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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 12:50 am
I've never seen one of those. I'm in Tennessee like BQ. But I mainly stick to places like Spring Hill and Murfreesboro that are not as backwoods as other places around here.
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 1:00 am
(July 18, 2015 at 11:52 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: (July 18, 2015 at 10:40 pm)Thena323 Wrote: 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. I'm in Tennessee and we get a lot of those types. They scare the ever living shit out of me! Being a short blind girl I get a lot of freakazoids wanting to heal me. They have a tendency to touch without asking. My mother keeps saying that they just want to be nice, but I don't think she understands how genuinely terrifying this. Wouldn't a vicious service animal be great to have at those moments? Now that would be entertainment. I'd pay money to watch that go down!
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2015 at 1:13 am by BrokenQuill92.)
(July 19, 2015 at 12:50 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I've never seen one of those. I'm in Tennessee like BQ. But I mainly stick to places like Spring Hill and Murfreesboro that are not as backwoods as other places around here.
I don't know what part of Murfreesboro you're in but the freaks pop up everywhere near me. Maybe I give off a "Welcome Weirdos" vibe
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 1:12 am
(July 19, 2015 at 1:00 am)Thena323 Wrote: (July 18, 2015 at 11:52 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I'm in Tennessee and we get a lot of those types. They scare the ever living shit out of me! Being a short blind girl I get a lot of freakazoids wanting to heal me. They have a tendency to touch without asking. My mother keeps saying that they just want to be nice, but I don't think she understands how genuinely terrifying this. Wouldn't a vicious service animal be great to have at those moments? Now that would be entertainment. I'd pay money to watch that go down! Unfortunately they choose the most docile dogs for public interaction
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 1:24 am
(July 19, 2015 at 1:12 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: (July 19, 2015 at 1:00 am)Thena323 Wrote: Wouldn't a vicious service animal be great to have at those moments? Now that would be entertainment. I'd pay money to watch that go down! Unfortunately they choose the most docile dogs for public interaction Sigh. That's disappointing.
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 1:25 am
As a business manager for almost two decades in SoCal, I didn't permit that sort of behavior, not because of my atheism, but because my establishments were businesses, and the comfort of my customers trumped any urge of any of them to evangelize.
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 3:08 am
In England we are lucky enough that it is very rare to see it anywhere. The only thing I get is JW banging on the door and talking nonsense.
God sure does move in mysterious ways. "Starving child, cancer patient, let's see... Ah! A man who could buy a woman a pizza. I'll get involved here, I think."
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 3:13 am
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Never been in a situation like that, but imagine 'do you have a minute to talk about our lord satan' should help
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 10:04 am
(July 18, 2015 at 10:40 pm)Thena323 Wrote: 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.
That sounds creepy especially when the guy wouldn't take no for an answer. He could have wanted to evangelize you or he could have thought that you would have let your guard down so that he could make a move on you. Either way, alarm bells would have went off in my head.
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RE: convenience store evangelism
July 19, 2015 at 10:14 am
(July 19, 2015 at 1:25 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: As a business manager for almost two decades in SoCal, I didn't permit that sort of behavior, not because of my atheism, but because my establishments were businesses, and the comfort of my customers trumped any urge of any of them to evangelize.
Good call. If I witnessed or was subject to this sort of solicitation, I would absolutely speak to management and make it perfectly clear that I was never setting foot inside the store again if that sort of thing was allowed. I'd extend that to every location if it's not an independent.
I've never seen anything like that happen, but I did get accosted by a Jesus freak in the parking lot of a convenience store when I bought some gas for a down-on-their luck couple once. Dude insisted I was going to get repaid sevenfold for my generosity in heaven and wanted to hold a little prayer circle in the parking lot. Fuck no, get away from me.
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