On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:08:15 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 6/4/2021 9:50 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>> I've run off both Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.* 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

Yeah but... gated communities may as well display a sign on the gate,
"Peyton Place". hehe