faces

I used to have a problem but I copied a friend and it is easy. I just say, politely, 'I'm not interested, thank you' and close the door. The trick is not to engage in any conversation whatsoever.

Anyone comes to my door in pairs looking smartly-dressed gets 'sorry not interested bye' and the door closed very rapidly. Chuggers are actually more annoying than JWs at the moment.

FIL scares the JWs off by telling them he's a Christadelphian (like JWs only more extreme) - they apologise profusely and scarper! Actually he was raised as one and is now hugely anti-religion.

I once answered the door to some JWs when I was about 22 and living in a student house. They said very kindly 'are your mum and dad in?' to which I replied quite truthfully that they weren't. they never came back!!

I had a lover who had a pentagram sticker on his front door. I said, 'Oh, I didn't know you were a pagan?' He said, 'I'm not, but it keeps all the religious callers away, they think it's a Satan symbol.'

I got really annoyed at one guy, as I had just got the house warm on a chilly day. He tried to give me a leaflet after him chatting and me trying to be polite. I told him that I didn't like having them in the house as I thought the pictures were creepy. His face was so funny, I don't think he had heard that one.

Now, I look out of the window before opening the door. My ds has stopped getting upset and screaming when I do this now. I have informed him that I don't have to open the door if I don't want to.