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(04-22-2013 05:36 PM)fencereagle Wrote:  You know the best and most satisfying way to get Jehovah's witnesses to go away when they knock on your door? Stand there in your doorway slack jawed staring at them and not responding in any way to anything they say. Just staring. Dont close the door, if you do that will raise their feelings of martyrdom. Don't tell them you agree because then they talk to you more. You see if you say anything at all either for or against then they have something to try to convince you of or some reason to keep tilting at windmills. Just stare until they walk away.

Seriously, why is anyone at all still responding to these home schoolers from Liberty with anything other than comedic retorts? There is no way to 'win' except by not succumbing to exactly the thing they want, attention.

I do this with telemarketers who refuse to listen to "don't call again please" and call again.

I let them go through their whole spiel and then say "huh?". Their script requires them to repeat the whole thing. I let them go through it again and then say "I don't understand". Their script requires them to try to ascertain what you don't understand. I tell them "that part you said in the middle". I keep this sort of thing up until they hang up.

I try to keep their script going as long as possible. Sort of a game.

They usually do a good job taking me off their list at that point.

huh

I do this with telemarketers who refuse to listen to "don't call again please" and call again.

I let them go through their whole spiel and then say "huh?". Their script requires them to repeat the whole thing. I let them go through it again and then say "I don't understand". Their script requires them to try to ascertain what you don't understand. I tell them "that part you said in the middle". I keep this sort of thing up until they hang up.

I try to keep their script going as long as possible. Sort of a game.

They usually do a good job taking me off their list at that point.

I don't understand.