Door to Door

[Pike]

You know, I have never seen so many salespeople as I did when I went to the UK. There were people walking around on the street trying to sell you stuff and we don't get that where I'm from!

[Bubba]

When walking down through my town centre basically you just have to make sure you don't make eye contact with any of this salespeople! Just look at the floor or a nice bird in the sky

I have adopted the opposite strategy now. I just stare them in the eyes as I walk right past whilst ignoring their questions.

I am never bothered by door-to-door sales people... mainly because I never answer my door. They even see me sat on my couch through the window when they come to the door. I still ignore them.

[Aelitalily]

I am never bothered by door-to-door sales people... mainly because I never answer my door. They even see me sat on my couch through the window when they come to the door. I still ignore them.

When I did my own stint doing door to door sales, we called people like that "Ninjas" - we knew someone was inside, pretending not be home - although in your case it would be a little different - maybe like a "Bad Ninja" xD

[Iceglow]

I recently had a relatively older Jehovah's Witness come knocking on my day off. I decided to simply roll with my usual response to religion and see how it went. The conversation was pretty amazing really, it went a lot like this:

Me: "Hi"

Him: "Do you have a moment to discuss religion sir"

Me: "Mmm, actually yeah I do, I'm not working today so have all the time in the world to discuss the biggest cause of war since time began."

Him: "That's a pretty negative view point but perhaps it's a justified one. After all there are so many religions out there today, and many don't even know what their holy scriptures say."

Me: "I must say, that's a pretty bold opening gambit, because it seems to me that no one knows what their religious scriptures say, After all, most religions, be they Christian based, Judaic based or Islam based and dare I say Polytheistic based religions such as Hinduism and Sikhism all state one simple tenet: Peace and good will to all fellow men. Or rather, peace and goodwill to all fellow men so long as you worship what I worship otherwise I get to kill you."

Him: "Ah, but not all do"

Me: "Well I'll grant you Buddhism doesn't. But please don't try telling me that the Bible doesn't indicate that his is ok behaviour or that the Qu'ran doesn't because frankly, if there wasn't some way of interpreting these holy books in that sense then where have people for the past 2000 years been getting the idea that they do. I mean sure, we're talking about a minority in this day and age. Yet historically, we're looking at wars which if humanity wasn't dumb enough to ignore the past like it has in the past 150 years, we'd be on World War 8? Or so by now when you count the scope and scale of the crusades in modern terms."

Him: "Well perhaps you have a point there, but what about all the good religion has done for man. Look at circumcision, the bible says to do so on the 8th day, we now know that the bloods clotting factor is at it's highest on the 8th day so if you're going to do any snipping then would be the ideal time."

Me: "Really, we're going from global scale warfare, to genital mutilation and this is your point on how much religion has done for us? How many thousands of babies died because the Rabbi cutting their foreskins off weren't clean enough or used a dirty knife? How many caught diseases based on the practice that the Rabbi should suck on the penis to stop the bleeding? Science has proven that genital mutilation both on men and women is a pointless exercise. Furthermore, it's science what has made it safe for that barbaric practice to continue."

Him: "You bandy science around there like it is a mystical power. Do you not think science is itself a religion?"

Me: "As in the church of Scientology? Well frankly their beliefs are a little more wacko than that, they believe in an all powerful Alien known as Xenu but hey I'll buy in to it for a second: If Science is a religion, it's doing a better job of proving itself than Christianity."

Him: "But what gives science it's power? Surely God."

Me: "God said in the bible that the followers of him would not have to fear disease or starvation. Well I'm sure that there's been hundreds if not thousands or even millions of Christians world wide who have starved to death or died of disease. Surely God would have saved them. In contrast the Aesir God Odin promised there would be no more frost giants... I haven't seen any frost giants around lately have you?"

Him: "Surely that's just being silly though..."

Me: "So because I point out that a God claimed something around 2 - 3 thousand years ago and that in this day and age we can prove that he is right that there are no Frost Giants but it's not something your God stated I'm being silly now? What makes the idea of Odin being real and his status as a God any more ridiculous than the Christian idea of God? Is it science? Well if it's science that proves this how do you explain that the Old Testament claims the earth is 6000 years old and made in the space of a week. How can you defend that in the face of fossils that you can go and touch, go and view in Natural History Museums globally. Let's not even get me started on how the earth was magically made in a perfect 7 day week despite this being a man made construct to measure time and at the time of the bible events a week being longer and a year being 10 months according to the calendar of the time."

Him: "Well perhaps I could leave this book with you. Maybe help you re-evaluate your perspective on religion."

Me: "Well, if you do, you can find it in the recycling bin within the next 10 seconds. So how about you just hold on to that"

Him: "Ok, good day to you sir."

I saw him knocking on doors again about a fortnight later with members of his community, strangely there wasn't any knocks on my front door!

[Night Fury]

I did the charity door-to-door for like.. 3 days.

Guys, don't give them attention. This is an industry that needs to stop, the workers are exploited and so are the people who sign up. Basically, when someone signed up for $30 pm to the charity, our company got $200... that's like 6 months of their donation straight into our pocket. It was wrong, and these workers don't get an hourly wage most of the time... It's just wrong! If you want to give to charity do it online and not through the direct marketers.