| May 3, 2001: Jehovah witnesses | [reflections] [home] [search] |
7PM. (Surprisingly I am at home at that very unusual hours). Doorbell rings. Two young nice-looking Russian girls. "Hello, do you have 5 minutes, please?".
Oh my. Some sales agents, or bullshit like that again. But because girls are young, nice-looking and Russian, I let them in. "Ok, but 5 minutes, no more".
"Do you think people have a chance to leave in peace?". Sheeeshhh... They are not sales agents, they are worse. Activists of one of these left-wing, peace-supporting organizations. I regret that let them to enter. But because they are young, nice-looking, ... (see above), I take the initiative and during the next 5 minutes explain very briefly my views on the so-called peace process, so-called palestinian people, so-called international public opinion, and all this interesting stuff. I try (with moderate degree of success) not to be rude and use mostly legitimate (Russian) words.
"Well, we see that you are intelligent person and we may skip our usual introduction and go down to the matters". Oh. Ouch. Thanks for the compliment. What?? That's not enough? Are they so stupid (hm, after all, may be, because they are young, nice and Russian) that after all what I said they think they have a chance to convert me to their The Only True Way?
"We are from the sect of Jehovah's Witnesses. We want to tell you a bit about our sect and our activities". Ah! That is. (To tell the truth, I had a chance to understand from the very beginning that they are nor sales agents, neither left-wing activists, as they wear skirts. And can you imagine Israeli sales agent, or Israeli left-wing activist, no matter which gender, age, race and appearance, in something other than unisex jeans?). At least this is much more interesting than everyday stuff you see on the streets. So let's give them another 5 minutes.
At that moment, one of the girls pressed to much at the arm of sofa were she sat and broke it. (To tell the truth, it breaks several times before, and each time I was pretending to repair it). Boy, how ashamed was she! I guess this is one of Jehovah witnesses precepts - thou shall not to break sofa's arms at stranger's houses. This unhappy event made them very shy and sorry and put a natural end to the visit.
And seems they are very bad organized at all - the brochure they gave me contained contact phones and addresses in Ivory Coast, Nikaragua and Kirgyzstan but not in Israel...