If you have a "No solicitors" sign on your door, who is that meant to keep away? Does it apply to door-to-door religious folks? Or does solicitation involve selling things? Because that would give the religious people a loophole, right? ("We aren't selling anything; we're giving you THE LORD!" "It's not solicitation; it's SALVATION!") (I need to go into PR for door-to-door God people.)
(Also, if you knock on the door and no one answers, do you knock again, or JUST LEAVE? [I mean for solicitors and God people. If I were going to visit someone who I knew, and they were expecting me, then I would knock, and if no one answered, I would either knock again or pull out my cell phone and call.])
This post brought to you by the God people who would not stop knocking despite my refusal to answer the door in my nightgown and with no voice thanks to this cold. I hope that, when I answered it, I was everything they had hoped for.
Steph, according to M-W, you're in the right and they are just persistent irksome knobs. [link]
Dang. I guess I could post a sign that says "No god people."
I'm thinking of giving CJ a passport for his 18th birthday. Right of passage kind of thing. Is that totally dorky?
One nice thing about our apartment complex is that we haven't gotten any god people here. The closest we get to solisitation are flyers hung on our door. But it also means we don't get trick or treaters. Heck of a trade off.
Is that totally dorky?
I'm not sure how much he'll appreciate it immediately but it's a fabulous gift for looking back. You are, literally, giving him access to nearly the whole world.
It's a great gift, though you'd want to technically do it AFTER his birthday so it's good for 10 years instead of 5, I'd think.
You get a 10-year adult passport from age 16 on. So any time is good.
Right - was going to fill out the application, have the money, and give that to him to sign. Then he would get the photo and go submit the application whenever he wanted, without parental assistance.
As any almost 18 year old, he has been mulling over all the new things he COULD do after his birthday, whether they are things he would do or not. He hasn't considered this one. (I know he could get an adult passport now, but I'd have to give my permission and be with him.)
That sounds like a great idea, Suzi.
I just registered for a triathlon in September. I hope that turns out to be a good decision.
