On 6/4/2021 9:50 AM, Gary wrote:
> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> I've run off both Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.Â* If you tell them,
>> "No one on our block wants your shit," and go out in front of your
>> house like you might follow them, they leave.
>
> I've had both come to my door. I politely tell them I'm not interested
> but leave some literature and I will read it. So they do, and I do read
> it. It's that simple and polite. They never come back.
>
> Note: this is required by their religions. They probably don't like
> knocking on doors either.
>
>
When I was a teenager in Memphis there were young men wearing black
suits with white shirts, always a tie, riding bicycles on the street in
front of the house where we lived. Mormons. Yes, it was required of
them. They usually didn't bother walking up the steps to knock or ring
the bell because they pretty much knew no one wanted to hear their spiel
or take the pamphlets/tracts.

In the summer heat, those guys looked miserable. (Actually they looked
miserable and bored no matter what time of year.) When the temps hit
90...I'm thinking take off the tie! Loosen the buttons on the collar.
Not allowed to be comfortable?! "Sweating for God" makes no sense to me.

I felt sorry for them. They knew they weren't going to "convert"
anyone. It's a weird idea to me to require people to dress in a
specific way and do something like ride bicycles and hand out tracts to
strangers, but unless they join! don't associate with them. Huh?

I don't have that problem now. Gated communities can be a wonderful
thing. My neighbors don't try to sell me things like Amway or Herbalife
or Watkins or Avon, either. Whew!

Jill