Religious Door Knockers

Lizzle and Janey, I got that one too. And I think wrx did as well (they go on about winning free holidays, then proceed to ask for credit card details - if you listen long enough its basically about 'winning' the opportunity to purchase a discount accommodation card for Aussie).

They got the polite 'oh so you're not actually giving me anything for free? no? ok then goodbye and don't call back'

I got that accomodation one too!
wasn't till they started going on about credit cards and costs that I thought wtf!
I just hung up

I'm having a BIG problem with them at the moment. I dont know what it is really. I had a lovely JW lady visiting me for a while, she knew I wasnt interested but would come have a cup of tea without preaching anything to me which was good. She's since moved away and it must be bloody free-for-all! Last week I had 8, yes EIGHT seperate JW visitors come to my door. We have a sign on the front gate which clearly states 'No religious callers please.' and a 'warning, dog bites' sign, yet they STILL come! I know they're only doing what they believe is right, and that's fine because thats the way they choose to live their lives, but when you have a sign like the said above sign and the 3 biting dogs, you'd think they'd think 'Hmm... maybe we'll give this house a miss!' I've rung the local Kingdom Hall to let them know and they actually said they'd sort something out for us! Props to them really :D

Mormons on the other hand.. I'll be setting land mines for them shortly (PLEASE dont be offended if you are one) I have a pair of really sexy american mormon guys that come once a fortnight - they get the land mine treatment because they walk around the house looking in all the windows to make sure no-one is actually home. If the car is in the driveway, they stand and ring the doorbell until someone gives up and goes to the door. They did this when Thomas was brand new and got the biggest mouthful of abuse i've ever given ANYONE. Gosh. Yet they still come. They've even got the hose before.

Whoever suggested the baby on the boob trick - done that with a sky salesman (about 18 years old from the looks of him). Even when Daniel took himself off the boob and started looking around (and therefore my boob was flashing), it didn't stop his speel. It took a few "excuse me, I'm feeding my son, I have to go" attempts before he got the message.

The Kirby people drive me nuts!!! Especially when they don't take no for an answer and beg to vaccum our carpet. Even pointing out we have wooden floors doesn't work!!

We also had the holiday people call us, it was back when I was still working in travel, she couldn't seem to understand that I didn't want a discount holiday card when I flew for stuff all, got into most theme parks free or sodding cheap and got very good deals on accommodation. Yeah I really needed a discount holiday card.Pffffffffffft.

I had a friend' sister who was a SAHM to two young children, her DH worked long hours and she was struggling with the two young kids and I think lonely. Some JW's came and yelled at them to f*** off. She shut the door and then felt so guilty she opened the door, apologised and then invited them in. She has been a JW ever since. So I guess it does work sometimes

We've been getting a heap of survey/telemarketers ring lately....and we're unlisted also. The best one we had was a few years ago, my phone account was under my Dad's name, and it was also unlisted.   American Express rang and asked to speak to my dad, BY NAME....and when I asked how they got the number, they said the phone book, to which I promptly told them they were full of s**t because it was an unlisted number, XXXX didn't live there, nor had he ever lived there, and nor would he ever live there in the future. Then I called Telecom and complained, because it was an unlisted number for a reason.

We don't get many religious callers, although they seem to come about 8am on a Saturday morning (WTF!!)....so everytime I got sucked in, I was in my dressing gown and just stuck my head out the door and said "sorry not interested". One guy tried to get me talking but I just shut the door.

When they come to my door. I let them attempt to tell me their little speech and then go yeah that's great and I get what you are saying, I am personally a Christian and happy to keep being a Christian, thanks for your visit, but I am happy to stick to Christianity.

i like my religious door knocker! he comes every now and then and we have a chat about the kids, the economy, weather, anything else topical... then he leaves me a mag or two and sometimes he reads a bit of scripture - if he remembers. i had some others come round and told them i already had a guy i liked and prefered him, thank you!

i own dead sea moisturiser

other telemarketers get "not interested thanks", and hung up on.