The other day I was on my way to work and noticed I needed to gas up soon. I figured I would go during my lunch break seeing that I go home for lunch to see my wife and child.

At lunch, I had had a busy day and had little time to drive home for lunch so I figured I would stop at the gas station on the way back from lunch.

Wrong move.

At the first traffic light, my car started to stall. Oops, I said. So at the red light, I punched the gas a little to to try and make a u-turn. (on red) My car only went about five feet then stalled.

Directly accross the street from my work is the West Palm Beach Jehova Witness Convention Center. In front of that is a bus stop. Down the street, two blocks (in the opposite direction I was going) is a gas station.

So...

My car stalled right in the middle of the intersection and I jumped out and pushed it to the bus stop. About 10 yards. Now my job requires me to be in a shirt and tie so it was pretty friggin hot here in south florida and 10 yards might as well been 10 miles.

I reached the bus stop with people wizzin' by me honking their horns out of frustration that I took up the right lane. Just as I put the car in park, I looked over and just then the lawn maintainence crew for the Jehova Witness Convention Center was going by in a riding lawn mower and I noticed a gas tank strapped to the rear.

I offered to pay the driver of the mower for a splash of gas to get me only two blocks down the road.

This guy looks me dead in the eye and says:

"Look man, take the gas, but the next time a Jehova Witness comes to your home, you be nice to them!"

I've never had a Jehova Witness come to my home. Ever. So I'm not sure what to expect. But I really appreciated this kind hearted gentleman that helped me out on a very long hot day. There are many Jehova Witnesses at my work and I've found them all to be very sincere and diligeant bible studying people.

So I promised this good soul that I would never treat anyone period with any less reguard than I do with my own neighbor.

He grinned.

And that was it.









Now my brother on the other hand, toys with them almost every Saturday.

He'll answer the door nude and say things like

"Are you guys from the escort service"?

"Whoo hoo! come on in!
Nevermind those cameras!"


He and his friends will act out all kinds of lewd routines designed soley for shock.

Remember, I come from the same place as Johnny Knoxville. (Tennessee)




What I'd like to discuss here is...

For the Jehova Witnesses:

• Tell us some of the most shocking things you've encountered while visiting homes.
  
• How did you deal with it?
  
• Were you scared?
  

For all others:

• Tell us some of the most shocking things you've done to Jehova Witnesses that have visited you.
  
• How did they react
  
• Are you not ashamed now?
  

Without bashing out against either side of the table, lets talk about this on neutral ground. I'm sure there are some funny stories out there from both sides of the door!


Allright.
Go!



[This message was edited Mon Nov 11 14:41:05 PST 2002 by yamomma]

Be considerate!
[This message was edited Mon Nov 11 14:37:31 PST 2002 by yamomma]

yamomma said:

Also, haven't you ever heard that you are not supposed to let your gas tank go below a quarter of a tank?

Actually that might be a Minnesota rule as our gas tanks will freeze if we don't keep enough gas in the tank in the winter.





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[This message was edited Mon Nov 11 14:21:27 PST 2002 by lovemachine]

My brothers:



So if these guys answer the door.

Look out!

Come on!

I know there have to be some pretty funny things exchanged through between the door way.

Once my brother came to the door with a meat cleaver in one hand and a little puppy in the other.


Now I know my brother is a little extreame, but there has to be more stories out there.

never did anything odd...

but, im gettin a lil tired of them damn teens selling their magazines and might just try pulling something on them...my ex-roomate once invited one of the mag boys in and ended up blowing him...the sick bastard!!!

SkletonKee said:

I see now why he is your ex-roommate.

Here's one story:

I was 16 years old at the time, going from door to door with
my partner one Saturday morning. We came to a house inside a court that was occupied by my Geometry teacher at the time.
I knocked on the door, and a dog started barking loudly. (German shephard if I remember right) The noise that was louder
was of my teacher telling his dog to shoosh. My friend and I just laughed and thought it was funny that he wouldn't answer his door, even though we were both students in his class and talked to us daily. We left after knocking two more times just to hear him quiet his dog.

