hobie16 wrote:Unfortunately yes. I had a friend who's wife made the leap. I also worked for a company where the head of security was a Grand Wazoo or whatever they're called in the local church. He hired a bunch of people from the church with the apparent goal of converting the whole company. Senior management finally got enough complaints about more tract reading than work getting done and made some changes. I had fun going all pagan on a few who got in my face one too many times. The company Halloween party was a real hoot.
That's hilarious and reminds me of the time that I had an ardent...um...admirer at one of my jobs. He was the uncle of one of my coworkers, and she, knowing I wouldn't be interested even if I hadn't been involved with St. March already, tried to tell him everything she could think of about me to make him lose interest.
Among the tactics she tried, she told him I was goth, (I had the hair and I am that pale) she tried telling him I was gay (he didn't seem to care and actually was only encouraged...) then finally, I 'happened' to mention to him that everyone in my family was of this certain religious persuasion and...I never saw him again.
And you're not going to believe this. My mother actually sent the ministers from the church to my door today- I haven't seen them in more than twelve years and she told them that I wanted to go back and they should visit me! I informed them that I was sorry that she wasted their time, but apparently she misunderstood me when I said I was never going back.
You should have seen the look on their faces...
I stood up for myself, after all these years. I was calm, I was respectful, I was direct, and it was only after they left that my bloodpressure skyrocketed and I ranted awhile. But I'm better now.
And later I smiled thinking, yeah, I bet hobie would've been proud of me :D
Merry Christmas, everybody!
xoxo
bru
