Get a lot of these guys lurking around the housing estate I deliver to. Must've been a dozen of them today, going door to door in pairs. I'm not Religious at all -I'm quite happy for others to believe in fairies if they want to, but seriously object when they come knocking on the door, trying to berate me into believing, especially when they drag their kids along with them & present them to you when you open the door, as they were doing today.
They're annoying when I'm working, cos they're constantly in the way when I'm running from door to door trying to deliver the Mail. Also, householders see them coming & won't open the door to me, thinking I'm the God botherer. Get out of my way & stop being so damn polite & trying to engage me in conversation.
For some reason, as I tried to push past them to get to a letterbox today, one of them asked "Excuse me. Are there any deaf people around here?" -presumably cos everyone was pretending they hadn't heard the doorbell.
Obviously, I immediately said
"Pardon?"
-and he patiently asked me again.
Jeez, I bet you lot are a barrel of laughs at parties.