How do you handle unwanted evangelists who knock at your door?

[saddina]

I think some of us get more frequent "visitors" than others. When we moved here we weren't aware there was a door-knocking church a football field away. We litterly get someone knocking at 8-9 am every other Saturday. They see i'm in a wheelchair and they start telling me that it's all in god's plan, and they want to tell me about it (really, thier lead-off is that i'm crippled for Jesus, someone needs some people skills.) I'm not able to use the peep-hole, and UPS comes by in the same hour block in the mornings, so I have to be fast on the door, or else I don't get my scheduled pick-ups. I've tried being kind, i've tried being polite, i've tried saying not to come back. No effect whatso ever.

 

[jwg423]

I don't say anything, as soon as I figure out who it is on my door step, I turn and calmly close the door as if they aren't even there....
They can stand there all day if they want but they will be talking to a door

 

[NYRIR]

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That's too bad....my DD is 12 and had a dog released on her too...she still tries to smile,apologize for any inconvenience and keeps trying

I love her for that! A LOT of people unleash the dogs...




"....you will be hated just as I was hated..."..."you will be tortured just as I was tortured..." They don't like it...but they expect it.

She NEVER said she unleased her dogs on them... Grits would NEVER do that....
She just said that her dogs happend to be in her yard....
I would not be so quick to judge...

True...I did read into it...just because it happens ALL the time! But you are right...so my apologies

 

[Beekissed]

I don't know if it is all that voluntary. As a teenager, my niece was locked in her room a week at a time with only bread and water if she did not knock on doors. Later on in life both her and her brother attempted suicide and both live on psych meds. Voluntary can mean sooooooo many things to so many people.

 

[redhen]

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Yep I agree with this. For a while, there was group of JW's that came to the door often, and the kids used to take them in the garage and give them a soda and I would hear MASSIVE laughter. I walked out there, and they were just a bunch of kids having a good time talking. I am only annoyed with door knocker if they disturb something. I had one couple knock one night when a hatch first started. I told them NOT NOW!!! My chicks are hatching. I wound up with 2 JW's in my kitchen oooing and awing and cackling back and forth about chicks. Even irritated as I was at them for knocking, we wound up having fun and they saw something they had never seen. No religion involved. Good times are about accepting someone as they are.

Same happend here... it was when i had Dyson as a piglet in the house (they saw him through the door.)... they all came in and petted him and asked me questions about him...
Like i said, just nice folks.

 

[debilorrah]

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Yep I agree with this. For a while, there was group of JW's that came to the door often, and the kids used to take them in the garage and give them a soda and I would hear MASSIVE laughter. I walked out there, and they were just a bunch of kids having a good time talking. I am only annoyed with door knocker if they disturb something. I had one couple knock one night when a hatch first started. I told them NOT NOW!!! My chicks are hatching. I wound up with 2 JW's in my kitchen oooing and awing and cackling back and forth about chicks. Even irritated as I was at them for knocking, we wound up having fun and they saw something they had never seen. No religion involved. Good times are about accepting someone as they are.

That is so funny! how cool of you Debi...
The amount of people showing viciousness towards anything Godly is steadily increasing...I am sure they had a good time

Honestly, it is not my opinion toward any one religion more than it is my opinion toward humanity. We are all people, and I will never understand the anger that slams a door on someone simply because they are doing what they are told to do. Now my opinion on the being told what to do is a whole other Oprah!

 

[canada-goose]

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Sheesh. That must get old fast.

 

[NYRIR]

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Yes, there are some who are extremists but that is NOT what they teach....my step-father was one who took it to extremes...it ends up badly!

 

[debilorrah]

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Yep I agree with this. For a while, there was group of JW's that came to the door often, and the kids used to take them in the garage and give them a soda and I would hear MASSIVE laughter. I walked out there, and they were just a bunch of kids having a good time talking. I am only annoyed with door knocker if they disturb something. I had one couple knock one night when a hatch first started. I told them NOT NOW!!! My chicks are hatching. I wound up with 2 JW's in my kitchen oooing and awing and cackling back and forth about chicks. Even irritated as I was at them for knocking, we wound up having fun and they saw something they had never seen. No religion involved. Good times are about accepting someone as they are.

Same happend here... it was when i had Dyson as a piglet in the house (they saw him through the door.)... they all came in and petted him and asked me questions about him...
Like i said, just nice folks.

Chickens have the same affect!!! I had a bunch of kids I never met sitting outside the coop once making comments and asking questions. That was a good summer evening.

 

[redhen]

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She NEVER said she unleased her dogs on them... Grits would NEVER do that....
She just said that her dogs happend to be in her yard....
I would not be so quick to judge...

True...I did read into it...just because it happens ALL the time! But you are right...so my apologies

Thats okay! I can understand that. Sorry you are treated that way...