Quote: Tim Walker @ November 16 2009, 8:07 PM GMTTim just heard the doorbell ring. He opened the front door to find a young man collecting for the 'Dogs' Trust'...
YOUNG MAN: Hello, my name's Dan, I'm collecting for the Dogs' Trust.
ME: Right.
YOUNG MAN: So... do you like dogs?
ME: Not really.
YOUNG MAN: OK then, good night.Then he left.
Sounds like my run-in with the Jehovah's witnesses at my front door the other day.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 16 2009, 11:10 PM GMTSounds like my run-in with the Jehovah's witnesses at my front door the other day.
People who come uninvited to your door just give up so easily thesedays. 
The 2 young guys asked me if I was familiar with their religion and I said, "I know you peddle it door to door."
They said thank you and left.
Quote: Moonstone @ November 16 2009, 6:10 PM GMTI've been leaving my curtains open for years and no-one's bothered watching me yet
Ditto!
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 16 2009, 8:07 PM GMTTim just heard the doorbell ring. He opened the front door to find a young man collecting for the 'Dogs' Trust'...
YOUNG MAN: Hello, my name's Dan, I'm collecting for the Dogs' Trust.
ME: Right.
YOUNG MAN: So... do you like dogs?
ME: Not really.
YOUNG MAN: OK then, good night.Then he left.
Ah, bless.
Quote: bigfella @ November 16 2009, 10:39 PM GMTStill so colddddddddddddddddd...
and is putting off going to bed because he something very unpleasent to do before he gets in there!
Tell us bigfella!
Quote: Aaron @ November 16 2009, 11:28 PM GMTAh, bless.
He wasn't 10! He was in his twenties, easily.
I didn't say anything nastily to him, I was just surprised how easily he gave up, that's all.
Still: bless. 
I feel really bad about it now.
An annoying mother to an annoying little girl in my daughter's class has been pushing a bunch of us to go to her house for coffee and I'm convinced that she's clinically insane. Well, she asked a bunch of us that were all together what religions we practiced and then she offered how she was a strict Mormon and did we have any questions for her, so as to create a dialogue on religious sensitivity. A couple moms asked very vague questions and she rattled off a carefully memorized answer. So then I chimed in and said, "I love the show Big Love? Do you watch it?" She's left us alone ever since.
Just had to Google that.
Yep, that should do it!
I'm about 10 years younger than the other moms in my daughter's class and they are fascinated by the fact that I'm a writer and that I tend to say what I think and that not much embarrasses me.
Told them about the college room-mate yet...?
Yes, they're the bunch I was talking about. Luckily "Mormon Mom" wasn't there horning in on the conversation.
Oops, I forgot! I was too busy focusing on the lesbian idea to concentrate on any subtext... 
