Funny Ways to Decline Fliers: Share Yours!

[Cyrus]

Does their lack of English make them more or less attractive?

? They speak english just fine, considering there american.

 

[Cyrus]

Oh no! The cute girl is soliciting me to support a humanitarian cause by donating money! How can I refuse? What would Nancy Reagan say?

Take your pants off.

 

[BobG]

I have learned the hard way to donate anonymously, if possible.

A fun way to annoy someone you don't like (an ex, for example) is to donate money in that person's name to a cause they absolutely abhor (along with that person's contact info). Nothing annoys an atheist more than to be eternally thanked and pestered for follow-on donations to Focus on the Family. Or a member of the New Life church than being thanked and pestered for eternity by The Unholy Apostolic Circle of Satan.

 

[jtbell]

I have heard some really funny methods of how people decline fliers when they are offered.

I figured it would be fun to make a thread where you put your favorite methods of avoiding them.

Sometimes I pretend to be a foreign tourist: shrug, shake my head sadly and babble something in Finnish. "Valitettavasti en ymmärrä englantia!"

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When the Jehovah's Witnesses come to the door I always try to be polite. The standard response is to say "thanks for coming by, but we already have our own beliefs". On one occasion, after closing the door, I realized that I was wearing a rather pornographic t-shirt that I would never wear in public. I had just received it as a joke gift...I think for my birthday.

I am pretty sure that we didn't see them for a long time after that. At the least, we didn't see them nearly as often.

 

[turbo]

Sometime early in our marriage, my wife and I were living in one of a series of run-down-dump apartments in our quest to save money for a home of our own, and the Jehovahs came calling. A couple of well-dressed women came to the door and tried to get me to accept their literature, and I told them "Only if you'll trade with me." I had picked up a Playboy off a newsstand because of a W.F.Buckley submission, and having read it, and looked at the tame photos (of course) the magazine was on an end-table near the door ready to be tossed. Somehow, I was never bothered by JW evangelicals for quite a few years until a few months ago when I had to Un-invite them from my property. (Don't come back!) Those people keep some pretty impressive records, because my wife and I have lived in a LOT of places over the last 30+ years.