Posted by:
mondaymorning
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Date: September 09, 2012 11:30AM
A ditto to Man in Black's story.
Recently my (nevermo) Fiancé and I were at our local grocery store, which we shop at generally once or twice a week. One of the sackers there has been a member of the church for about 3 years now and he clearly isn't 100% there. He's about 25 and while he isn't completely mentally handicap, you can tell there is just a little something 'off' there. It's a completely different topic, but I find it completely deplorable that missionaries would even teach people like him, not because he can't handle it, but he is more impressionable than others. They spent a while teaching him and at first he would bare his testimony that he believed the both the Catholic church and Mormon church are true. The Bish took him into his office and further brain washed him until he now understands what TSCC wants him to say when he gets up to speak.
Well when we go to the grocery store he spots us and he makes dang sure that he is our sacker and takes us to our car. He will dismiss other sackers who are next up in line to sack just so he can take me. He always talks about church and whats going on in the student ward which I used to attend with him. So as to avoid any uncomfortable conversation I've always just played along with his conversation and don't mention that I no longer attend or believe.
This particular trip to the store, my Fiancé and I decided we would pick up a nice bottle of wine to drink with dinner that night. When we get to the checkout he's not there, but lo and behold he runs up and tells the sacker that is there that he'll take us. The wine is the first thing the checker scanned and was slid down the line to our sacker. He picks up the bottle and studies it (as opposed to just putting it in the sack like he should) and finally says, "So what's the wine for tonight?" I decided that I'm done pretending with him (or anyone else) and just said, "It's for drinking!" He looked at me a bit dumbfounded and repeats my words "for drinking" but it was more of a question. Well more items come down the line so he sacks it and keeps going.
I offered to carry the groceries out myself but he insisted that he would. As we were walking out he says, "So how is church going for you?"
I responded, "I haven't been in a while."
"What ward are you in" he quickly fired back.
"I'm not really sure. I didn't really look into it after I moved."
He then launched into how he was still in the student ward we met in and how things were going great. We got to my car and I said thanks and sent him on his way.
I knew eventually he and I would have this conversation, but I'm really hoping that when I go back he lets it go. I will not take being bugged about religion at my grocery store. I'm thinking I'm just going to bring a business card with www.mormonthink.com written on it and give it to him next time. I'm sure he'd just immediately report it back to the bishop who would then give a rousing sermon about the dangers of the internet in the following sacrament meeting.
If he persists I would consider reporting him to the manager, but he really needs this job. Again, he isn't all there and has no other prospects for work so I don't want him to get fired, but I also won't tolerate anyone giving me a hard time about my choices. This is especially true because I don't live in Utah so 99% of everybody else working at the store wouldn't ever give a second thought to me buying wine, coffee or any other thing that JS decided was bad.
Bottom line I don't want him to get fired, but also don't want to be harassed if I buy wine.