Being Assertive with Jehovah's Witnesses

tango14
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:55:04 +0000

Usually, I don’t answer the door. If they catch me off guard, I simply say, “No thanks, not interested.”

We have an unusual name which most people don’t pronounce correctly. Very early, we taught the kids that if one of us picked up the phone and said “Hello” and nobody responded, hang up, and if they couldn’t pronounce our name correctly, hand up, because they didn’t know us.

A lot of calls come in at work, and we simply say, “We never take phone solicitations.” Fortunately, they’re not religious.