Of course you know the answer... How ironic. I swear, Jehovah's Witnesses only come when I'm hanging out in sweatpants and a tank top with no bra on. If I am wearing a bra, they don't come. However, no bra seems to make them come. Interesting.
So anyway, this morning I've got the flu or some stinking sinus infection, so I didn't go to church. I really wanted to go, because it's 'Trinity Sunday' and being my first year going through the church calendar, I was interested in hearing the sermon. The Trinity is the most incomprehensible part of mainstream Christianity, after all. But my husband convinced me to stay home and rest, so I've been reading the Bible on my own and in general thinking of all things religion, despite being sick.
So there is a knock, and I think, "Who the hell?" It's Kingdom Hall time - I know because it's 10 - 12 in the morning here (my parents are there in fact). So I ask who it is, and they say, "We're volunteers." Well, okay. So I open the door and it's a middle aged black woman and a middle aged white man. I say hello. I like helping volunteers.
They say, "Good morning. We're volunteers in your area looking for people who know ASL." I say, "Well, I'm an ESE teacher, and I will be learning ASL this summer to help one of my students. Why?"
They reply, "We'll, we have some materials and DVDs about ASL. We're Jehovah's Witnesses and..."
Well, at this point I quit listening because I felt like I'd been tricked. If you're a Jehovah's Witness, just say so before I open the door. I said, "Oh, well my parents are JWs and I was raised as one, but I very much disagree with your gospel and am not interested." And they said, "Oh, okay. Do your parents go to our congregation?" I said yes, then they wanted to know who they were. So I said, "Well, I'd rather not share that, you know how that goes." And they left.
I know that if I had given them my parents names they would go and tell them what their daughter had said, or they would just tell everyone else in the congregation about how one of them had a heathen daughter who didn't want to talk to them. I just hope they don't go prying around as to who has a daughter that teaches ESE in the county with blonde hair...