Comments on: No solicitors and religious bigots please!

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:44:25 +0000

Giving them a measly dollar to keep you away from being on the front cover of tomorrows newspaper? Any sane person would do the exact same thing…

I always pretend I’m not home. If they needed to speak to me about something I expect them to throw a note in my letter box

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:06:28 +0000

I felt threatened. I wouldn’t want to find out what would happen if I didn’t give him the dollar, or worse, punched him in the nads.

Like I said before, they were two guys. Not kids, guys, probably in their last year of high school.

One of them used intimidation and aggressiveness to get their dollar. I don’t have a problem with giving them a dollar if it’s my ticket to not getting my whole purse stolen or to not get my ass kicked.

By: j

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0000

I can’t believe you gave that guy a dollar. You should have punched him in the nads.

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:50:40 +0000

Also, about the guy forcing you to give him a dollar is pretty f*ing lame. I would’ve told those punks to get off of my property or else I’m calling LAPD on your asses. Ha!

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:48:17 +0000

As a New Yorker, most people don’t sell door to door they take it to the crowded trains to ask people to buy candy for their ” junior high school or high school basketball teams”. I don’t mind them trying to make a buck with selling candy [as oppose to drugs or getting into trouble] but I wish those who look too old to be in jhs or hs would tell the truth and say its for themselves.

Yeah, the overzealous religious people scare the shit out of me. I just do the typical New Yorker thing and walk away, say I’m not interested or just say I’m already saved. Too bad I can’t do the same thing when the Jahovah’s Witnesses are ringing my doorbell for twenty minutes when I’m off of school for a holiday.

By: Vief

Vief — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:05:15 +0000

Oh mannn, I hate those kind of people too. One time I had an argument with some guy who tried to convince me that the Bible is always right and how it was so contemporary. How we shouldn’t love our machines and brands and such. I tried to tell him there’s a passage that tells people not to eat shrimp and he was like “…what?”
Then I asked him how he could possibly *know* God had created man, and he said “WELL, it’s right here!” and continued to quote the Bible. Ha ha ha ha. It was so useless, but still kind of entertaining because I kept giving him arguments that he didn’t have good comebacks for.
I have no problem with people who want to be religious, as long as they don’t force their religion on me. Simple as that!

That guy was absolutely lame for threatening you though. And for a dollar?! Wtf.