Bad day to knock on my door.
Around 11am this morning, there was a very loud knock on my door, I thought it might have been the mailman, I was expecting a package today, (got it Mom, thanks!) but it wasn't the mailman, it was 2 women selling god.
When I peeked out the door window, I saw the 2 women standing there and one of them was holding a big wooden box.
I wasn't sure they were god sellers at first, the big wooden box threw me for a loop, I thought they may have been selling some of those entertainment coupon books, or some of those pizza discount coupons, or maybe they were going door to door selling Rocky Patel cigars or magazine subscriptions, the wooden box really threw me off.
As soon as I opened the door and asked "May I help you?", I knew what they were selling.
One of the women had started to take out a Watchtower magazine, and because now is so the wrong time to be trying this crap with me, I snapped.
"Are you banging on my door trying to sell god?!" I shouted.
One of the women started to say "Ma'am, being the day before Halloween..." but I cut her off before she could even finish that sentence, "Get the hell off of my property right now!"
The same woman who had started to tell me that being the day before Halloween they felt the need to remind people about god, tried to protest, but I just kept shouting for them to get off of my property right freaking now or I would call the police.
They tried to go to the door on the other half of my duplex, but that unit is still empty, so I yelled at them again, "That apartment is vacant, no one lives there, so get the hell off of my property right now! Do NOT make me come outside, Do NOT make me call the cops, get your feet moving very quickly and get the hell off of my property right now!"
The 2 women were looking at me in complete disbelief, like how dare I yell at them to get off my property, how dare I threaten them with the police or make me go outside after them.
They were walking rather slowly towards the sidewalk, so I opened the door and yelled even louder, and had grabbed the 2x4 that I keep behind the front door.
Once they saw that, they started running out of the driveway as fast as they could.
I just wasn't in the mood to even try talking to them about their god, I didn't want to hear it, I didn't want to even be dealing with it.
I don't give a crap about tomorrow being Halloween, the one day of the year that the dead supposedly walk the earth, none of it, I just didn't want to hear what they were trying to sell me and all of the other people on my street.
They turned into the driveway to my left and my neighbor was outside with his dog, he had heard me yelling at them, so before they even got a few feet into his driveway, he yelled at them to get off of his property too.
I don't know what it is that makes these people think they have the right to go door to door all of the time, what makes them think they have the right to do this?
Would they like it if I came to their home and started telling them about atheism?
I bet they wouldn't, I bet they would do exactly as my neighbor and I did, and yell at us to get off of their property.
I'm just so over this kind of stuff, and I seriously pity the next person who comes to my door with this crap, and I bet someone will come back tomorrow morning.
They are always at it on Saturday mornings, and with tomorrow actually being Halloween, I bet there will be another team of them going door to door trying to warn people of the evils of Halloween.
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WHY is it legal for these people to bother us? I have a NO SOLICITING sign on my front door, but it doesn't do much good. Apparently, religious nutjobs are exempt from this.
Around here, they come on Saturdays, almost at the buttcrack of dawn. Too bad I'm in Massachusetts, otherwise I'd answer the door with my largest chef's knife in my hand. But here, that would be construed as a threat, and my ass would go to jail. Good times!
I hate that they are allowed to harass people like this.
Posted by: Christine | October 31, 2009 2:58 AM
You could always put up a sign that's easily readable from the edge of your property that says something like: "If you don't have an appointment or I am not otherwise expecting you, GO AWAY!"
Posted by: Selif | October 31, 2009 4:01 PM
Fuckin' assholes ! The baptists were the last ones clueless enough to knock on my door. I tell then what I think, "the god of the Bible is a psychopath. He commited genocide on a world-wide level. If such a creature did exist, only a cock sucker would honor such a monster." I believe they won't come back.
Posted by: mac | November 1, 2009 5:21 PM
People suck who do this, not sure if you read or not but I was sick one day having a rough time with my Grandma and two older gentlemen knocked on my door, my boyfriend brought me a "book"...my Boyfriend not having a clue on how I feel about people trying to sell me their religion did not know I would react the way I did. I got up out of bed, ran to the door asked where these people were...I started yelling out the door. I told them to shove this book up their arses because I DO NOT want to read their book. I literally threw it at them. I turned around did something went back outside to throw it in the garbage...it was gone. They had actually left my street, turned around and left. With all that my Grandma had went thru, I was having a rough time dealing with it all and I didn't need someone trying to sell me their religion, that obviously I don't believe in.
Posted by: Christie | November 1, 2009 5:58 PM
A common tactic around here is that those people show up selling god, but they have their young kids with them. I often wonder if they think people won't flip out because they thumpers have their kids with them. I'm slightly more polite, but still tell them to beat it.
Posted by: The Constant Complainer | November 4, 2009 5:20 PM