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Is That A Challenge?
A few years ago I had a very interesting housing situation. I was
sharing an apartment with two roommates: Brian and Steve. Brian was
a very-intelligent athiest-socialist frankophile. He used to be
agnostic, but one day he woke up with his heart filled with the
complete absence of the Lord and he now has faith that there is no
god.
Steve was fundamentalist Christian and read the Bible for half-an-hour every day.
Finally, there's me, Clint. I'm devout agnostic with a fairly solid background of knowledge in Christianity and paganism. I am positive that I don't know if there is a god or not. On the other hand, I know so much about magical theory that, even though I don't believe in it, one of my pagan friends came to me when he needed help with a spell. He was trying to figure out who was the best theoretical magician he knew, and it was me.
One Saturday morning there was a knock at the door. (Yes, you can guess where this is going).
It was a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses.
If they hadn't woken me up, I would've felt sorry for them. It didn't matter if Brian, Steve, or I answered the door, they were pretty much screwed.
They got me. I opened the door wearing jeans and they introduced themselves.
I am not a morning person.
Waking me up is one of the most effective ways to piss me off known. The thing about me is that when I'm pissed off, I may not be mean directly, but I may be a bit vengeful. I took their introduction as a challenge.
I was very polite and it took me forty-five minutes but they eventually began to say things like, "we really should be leaving..."
Yes, I managed to out-talk Jehovah's Witnesses.
Now I'm waiting for the Mormons...
