Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: December 26, 2014 09:59AM
It used to be that one of the most humiliating experiences on Christmas was to put up with the Mormon elders coming over and singing from those awful green hymn books on your doorstep. They thought they were doing you a favor by "caroling" for you in their off-pitch and reedy voices. Then they would want to come in, leave you a message about Mormonism, and "sing" again. God I hated that. They would do it year after year, no matter where I was. In Italy I would hustle them into our flat so that no one in my stair well would call the cops on us, then make them tone it down. But finally I resigned and they tried to do it only one time that I remember, a couple of years ago now. I let them finish their song, told them thanks, wished them merry Christmas, and closed the door. I haven't seen them since.