Well something new happened today. A Jahova's Witness came to my door, and tried to get me to convert. Even after I told her I was perfectly happy being an agnostic and had no desire to convert. Multiple times. It was hard to try to be polite when she just wouldn't listen. Eventually I just lied and said I'd think about it to get her to leave.

So what sort of annoying people have you sluggites ever found at your doors?

No one annoying has come to our door, but I almost got a job as one of those annoying people. I was going to be a canvasser for an environmental organization. Does that count? Oh, and our annoying neighbor once slammed on our door becaseu she turned the tv on real loud so my dad pounded on the wall for her to turn it down. Apparently he was in no way correct for his request.

Once a month the milkman give my mom a child support check, dunno that that's all about...

Besides that, the worst we usually get is twice a year, floods of children going door-to-door selling "Worlds Finest Chocolate" bars. They've gone up 50 cents since I was selling them, and they taste the same. I think all of them were made in 1971, they just flashfroze them until they need to ship them to the kids.

We put up a sign saying:
'You may be preaching,
You may be selling,
But we're not buying,
And we're not listening.
Please don't come to the door.'

Never had any problems after that. My dad has also told various phone solicitors that wanted to send people around that we have:
Several vicious dogs
Barbed Wire fences
Attack Gerbils in the mailbox

I was never bothered by telemarketers. But that is probably because my phone number is unlisted in order to deter them.

Oh, M_P, that sign is fricken' sweet.

I dunno, I always like girl scout cookies.

Especially those dark mint ones... I can go through an entire box.

That said, thankfully around here I have yet to see a single Jehovah's Witness.

I once was trapped in a plane full of teenage evangelicals on their way to Hong Kong to spread their missionary zeal. One of them shrugged off his religion condemning Gandhi to eternal torment as a "minor detail". That was an interesting 18 hours....

A couple of Mormons came to the door once when I was living with my brother in Florida.

They started their spiel and I said, "Not worth your time guys."

"You can redeem this jesus card for a video." (Not what they actually said, but it ws a postcard thing with a bad picture of Jesus on the front that you could mail off for a video about Mormoni)

"Thanks. Have a good one."
/me shut the door.

We put the jesus card on our keggerator.

It's really easy to get rid of door to door types. Just say "No thanks" and shut the door. Don't respond meaningfully, don't try to argue; that just encourages them.

You could do like the guy in NY times magazine. Tell them you converted away. (apostate?)

We keep a chainsaw right next to the door for a reason.

So far it's worked.

We got Mormons once when I was growing up, complete with the black pants white shirt black tie thing.

My father invited them in and proceeded to debate with them for three hours. Although we saw them in the neighborhood they never dropped by again.

everytime some religious guy comes to the door and i say "i'm jewish", wich i am. they then act like someone in my family died after that. their face gets all scrunched up like they are pouting and then say "Oh, i'm sorry" its pretty insulting really, i just find it weird that every damn one of them do it no matter what they r preaching. they get pretty upset though when u tell them, "Thats exactly what the (enter religious denomination here) said"

My friend had a good comeback line. When door-to-door religion salesmen say "Hi, I represent the Church of Blah", you reply "Hi, nice to meet you! I represent the other side." Helps if you look scary too.

You gotta wonder about the success rate of such things. I mean, knocking on people's doors and bugging them has got to be one of the least successful methods of convincing people of the benefits of your religion.

The mormon religion is suppose to be the fastest growing in the US. So i guess it does.

Is that because they successfully convert people or because they seem to have about eight children each?