convenience store evangelism
July 18, 2015 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 10:41 pm by Athene.)
Does anyone here have any experience with psychos proselytizing to customers inside a store or place of business? I'm in Virginia, and I have been taken aback by these people that offer to pay for your purchases on more than one occasion the past year or so. When you decline, they give you flyer or a business card with whatever on it. I've always thrown them away. Next time, I'll hold on to it. At any rate, they're allowed to just hang out, right by the cash register. They aren't particularly pushy, but it's seems inappropriate.
There was once incident, not even a year ago where one of these guys almost made me nervous at a Marco Pizza. A nice looking, young guy just came up to me at the counter and said that the Lord had spoken to him and wanted him to pay for my pizzas and opened his wallet. Keep in mind that this dude was at leat 6 feet tall and I'm not quite 5 '3.
I wasn't quite an atheist at the time, so it didn't occur to me to actually see what was up with this motherfucker. I could've let him pay for crap, but I figured my food wouldn't actually be free if had to listen to his spiel. It was about 8:45 or so, and I was trying to get home in time to watch The Walking Dead. So, I politely said no thank you. He insisted, told me that God had put it on his heart to pay for my dinner. Again, No thank you. We did this about 5 or 6 more times, before he finally backed off, told me to have a blessed night and sat back down at a table by the register. The young working the register finally brought the pizza and had the nerve to ask me "What did that guy want?"I didn't even bother trying to explain with the creep sitting less than a few feet away.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. What did you do? Has anyone let one of these jerks pay for your shit and then walked away laughing hysterically? I'd love to hear about it.
There was once incident, not even a year ago where one of these guys almost made me nervous at a Marco Pizza. A nice looking, young guy just came up to me at the counter and said that the Lord had spoken to him and wanted him to pay for my pizzas and opened his wallet. Keep in mind that this dude was at leat 6 feet tall and I'm not quite 5 '3.
I wasn't quite an atheist at the time, so it didn't occur to me to actually see what was up with this motherfucker. I could've let him pay for crap, but I figured my food wouldn't actually be free if had to listen to his spiel. It was about 8:45 or so, and I was trying to get home in time to watch The Walking Dead. So, I politely said no thank you. He insisted, told me that God had put it on his heart to pay for my dinner. Again, No thank you. We did this about 5 or 6 more times, before he finally backed off, told me to have a blessed night and sat back down at a table by the register. The young working the register finally brought the pizza and had the nerve to ask me "What did that guy want?"I didn't even bother trying to explain with the creep sitting less than a few feet away.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. What did you do? Has anyone let one of these jerks pay for your shit and then walked away laughing hysterically? I'd love to hear about it.
