Being Proselytized

[Rusty]

So, I took the bus this morning. It was stinky. It was crowded. It was full of people who were disgusted with each other. That’s nothing new – the train’s the same way. The new element was the preaching. There was a little old lady preaching to the masses. In Spanish. For an hour. Not yelling loud enough to get kicked off the bus (apparently), but loud enough that I had to turn the i-pod up to what would usually be a painful level. Now that’s a dirty trick. If someone comes to your door, you can close it. If they approach you on the street, you can walk away. But if you get off the bus and wait for the next one, you’ll get to work fifteen or twenty minutes later than you intended. And I can’t tell a little old lady to sit down and shut up. I can’t. So, what did I take from this? …………I hate little old ladies.

[smetchie]

well at least you had your ipod!! But you're right. That's a dirty trick.

[Kasia]

I'm so glad nothing like that ever happened to me. Yapping for an hour? God! That's awful.

[Donitello]

Atta girl, Kasia. Bypass the old lady and take your complaint right to Management.

[[deleted user]]

Yapping for an hour.....

Hhmmpph. Just like a woman.

(runs for cover)

[[deleted user]]

The woman was no doubt annoying, but she was just doing what she was called to do! I really like this little woman. I probably would have turned my ipod up, too, but I admire people who forsake dignity for their beliefs.

[Donitello]

What if their belief is that you can bring people to God by lowering their quality of life?

[smetchie]

I talked to some Mormons by my mailbox for 10 minutes because one of them was really really cute. I told them it was OK if they wanted to stop by and talk to me again sometime but the next time I saw them in my neighborhood the tall one had a different NOTcute sidekick with him. That's a dirty trick too. Bait and switch I think they call that, don't they? But the joke's on them because I was on my way out, so there!

[Lori]

I like to start up conversations with the jesus freaks and point out the flaws in their theories. If Adam and Eve were the only people God created, how the hell do we now have a population of billions? UHM.... incest, that's how! Ewwwwww...

[Donitello]

Gretchen wrote: "But the joke's on them because I was on my way out, so there! "

You really play hardball, don't you? I like that in a gal.

[Tom]

But incest was ok back then, Lori! You see, the biblican prohibition against incest is to protect us from inbreeding and harmful genetic mutations. But Adam and Eve were created genetically perfect, thus their offspring were genetically perfect, so they didn't have to worry about that sort of thing. At that time, before the flood, there was a thick canopy of cloud cover (since it had never rained, before the flood) which screened out harmful UV rays that caused mutations. So it was only after the flood that incest became a problem.


The earth is flat, too.

[smetchie]

...and Behemoth was a dinosaur.

[Tom]

I know how to speel, honest! It's just that it's hard sometimes, when you've got an affectionate cat in your lap.

[Georg]

"But Adam and Eve were created genetically perfect, thus their offspring were genetically perfect..."

Well, not quite. In my copy of the book of books, Abel had an unhealthy affection for furred animals and Cain, well, didn't he have this mark of Cain (and some bad habits)?