True story, I took a nursing job up in Spokane and bought a small house way out Sprague Ave way out by Vera Dale and across from the old Radio Shack. My house stood off the road by at least 250′ and with that a long driveway. It seemed at least every other Saturday the damn witnesses would knock on my door to cajole me into joining their cult and I was polite and said I wasn’t interested and please take my address off of their sales route. I worked graveyard shift and they would invariably wake my ass up from an exhausted sleep(12 hour shifts). One Saturday after getting a few hours of sleep had to wake up as I had an appointment that day. I was up and naked as the day I was born. I walked to the front door waiting for them to ring my doorbell. I opened it in my full glory! I was younger and built like an Adonis and invited this large gaggle of women in and the two men that were escorting them into my living room. They were aghast, but I am sure a few of the ladies appreciated the sight… I told them this was going to be the only chance to convert me and if they failed this then the next step was to get a restraining order from the Sheriff. They left posthaste and I was never bothered by them again. I did have a No-Trespassing sign made up listed all the denominations the did door to door selling were not welcome and would be dealt harshly.
Back in the 70’s I had a visit from the Witlesses. They stopped at the farm, came through the yard gate up to the house. The red headed freckled girl in an ankle length dress they apparently were training asked me as I came to the door “Aren’t you worried about all the people who would die in a nuclear ware?” I replied that half the world’s population died from the Black Death and the population rebounded. She said “I never thought of that” and her companions virtually dragged her back to their car and I’m not sure her feet ever touched the ground before she was back in the car. Time for re-programming I guess.
My wife has a very thorough knowledge of the Bible.
She doesn’t force it on anybody and she isn’t a Holy Roller but she did, and still does, study her Bible much more than I do.
The Jehovahs no longer come to our house, we must be on the list.
She usually lets them ask one question and she answers it and then she gets her turn.
They either can’t answer OR they don’t want to answer.
She has a very calm demeanor but they always look beat down during the retreat.
She doesn’t EVER let them leave without holding out her hand and starting a Christian prayer for them to help them see the truth.
They cornered me in my front yard while I was washing my pickup. They handed me a flyer, and fled, when I opened a beer.