But now I'm thinking maybe they were Jehovah's Witnesses

I have so many people ringing my bell from charities I've never heard of I now ask "who is it" without answering the door. These 2 said their names and I said: "from where?" and they gave the name of a suburb and starting rambling and I cut them off with "no thanks"
they woke my sleeping baby, bastards

I am putting a sign up, I've had enough.

Don't feel bad, I'm rude to people at the door as well. And the fact that they woke up your baby is another reason to get angry, I would feel the exact same way! I don't even open my door when someone knocks on it, but I have peephole that I can look through to see who is standing there. I've turned away more than one person without opening the door since I've moved here.

Damned that Larry & Prince!

ThePurpleChode said:

Yeah, the nerve of them, knocking on nilegettolrahc's door.

nilegettolrahc said:

Next time they come by just say.....put me on your DO NOT CALL list and don't come back.....that will keep them from coming back atleast a year.....then the elders will come by in a year to make sure you still feel that way.

Its ok two different people tried to give me copies of the watchtower on the buss today and yeasterday.

notoriousj said:

See, I don't mind those publications, I always read them cover to cover. If they'd told me they were witnesses I would've opened the door and grabbed a copy. It's just the save the tree dodgy charities I'm not interested in, creepy old guys selling pens and whatnot.

Ah, the joys of living in a controlled-access building....

It ain't a big deal man... I'm rude to people all the time weather they at my door or just greeting me period in person. It's all good in the hood.

I try not to be rude to people, but sometimes I just run out of patience. There's only so many stale cookies and religious publications a girl can take!

If they sell cookies or calendar for charity... I often consider it...and often buy something.

If they sell religion... I tend to get rather rude.

matt said:

co-sign.

I know you've got your knockers nilegettolrahc, but you certainly ring my bell.

TheRealFiness said:

i wanna put that as the message on my voicemail...

It is upsetting when people wake up the baby... then you couldn't even talk to them if you wanted to, because you have to go take care of the baby! So never mind.

it really is a shame when people believe that their need to promote whatever cause they're espousing overrides your right to privacy and peace in your own home.

you should definitely put up a no-solicitation sign. if these people are serious about recruiting your support they should have the courtesy to mail you something that you can read when it's convenient for you to do so

Just fill the yard with land mines and laugh as they try to get to the door without losing limbs.

Oh, but you miss all the fun. You can answer the door with a crazed look in your eyes and start babbling stuff like: "Who sent you?" "are you with the cia?" "don't try eating my brain, I have a gun".

XxAxX said:

I will be doing that.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

TMPletz said:

then they will be armless!

charlottegelin said:

Next time answer the door with a T-shirt that reads;
Satan is my homeboy!

PurpleJedi said:

OMG, that would be hysterical! Can you picture the look on a JW's face when they saw what your T-shirt said?

psychodelicide said:

or just "satan lives here" on the door so they don't bother knocking

Here's a bit-o-fun to be had. Next time the JW's or any religion, but we know who the door knockers are, come to the door knocking., tell them it isn't a good time right now and when they ask what time would be good tell them 3 days to a week, depending on how much time you need to set this up.

After they leave and have an appointment, go about getting special effects and such things to do up your living room. Stapple up and/or tape big pieces of plastic sheeting on the walls and across the floor. See if you can get a chair made up of look like human bones. Get a bunch of things that look like hairlines and tack them to the wall. Be free to create something that looks like it came out of the Texas Chainsaw masicer or at least something like that. Lastly put some fake blood on the floor and mop it up baddly. Leave the bloody mop bucket out in the open.

When they come a knocking, invite them in and ask if they were your 3:30 appointment and did they "tell anyone where they were going?".

MickG said:

once 2 very young (possibly underage) mormon girls came to the door.
My husband invited them in and said to them, very seriously "I very am interested in fornication". The girls looked at each other nervously and suddenly had to be somewhere else urgently. He'd meant to say "I very am interested in the views about fornication"

psychodelicide said:

Nothing phases witnesses. Do you want to hear a story?

I had a guy come to the door one time who then went into his house and brought out some Satanic symbols of various kinds to show me, thinking I'd be shocked. I can't remember what I said, but it freaked him out and he went running back bug-eyed in the house.

I wish I could remember. But it's been years ago.