I don't like the doorbell.

[spatch]

Every time one side of the brain suggests something like a nice weatherproof porch cam to see exactly who it is downstairs ringing the doorbell, before we throw on a pair of pants and trudge down from the third floor only to discover it's a nice pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who'd very much like us to read their fine magazine, the other side of the brain rejects the idea as giving in too much to the hermit mindset and not promoting healthy human-human talky-talky interaction and the like.

Even if this morning the doorbell did wake me up and I did throw on a pair of pants and did trudge down from the third floor, only to discover it was a nice pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who'd very much like me to read their fine magazine, causing me to very politely mumble "Nothankyou, nothankyou" through half-open eyelids (didn't even make eye contact! Go me) before shutting the door and going back upstairs.

Next time when the doorbell rings I'm sending the cat.

Comments

[minkrose]

I hear that if you answer the door naked, they don't come back. buuut you'd probably want that webcam before you start trying that.

and people wonder why i live in a dorm. less solicitation!

[katre50.livejournal.com]

Duchess keeps saying that we need to train Lindy to answer the door. If I've told her once, I've told her a hundred times: it won't work, because CATS DON'T HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS.

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

They actually rang your bell? I've never had any religious group ring my bell in the entire time I've lived in this house, including this morning.

I thought that was odd, but ringing one bell and not the other in the same house seems odder yet.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

Just in case you were wondering, wearing a big gay t-shirt will not discourage their return.

[betweenstations.livejournal.com]

Abbie is impressionable and might become a Witness.
Send Martha.

[violacat.livejournal.com]

I don't think that would work so well with my cats, especially if the Witnesses had gooshyfood.

Loki: Mreh. Feed me. OK. What?
Mirmir: PET ME LOVE ME PET ME MORE PURRPURRPURRPURR

I hate to think what they'd get themselves into.

[luckimunki.livejournal.com]

This might be the time to go down to the local printshop and print up a stack of your own magazine to offer to the Witnesses when they show up. And don't forget to mail me a copy.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

The last time a Witnesses came to my door I told the woman and her 10-year-old daughter that I couldn't see myself joining a religion whose followers let their children die in the emergency room for want of a blood transfusion.

She didn't take that very well. And she didn't come back either.

(A law actually had to be passed to allow doctors to transfuse kids if needed to save their lives despite parental wishes. There's some verse about blood that they interpret very oddly.)