On my list

Telemarketers, Jehovah's Witnesses and pull-string pinatas are on my list today.

Telemarketers:
Every morning at 10am I get a call from unknown number/name. I pick up and hang up and they call back. I've left my phone off the hook, let the machine pick up etc. Today I picked up and waited for the click and someone to say hello (stupid machine dialers.. why isn't there a code verification for phones!?). Someone finally did say hello, in the background I could hear many others calling their victims, and I simply said "remove me from your list, goodbye" and hung up. I wouldn't mind people doing their jobs except we're on the donotcall.gov list! It burns me that political calls are exempt. Poo poo!

JW's:
Next, 30 minutes later as I am trying to work, my doorbell rings. I see it is someone I don't know or have time for and hear the rustle of paper. I look outside and the whole street is crawling with people in clusters.. men with men and women with women.

I open the door, see the publication "Awake" which is a Watchtower publication. I calmly and deliberately take the publication and walk to my big recycle bin. A group of them is clustered near my house and my neighbors house. They were frozen like deer in headlights. Seeing "a live one" come out of their target door is unprecedented. It's as if they don't know what to do... go about their business or try to corner me. Apparently my swagger suggests they should leave me the heck alone, but not before they see me recycle their "reading material". :o) I heard a slight "ooooh" from one woman as in "oh no she di-n't" Oh YES. I DID! And to make the point clearer I saw a water bottle on our fence (not sure how that got there) and recycled that too.

Also, if they really believe that only 144,000 people go to heaven, why recruit "competition" door to door? Of course, I've read that they believe that is the sweet spot number of the "elite" JW's who get to recreate earth at the "second coming" while the rest of the peons just get to be reborn back to the "glorified earth", what.. to start again? Sounds a bit like Hitler's "master race" to me .... or.. if you like we can put a Marxist spin on it... the bourgeoisie controlling the proletariats .. the haves vs the have-nots. Shouldn't a better earth be a unified and egalitarian earth? My sweet hubby probably would have invited them in were he here. He's always interested in hearing these things as an Atheist.

My mother, a fine woman, used to tell me "no one is better than you and you are no better than anyone else.... we all take our pants down to sh*t". Not just pretty words. They are wise and true.

I don't mind people having their personal beliefs, just don't come to my door or call my house uninvited to push your agenda. As Jack Nicholson said once "go sell crazy somewhere else... we're all stocked up here". Pfft.

Pull-string pinatas:
Who invented this? They should be tied to a string and bobbed up and down avoiding the stick. Pull-string pinatas are pointless.... as my friend Butterflychica says "may as well just give the kids the candy". Thwacking the heck out of a paper decorated cardboard or balloon to get to the third tier candy is FUN, PEOPLE! Why take away life's simple pleasures and replace them with politically correct, "safe fun". BLERG!