I had a visit from two elderly women Brethren or 7th Day Adventist types today.
I saw them walking down the road and being turned away at the doors of neighbours houses. I decided to invite them in for a cup of tea.
"Have you found Jesus?" one of them asked as I was rummaging in the pantry looking for biscuits.
"Yes" I replied "He was behind the sofa in the living room all the time."
Neither of them replied.
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Actually, I just made that up but some of it was true.
I was making coffee in the kitchen and saw the two old dames walking along the road towards our house. They did visit neighbours' houses and I assume were turned away or no-one was home. When they arrived at our driveway they sort of froze, conferred and walked past. I saw them find the neighbour's house on the other side unoccupied and heard the next door neighbour to that turn them away.
I was disappointed as I did intend offering them tea as I thought they might be tired and thirsty and in need of a cuppa and a toilet break. I also wanted to find out about them and their beliefs figuring that it would make for good blog post material. The Curmudgeons Inc.ⓒ, unlike the other blogs, conduct thorough research before writing posts believing that truth and exactitude is essential. This was not to be unfortunately.
I told The Old Girl, who was working in her office and she was flabbergasted, wanting to know why I'd want to invite the nutters in (her words not mine). I told her that I was interested in listening to them but, if they banged on too long would introduce her to them which would have given them short shrift. She wasn't surprised that they didn't come up to our door. "They must know that we're atheists" she said. This made me wonder - do we have some sort of aura around our house that keeps religious people away? I notice that children at Halloween no longer approach our house as well. It would be good if this power could be harnessed so as to keep cold-callers and unwanted visitors away.
It doesn't bode well for selling the house though.
3 comments:
I think they might have heard about your jokes. Things like that get around fast.
Are you asleep already, older guy?
Why would you ay that?
Do you want a list of things I've been doing?
Who do you think you are - Elon Musk and Donald Trump?
OK, here's what I've been doing:
- Laundry - washing clothes, hanging out washing and bringing it in.
- Mowing the lawn (before hanging out the washing).
- Preparing a salmon and zucchini pie which I've just put in the oven.
- Done an hour and a half exercises in the home gym (while watching Tipping Point and YouTube news on TV.
- Opening and drinking a glass of(so far) of Tipping Point chardonnay.
I've been busy. Sheesh!
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