Sorry if it doesn't qualify as shocking. I've had doors slammed before, but this popped in my head first.
[This message was edited Mon Nov 11 17:00:57 PST 2002 by Housequake2K2]

I've had a guy come to the door in his underwear once with his hair all sticking straight up and I just apologized for waking him and told him the next time I would go by at a latter time then marked him down for latter visits on my call back slip.
Once though me and a brother went to the door where this guy grabbed the magazine out of my friends hands and twisted it all up the brother just told him well then give me back our magazine and untwisted it smoothing it out and told him that's no way to act in front of the brother's young daughter and he just told the guy he could have just asked us to not come back ever again if had such a negative strong attitude towards us because the guy was saying all kinds of curses to us too. I walked away sooner I just left him yelling.

They came to my house when I still lived with my parents. I happened to answer the door, and I knew I was sorry when I saw who it was. I told them that I was a noninterested lesbian child of satan. I have never seen any jehovas move as fast as those two on that day. They started running and never looked back.

I am gonna be nice today!

DCM

No need to shock...common sense works much better.

I was approached by two JWs at a bus station just as
the Greyhound bus I needed to catch pulled in. So I
did a polite 'no thank you' to the invitation to discuss
God, and the more energetic of the two yelled out "So
you don't have time for God?" I did a smart 180-degree
turn, looked him in the eye, and said I always have time
for God; I don't have time for you.

The next few seconds were precious. He either had to
declare himself God, or let me go. The range of
expressions that crossed his face as he tried to
muster up a comeback made the Saturday cartoons
look tame!

And just for you, dcm, yes they did ask for a donation.

DCM here,

RoseofSharon is my new friend!!! (heheheheheeeheheheeehhehe!!!)


DCM

Very good!

more please.

Remember: Keep it civilized. No one knows for sure which side is right.

I'd love to hear from some older cats that might have been with or were on the recieving end of the movement a while back that preached a particular date on which the world might end.

What were some of those encounters like?

Well, I guess I'll share a couple.

One time a man came to the door in his underwear, so I said
I'll come back another time...but he said "no. you wait
just a minute...it won't take me but a minute." So I waited,
and waited, and waited...just as I was about to leave, he shows up at the door fully dressed up! Shirt, tie, pants, belt, socks, shoes, hair combed and all in place looking like this
Sooo, I said, "Judging from the opened books on your coffee table, you are a man who enjoys reading... I was trying to keep a straight face as this man was obviously interested
in more than my bible teaching aids. Needless to say, I did
not go inside.


The other case was when I approached a fellow traveler. I started
a conversation that would lead to a discussion of the bible...We ended up talking 5 hours...he insisted on helping me with my packages, bought me coffee, and grabbed
my hand and kissed it and thanked me for answering so many of his bible questions...
He was going to Detroit. I was headed for the celly!


Then here is one that may be funny to you...it was not funny to me. I went to this house.
There were two loud dogsbarking inside...very loudly. Eventually the householder came to
the door. I said "Will the dogs bite?" She said "I reckon they will. You wanna come in?" I did not want to go in.
The lady was obviously blind(literally) and I guess those were her helper dogs. She asked me "What you got?"
I said I have Bible literature.
I asked, "Can you read? I mean, can you see?"
She says, "I reckon I can. Won't you come in?"
By now I was perplexed, exasperated, or something...
The dogs were barking loudly. So I told my companion, "I'm not going in there."
My companion said, "Here is a magazine. Maybe you can get someone
to read it to you." The lady says..."Where is that other girl? She's not coming in?
I thought she was gonna clean up for me.".....
I went away quietly.

And then there was this lady, very religious..judging from
the little cap she wore as part of her religious apparel...

She lived in a very nice house. When we knocked at the door, there was no answer,
but we detected movement so we knocked once more, before leaving.

Then a big dog came from around the side of the house,
looked at us and went back.
At this time, we were able to see the lady of the house through the screened patio chastizing the dog for
not "getting us".
As clearly as day, we observed her sic him on us...
The dog came back around, looked at us...winked (or so it seemed) and returned to his master.
We waved at her to let her know we could see her and left.

