You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[Cthulhu]

Jehovah witnesses 

I hate them, hate them, hate them, hate em. They've been harrasing me at home for about 3 years now. I work from home and I park my car in the street so they know when I'm home.

Next time they come I'm thinking of telling them I'm busy and if they'll kindly give me their address I'll stop by. When they no, I'll say is it because you don't want people buggin you at home. They'll say yes. Then I'll say, now you know how I feel and slam the door on them.

Have you tried answering the door naked? Or maybe with guns? Or both?

[Nightowl]

Need a sign that reads "Forget the dog, beware of the owner"

[Flick James]

Jehovah witnesses 

I hate them, hate them, hate them, hate em. They've been harrasing me at home for about 3 years now. I work from home and I park my car in the street so they know when I'm home.

Next time they come I'm thinking of telling them I'm busy and if they'll kindly give me their address I'll stop by. When they no, I'll say is it because you don't want people buggin you at home. They'll say yes. Then I'll say, now you know how I feel and slam the door on them.

Have you tried answering the door naked? Or maybe with guns? Or both?

Cthulu has the right idea. I'm serious, if you want to get rid of them, you need to invite them in and give them a good reason to never come back. It's the only way. My Dad lived in Idaho Falls for a few years, and would get visited by Mormons constantly. He would invite them in, offer them beer, coffee, cigarettes. Eventually they stopped coming.

[AndyC]

Jehovah witnesses 

I hate them, hate them, hate them, hate em. They've been harrasing me at home for about 3 years now. I work from home and I park my car in the street so they know when I'm home.

Next time they come I'm thinking of telling them I'm busy and if they'll kindly give me their address I'll stop by. When they no, I'll say is it because you don't want people buggin you at home. They'll say yes. Then I'll say, now you know how I feel and slam the door on them.

Have you tried answering the door naked? Or maybe with guns? Or both?

Cthulu has the right idea. I'm serious, if you want to get rid of them, you need to invite them in and give them a good reason to never come back. It's the only way. My Dad lived in Idaho Falls for a few years, and would get visited by Mormons constantly. He would invite them in, offer them beer, coffee, cigarettes. Eventually they stopped coming.

Flick's right. When I was maybe 20 or so, and still living at home, we used to get the JWs coming around. My mom, good Christian woman that she is, made the mistake of showing them hospitality and debating scripture with them, which just encouraged them. When I answered the door, I was rude, disrespectful, belligerent and downright mean. And I'm a big guy; I can be quite intimidating when I want to be, and even when I don't. If I didn't feel like playing with them, I'd open the door, see who it was, say "Aw sh!t" and slam it right back in their faces. Didn't take long for them to get the message and stop coming around.

I didn't really appreciate how effectively I'd deterred them until I happened to be sitting outside when they came along. They were going door-to-door, until they got to our house. They walked down the neighbour's driveway, walked on the street past our house (occasionally glancing my way), and back up to the neighbour on the other side. They were afraid to set foot on our property.

Politely send them away, and they'll just keep trying. Make them dread talking to you, and you'll never see them again.

[bob]

Jehovah witnesses 

I hate them, hate them, hate them, hate em. They've been harrasing me at home for about 3 years now. I work from home and I park my car in the street so they know when I'm home.

Next time they come I'm thinking of telling them I'm busy and if they'll kindly give me their address I'll stop by. When they no, I'll say is it because you don't want people buggin you at home. They'll say yes. Then I'll say, now you know how I feel and slam the door on them.

Have you tried answering the door naked? Or maybe with guns? Or both?

Cthulu has the right idea. I'm serious, if you want to get rid of them, you need to invite them in and give them a good reason to never come back. It's the only way. My Dad lived in Idaho Falls for a few years, and would get visited by Mormons constantly. He would invite them in, offer them beer, coffee, cigarettes. Eventually they stopped coming.

Flick's right. When I was maybe 20 or so, and still living at home, we used to get the JWs coming around. My mom, good Christian woman that she is, made the mistake of showing them hospitality and debating scripture with them, which just encouraged them. When I answered the door, I was rude, disrespectful, belligerent and downright mean. And I'm a big guy; I can be quite intimidating when I want to be, and even when I don't. If I didn't feel like playing with them, I'd open the door, see who it was, say "Aw sh!t" and slam it right back in their faces. Didn't take long for them to get the message and stop coming around.

I didn't really appreciate how effectively I'd deterred them until I happened to be sitting outside when they came along. They were going door-to-door, until they got to our house. They walked down the neighbour's driveway, walked on the street past our house (occasionally glancing my way), and back up to the neighbour on the other side. They were afraid to set foot on our property.

Politely send them away, and they'll just keep trying. Make them dread talking to you, and you'll never see them again.

My other idea what to tell them when they come back is that I'm a satanist (totally false). I got the idea after seeing Rosemary's Baby. I think a shocking statement like that would either get them to leave me alone or either make them come back in greater numbers.

[AndyC]

All you need is to be sufficiently unpleasant person to talk to, and they'll pass you by. I also might have shown a certain relish in mistreating the JWs, so they could be pretty sure they weren't going to soften me up. Don't know if their church has any policy about avoiding people who seem especially hostile, or if the canvassers themselves just skipped my house out of their own discomfort, but the result was I never had to deal with them again for years afterward.

Another trick I used to use was to peek through the curtains, either on the door itself or the window beside it, and once I was sure they'd seen me, I'd just duck back in and not answer the door.

When they started avoiding my house like the plague, I was pretty proud of myself, but also disappointed, because their visits did actually become a lot of fun for me.

[Psycho Circus]

I used to get JW's and some other smiley church canvassers harassing me in the street in town, until I started coming out with these really obscene, sexually explicit tales of how I made sweet love to Satan nightly.

Never bothered me again... 

[Nightowl]

Sorry for making this thread so religious 

[AndyC]

Sorry for making this thread so religious 

For me, JWs fall more under the category of pushy door-to-door solicitation than religion, so don't worry about it.

[El Misfit]

People who spell stuff badly, as in kewl instead of cool; phail instead of fail, this really irritates me because they are basic words that can't be written properly and is just one big mind f**k!
Also, what's with people who wants to be perfect? Isn't that just a little too much of being a misfit in a since? I AM a misfit and damn proud of it, but the former misfit I used isn't the latter misfit I consider myself to be.

[Nightowl]

Summer. Pollen,insects,heat,sweating...i hate it. I can't wait to winter comes around.

[indianasmith]

The easiest way (for me) to deal with Jehovah's Witnesses is to simply go through the Bible, point-by-point, and show them how totally un-Scriptural their belief system is.  They usually send out one veteran and one new convert; they don't want their newbies to doubt the infallibility of their system, so they never come back!

[Nightowl]

People who post themselves playing cover songs on youtube.

[El Misfit]

trying to get some souls in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.

[Psycho Circus]

People who post themselves playing cover songs on youtube.

YES! I find that totally cringeworthy. Like, "hey look at me, listen to me, like me, like me oh please god!"