BlueBrooke wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:07:33 +1100, "Ozgirl"
> > wrote:
>
>> Nick Cramer wrote:
>>> Janet Wilder > wrote:
>>>> W. Baker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My original reply seems to have gotton lost. I said,"Jnet,
>>>>> Didn't you realize that Nick is our resident hard liquor expert?"
>>>
>>>> I realize that now, Wendy.
>>>
>>> So Jaye, as I say to the JW's, when they come knocking on my door,
>>> "Would you like to come in and have a drink with me?" ;-D
>>
>> I like the Mormons. Once I was sick when I answered the door and the
>> two clean cut boy next door American kids offered to come and help
>> me out as I had all 4 of my youngest here back then. I said well,
>> there is lots of bedding to wash becasue of the vomits and they said
>> no problem!!! I said no, really I couldn't ask them to do that.
>> After a bit of an argument they conceded. I doubt they would have
>> accepted any hard liquor though
>
> I had a friend who was raised Mormon. She said the best thing about
> them was how they took care of each other. She explained to me that
> was the purpose of the frequent home visits. I can certainly
> appreciate that. People can have some very hard times, but if no one
> visits, no one knows. It's pretty easy to convince people over the
> phone that everything is fine, when one peek in the front door will
> show that it isn't.
>
> If anything ever happened to my husband (who checks in every day), my
> son and I could rot down here for weeks -- maybe even months -- before
> anyone even knew something had happened to us.

I was blown away that they sincerely wanted to come in and help with
whatever, not just a vacuum or yard tidy. I almost felt bad for refusing
them. In the pouring rain one day I offered to pick two of them up and they
refused, almost seemed happy to walk in the teeming rain with no protection.
And I rather like being called ma'm