Hi Sensual Melody

DCM here,

This does remind me of the ONE time that I was forced to do the FS thing. I was like 10 years old and the first door that I knocked on (or the one I was made to knock on)we were met with the most ferocious boxer dog that I have seen!! I hauled ass in a shirt and tie with that damn thing on my tail damn near all the way back to my house!! Needless to say, I never did it again!

True story!


DCM

This is not at story, but reading the responses made me wonder what it would be like if Prince and the missis came knocking on my door... I mean- they all have to be out there- if you are not missioning- you are not a good Witness (my brother is one- so I know the rules...) I think I would have let them in for a nice discussion! Would U?

We have a JW who stands in the shopping centre in my town.All he witnesses is pretty young blondes.Dirty old Git!

limhagen said:

That would be a fun one for me.

Story #1: The Man in the Blue G-String

I was with my sister and we were going door to door (I was never "forced" by the way, no one is) I was around 12 yrs old. This guy came to the door, opened it all wide and what not! He was very friendly and wanted to talk, had really nice eyes too, I was younger so I did not know what to do. My sister was like, "No, I see this is not a good time for you, we can stop by another time, have a good day!" and turned to walk back down to the street and I was still standing there, shocked I guess. My Sister had to come back and pull me away.

Story#2: That Mean Old Lady

I was with my mother and we had not even aproached this woman's house, she came out of the door with her big behind dog and sicked the dog on us! I was a young child for crying out loud! we had to run back to the car! This woman was a true idiot to the first! She started yelling at us and making "racist remarks" also.

Story#3: The Catholic Man with young Daughter (recent)

I was with my mother-in-law and this man was with his young daughter in their front yard, we aproached them and greeted them. The man told us he did not think we should be preaching! Of course, knowing that preaching about God's Kingdom IS a commandment from Jesus, we tried explaining that to him but he refused to listen and then told us we did not believe in Jesus' etc etc. He started yelling at us in front of his daughter and basically ran us off his property!

Story #4 The man in the Shopping Mall TODAY - Wonderful Experience.

I was with my nephew who is also one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I went with him to purchase some xbox games, we walked around some and decided to go to the food court . It was jammed packed with people. As we were looking for a table to sit at, this older man told us we could sit with him. We prayed before we ate and he took notice! He was impressed that we did that and then he asked what church we go to, when we told him we go to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses he had many questions in which we were more than happy to answer for him.

He told us many things he had heard about us that ended up being untruths, so we explained our beliefs and so on, to him. We did very well without Bibles in hand! able to recite some scriptures pertaining to the topics which helped answer his questions even more thoroughly. He himself said he tries to have people from his church preach and is amazed that we do that no matter what the obstacle. He asked me to send him some information, gave me his card with his address and phone number on it. He wants to learn more!

Now THAT made my day!

There are other experiences, but these will do. I am sorry but I have to smile a bit at people who hide in their own homes when we come to the door! or the one lady who RAN from her car to her house just avoid a friend of mine and her field service partner recently, I mean come on!

Thecherryloon: Oh please! the man only witnesses to pretty young blondes? you must have a lot of time on your hands if you are there watching the man all day! not believing that one for a minute!

don't really believe in the JW's movement, usually eye'm really bitchy 2 anyone knocking on my door 4 no reason. eye guess eye really need 2 work on that

or maybe eye should start opening the doors butt nekkid too... actually they probably just stay there and stare eh?

dcm said:

DCM,

What IS your problem? And DON'T Be sittin' there behind your computer calling ME a religious Freak! Didn't you read the RULES? You just personally attacked me.

I have NOT attacked anyone honey, so please do not try to make me out to be the bad person and I did NOT attack cherryloon, notice the smiliey's? just a light response to an interesting comment cherryloon made, that's all.

I told my stories just like the rest of us JW's did here and added some comments. If you do not like that, too bad! Perhaps you should not have even participated in this thread since NOW you are trying to blow it all out of proportion. Of course we JW's NOT DUBS as you so unkindly call us, have many many wonderful stories but yamomma asked for shocking ones from Witnesses I just added a nice one at the end. Although I do not owe you any kind of explanation, I am speaking up for others to understand.

I know you have some sort of problem with me since our first encounter (and ALL Jehovah's Witnesses in general)here on prince.org but please DON'T start with me again and do not personally attack me again either.

Peace
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