Rural living is great for privacy, or is it?

[dmccarty]

This thread made me laugh! :thumbsup:

Going to jinx myself but the only time I have had JW's visiting my abode was decades ago in a state far, far away. I made the mistake of answering the door and politely talking to them before I could escape. The put us on a list because they kept returning but I would not open the door. :laughing: I don't remember ever being bothered by them anywhere else.

I have seen the Morman Twins running around frequently but I have never been visited. Saw some in our county a few years ago in the summer time. They looked miserable in the heat and walking in the weeds and tall grass along the road. No side walk so they had to walk along the road. I suspect they picked up more than one Spawn of the Devil, aka, the ticks and chiggers. It was prime tick and chigger season and no way would I have walked in that grass and tall weeds without some chemical spray.

We have a couple of people trespass each year.

A few days ago a FedEx driver showed up and he knew he was lost. :laughing: Don't consider him a trespasser though. He mentioned the road he was looking for and it was ringing a bell but nobody was answering in my head. :shocked: Talked with him a bit and he said he was sorry for driving up the road and driveway. :thumbsup: I felt real bad because once he left, I finally remembered how to get to the road he was trying to find. This happened a few years ago when a semi drove up looking for the same road. The guy was delivering a bunch of trusses. I told him he could leave the trusses if he wanted. After he left, the danged light bulb went on and I remembered the road he was trying to find.

The last true trespasser was an idiot in a pickup truck towing a bass boat. He drove up our road at a high rate of speed after leaving the paved road, hitting gravel, passing the sign that said end of state road, driving past the gate with multiple no trespass signs AND driving up hill. :shocked: I was in the shower and heard him hauling fanny up the road so I got out of the shower to see who was arriving at the house. It was pretty obvious that this idiot was very lost but I figured he would backup in the turning circle in FRONT of the house. But no. He continued to show his genius and drove to the back of the house before he figured out that he was at the top of a hill and there was no place to launch his expensive bass boat. :shocked:

Now this geographical genius could have turned around in the back of the house. Plenty of gravel to do so. Or he could use the turning circle in front of the house. But no. This mental giant backs his #$%^&*( boat trailer into an area my wife has been planting things. I went out in the porch in my towel and started to discuss his intellect. Now, I was nice and did not bring his momma into the discussion nor his parentage but the conversation did address his inability to navigate, back up a trailer and find a boat ramp at the top of a hill. The ding bat was dumb enough to get out of the truck and try to be a smarty pants but I strongly encourage him to get back in the vehicle and LEAVE now. Which he did. Being lost like that was sad, but dang, it do not drive into someone's grass and plantings. Danged idiot.

Later,
Dan

 

[Alien]

Oh man, I wish I had the literary genius of some of you guys. Very enjoyable confessions throughout this thread. :laughing:

 

[Retiredguy2]

Oh man, I wish I had the literary genius of some of you guys. Very enjoyable confessions throughout this thread. :laughing:

BINGO...thanks for letting us some of us spill our guts here. BTW I am only a high school graduate who drove a truck and swung a hammer for 35 years so I wonder where my "literary genius" popped up....

 

[TractorGuy]

Only other visitor I can think of was the aerial photo guy wanting me to pay $200 for a picture he took of my place. Sent him packing as well.

I forgot about that guy. One of those approached me back in the 80s. He handed me the picture and asked if I would like to purchase it. I ripped it into four pieces and informed him never to violate my privacy again.

 

[Industrial Toys]

They would never sell those pictures here. Only offer to make an expensive painting out of it. Our place is too spread out for one picture anyway.

 

[uglyboywith11fingers]

BINGO...thanks for letting us some of us spill our guts here. BTW I am only a high school graduate who drove a truck and swung a hammer for 35 years so I wonder where my "literary genius" popped up....

the 'school of hard knocks' makes a man wiser than does any institute of higher learning. :2cents:

Pete

 

[daugen]

JW's don't care how smart you are...they want to get in your door and make a convert. Even when I said I was a lifelong member
of my particular religion and was very happy in my beliefs, they launched into a canned presentation.
Maybe some kind of suffering is required in their faith that they have to do this, I would sure be suffering....
probably around the ankle from some big dog.
A lot of folks around here are serious Baptists; have to wonder what kind of reception they get there.

All the JW's who came to my door were very well dressed, and polite. But you had to say no twice, and I think that's what
gripes most of us.

I wonder if the JW's talk to the Aborigines in Australia...

In my own faith there is a large division of members who are proudly proselytizers, mostly doing missionary work in
Africa and other third world countries. Mostly taking a Conservative sin and salvation approach to Christianity, which seems to
maintain popularity. My background was elsewhere, since the age of 5 I had/have never heard the word Sin used in Meeting.
Always Love. A very different orientation to Christianity which makes for some interesting conversations with the Bible Belt locals, particularly those who feel they have been born again. And who more often than not feel threatened by what I believe in. Or are convinced I'm headed down instead of up... My feeling is believe in whatever works for you, if it makes you a better human being, with a true
moral center. And if good people are knocking on my door, better than bad people...
Annoying is not bad...bad is when they pass your No Soliciting/No Trespassing signs.
You didn't put up that sign for its decorating appeal.

 

[Alien]

Would this be subtle enough?

 

[tjkubota93]

Last time I had some stupid cult members pull their pos car down my drive they argued when I told them it was against the law in the city that just annexed us to solicit. I stood in front of their car so they couldn't leave and called the police. They searched their car AND the cult leader's car who had shown up to defend them and told them not to come back.

 

[joecoin]

Had a go around with a vacuum salesman. I wasn't doing anything important and after he introduced himself I discoverd taht we were very distant cousins from the same town way back when. I let him give my the 'dirt on rug' - 'look at how good it cleans up", etc. quoted me an outrageouse price. refused, "I'll talk to the boss", goes out comes back and cuts the price by about a 1/4 - still way over market. Nope, okay, I'll talkd to the boss...etc. after 4 reps he had the price down to half what he first quoted and still higher than one in a store. I managed to kill two hours of his time and saved at least one neighbor being bothered by him.

We are way back off the road, you gotta work hard to get to my door. Been here 33 years. I've had one set of JW's who I ran off, the Kirby salesman who gave me some laundry detergent and paper towels for my time, and the local high school band boosters selling candy.

I have heard people knocking a the door but didn't bother to see who it was, they always leave after knocking for three times.