Uncategorized 31 Dec 2007 12:38 am
Big day for Jehovah’s Witnesses?
On the day after Christmas, a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses showed up at my door and were swiftly sent on their way. What I wonder is this: is December 26th the most successful proselytizing day of the year for Jehovah’s Witnesses? Say you have yet another lousy Christmas with vile, backstabbing relatives and their snotty little children, neglecting none of the family’s ritual humiliations of the season. Fa la la. Then the very next day the Jehovah’s Witnesses show up on your porch. You can hardly help but think, “Hey. Huh. On the one hand… but on the other hand, I’d never have to go through that Christmas shit again.” Seriously, I wonder if there’s a spike there.
Today’s crabbiness is brought to you by the fact that the furnace still doesn’t work. Maybe tomorrow. The romance of heating with wood is somewhat overstated. And it is still too dark out there. But I’m reading all of Transmetropolitan. You know, by Warren “Eat Bear Cocks In Hell, Godboy” Ellis. It never fails to cheer me.
on 31 Dec 2007 at 2:25 am 1.pencilears said …
We get the witnesses at work, I got a nice pamphlet to read on my break from them. (break from work not customers)
Personally, I’m in favor of any religion that encourages it’s members to wipe the crumbs and ketchup off their table, or at least I like them better than a lot of our patrons.
on 31 Dec 2007 at 9:57 am 2.Aim said …
You never fail to crack me the heck up. Thanks – I needed a bit of humor today!
We don’t typically get the JWs coming to our door – for one thing we live in what’s perceived as a crappy ‘hood (although we love it, and have fabulous neighbors and a sense of community) and we have our Mezuzah on the door, so I guess that helps too. It does not, however, stop the Mormons and the weird Evangelicals.
T once had a group of evangelical types take the scrolls out of the Mezuzah. What kind of messed up person does that?
on 31 Dec 2007 at 12:00 pm 3.Aim said …
Weird – I tried to reply and it got spam blocked. I dunno which word it was that I used that did it.
on 31 Dec 2007 at 12:33 pm 4.Cam Sculpin said …
Huh. Looks like there’s been a flood of spam from people at whatever.wordpress.com, and it got blacklisted. That should be fixed now.
This is the first time I’ve gotten Jehovah’s Witnesses at this house as far as I can remember. (And doesn’t that sentence sound like I’m talking about a species of carpenter ant?) Maybe the “no soliciting” sign helps. I wonder if they might not do better in a crappy ‘hood; we’re pretty snug and smug out here.
Took the scrolls out of the Mezuzah?! My jaw literally dropped. WTF, people?!