But Don't Mess With The Missionary Man

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Just got hit up by missionaries. There was no possibility of pretending I wasn’t home, since I saw them approach though the window and they saw me.  And I try to be civil to people, so I opened the door and very politely, very civilly, told them to go the hell away.

 

I know that missionaries are a nuisance, but that’s pretty much all I regard them as.  Anyway, I have the feeling that while they believe on the one hand that they’re on a mission from gawd, somewhere behind they’re rather put out by the whole business. It’s damn cold outside right now, and all dark, and this is Eugene, after all, and who wants to go door to door handing out pamphlets like that?  I felt kind of sorry for them, truth be told,* so I was very nice, but able to repel them with minimal fuss.

 

Who knew that growing up in Salt Lake would teach me such a valuable skill?

*Not enough to ask 'em in for cookies and hot cocoa, but still.

Comments

[annotated_em]

...you know, I have never been proselytized.

I think it's something about the lean and hungry look that I give missionary types that warns them away.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

My grandfather was (and still is) a Biblical expert. When Jehovah's Witnesses used to show up at the door decades ago, he wouldn't turn them away. He'd bring them in, sit them down, and he'd begin debating scriptural interpretation with them point by point for several hours. I have no doubt he had the ability to do a pretty darn good job of it, at that.

When my grandmother saw some of them he hadn't seen, she'd try to turn them away as fast as possible so he wouldn't have enough time to notice they were there.

[viizou.livejournal.com]

When missionaries come to my door, I tell them straightaway I'm already a practicing Christian - then I start lecturing them on why they shouldn't randomly impose their faith on others, and how they're giving the rest of us a bad rep (I put it in more diplomatic terms, but that's the gist of it). It's completely ineffective, but it's kind of fun.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I'm _wastrel and I approve of this message. >_>

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

My dad keeps trying to sell 'em my mother's books. Usually he's successful. It's pretty funny.