Odd things...

[trystinn]

There are several wreaths on the front of our home, each of them gifts from friends, with stars strung across the middles with colored yarn. They are fairly mundane things, having never caused any alarm or concern. Frankly unless you're looking for the stars specifically you are bound to miss them completely. There's also a mezuzah on the front door frame, just to add a small touch of "WHATTHEFUCKitis", which has served as a lovely distraction when church's come a-knocking. Which they do often. We get quite a few missionaries and they've never noticed either, oddly enough.

Inevitably perhaps, someone noticed *something* today - there was a pamphlet stating "The End to False Religion" by the Jehovah's Witless Witness.

The irony.

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[magicalmehendi.livejournal.com]

I had the same pamphlet weilding persons at my door today. I was groggy from my midmorning nap and answered the door very sleepy. The woman there started to tell me she had this pamphlet for me, and all I see is "FALSE RELIGION" on it (damn, the title was sure bold print). Now she had to walk thru my grass, past a very large and prominently displayed Ganesh in the garden...come up the steps and stand by Buddha's head on the railing...and when I politely cut her off and say "aw, no thank you" and smile...she asks me not once but TWICE "are you sure" and seemed a bit offended that I wouldn't take her brochure. And let me tell you, I am completely polite, subdued, and soft when saying "no thank you", but also a bit dismissive I suppose.

Musta been recruitment day.

So then later when Kboy comes home, he's knocking on the front door and we play our usual game of "who iiizzzzzz ziiiiit?" and he says..."I'd like to tell you about the Lord" thru the door! damn, I whip open the front door and brush past him thinking the woman had come back and dropped that litter-ture off when I wasn't looking. But she didn't. Kboy was just being a smartass and had no idea that religious solicitors had been by earlier...lol

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[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Geez, if they'd chosen yesterday to get an area as large as a canvas as Whidbey and Anacortes, there's little we can do.

You thinking "no solicitiing" signs, too?

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[magicalmehendi.livejournal.com]

I love 'no soliciting' signs...at least the idea behind them, which in my opinion is "don't knock on my fuckin door if you aren't known to me"
alas, no one thinks that they are the solicitor in "no soliciting".

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[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I'm actually considering a No Trespassing sign at the moment - and technically, we live in a private community.

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[magicalmehendi.livejournal.com]

that might work better...MIGHT.

One of the things I really appreciated about living in that apartment complex were the signs at entries saying "no soliciting". Silly me in my naivete thinking that people would actually abide by it. In 4 years there were over a dozen people knocking on my door soliciting. Each time I would ask them if they had seen the signs, "oh no, really?" and then they would continue to go to each apartment.
I'm a bitch, so I would call the complex office and turn them which meant maintenance would hunt them down and boot them from the property.

I would suggest several signs, of increasing warnings the closer they get. That way when they ignore them all....you CAN meet them at the door w/ the shotgun cocked.

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[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Have shotgun and four generally useless "guard dogs". At this point, my only hope is that they trip over a dog and one of the bassets drools directly onto their face so they drown to death in my driveway.

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[magicalmehendi.livejournal.com]

they trip and sue...remember murphy and his bastard little law

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[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

i have a dog like that too...about as actually dangerous to most people as.. well. a plush toy.
fortunately he is a BIG dog, who stands up at the door and tries to go OUT! so he can run! around the block!and give mommy a coronary by running across the street and so on....but it must look really scary, because most of the missionaries leave really fast once he hits the door.
although you never know, our previous dog was a wuv bug and licked everyone, right up until the guy tried to break in, then he tried to eat his hand.