A surprise when shopping returns

[Paul]

An update on "A surprise when shopping".

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=2341

Yep it's happened again.
Local shopping and the same woman from last time walks straight up to me and asks if I'm a prepper again.

This time I'm ready for her. No fluster, no distractions, and got her talking.
Apparently there is a local LDS circle or whatever near where I live.
First I've heard about it but nothing new there.
Comes with keeping your head down I suppose.

Apparently I've swopped LDS storage tips with one of their members

Huh? Swopped storage tips?
Couldn't think who I would have spoken to but I carried on.
Eventually it came out.

I was talking in our local hardware shop about storing my garden produce to one of her 'family'.
That's it!
A chance comment about building a solar drying rack for onions and I'm nailed.

So what to do?
I asked about her "family". Isn't that what they call their fellow brethren? Anyway it worked.
Apparently a conclusion had been drawn that I might be "a lost soul" from another life and attempts were being made to "bring me back in".

OK, I'm usually pretty calm about things yet a feeling of 'entrapment' came over me. Hell I'm paranoid most of the time but REALLY!

So I quietly explained that I wasn't a 'lost soul', a prepper, a religious type, and didn't need saving.
All politely but I suppose you could say 'firmly'.

Discussion dropped, she fussed the dawg and left but not before quietly saying that her group wasn't going to give up on me!!!!!!!!!!!

Scary.
If I hadn't already got a good reason to leave town (and we really are trying to do just that), I sure as hell have now!

[The Local Ned]

LOL .

Repent brother , it will surely be them thar scientologists next

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How they managed to work out you were a lost soul from produce drying info?

Holy jeebus - thats some leap to take...the sky wizard alone knows what way these religious nuts think...no wonder some of these cults do the mass suicide thing. So frakkin gullible and so out of touch.

Laugh it off BP , unless ya really need 'saved' that is

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(10 September 2012, 01:04)The Local Ned Wrote: LOL .

Repent brother , it will surely be them thar scientologists next

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How they managed to work out you were a lost soul from produce drying info?

Holy jeebus - thats some leap to take...the sky wizard alone knows what way these religious nuts think...no wonder some of these cults do the mass suicide thing. So frakkin gullible and so out of touch.

Laugh it off Paul , unless ya really need 'saved' that is

[Hrusai]

hah! so it was a simple attempt at conversion to a cult, nothing more sinister like pc plod undercover lool

[Tigs]

lol you sure she was not on lsd? lds latter day saints! Mormons or is that moomins ?

[bigpaul]

we used to get the JW coming round when we lived in Somerset...i politely said i didnt want "saving" and shut the door in their faces, these days we've got a sign on the door which says(nearly) the same thing.

[NorthernRaider]

(10 September 2012, 00:20)Paul Wrote: An update on "A surprise when shopping".

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=2341

Yep it's happened again.
Local shopping and the same woman from last time walks straight up to me and asks if I'm a prepper again.

This time I'm ready for her. No fluster, no distractions, and got her talking.
Apparently there is a local LDS circle or whatever near where I live.
First I've heard about it but nothing new there.
Comes with keeping your head down I suppose.

Apparently I've swopped LDS storage tips with one of their members

Huh? Swopped storage tips?
Couldn't think who I would have spoken to but I carried on.
Eventually it came out.

I was talking in our local hardware shop about storing my garden produce to one of her 'family'.
That's it!
A chance comment about building a solar drying rack for onions and I'm nailed.

So what to do?
I asked about her "family". Isn't that what they call their fellow brethren? Anyway it worked.
Apparently a conclusion had been drawn that I might be "a lost soul" from another life and attempts were being made to "bring me back in".

OK, I'm usually pretty calm about things yet a feeling of 'entrapment' came over me. Hell I'm paranoid most of the time but REALLY!

So I quietly explained that I wasn't a 'lost soul', a prepper, a religious type, and didn't need saving.
All politely but I suppose you could say 'firmly'.

Discussion dropped, she fussed the dawg and left but not before quietly saying that her group wasn't going to give up on me!!!!!!!!!!!

Scary.
If I hadn't already got a good reason to leave town (and we really are trying to do just that), I sure as hell have now!

Thats quite odd cos i have gotton on well with loads of Mormons both locally and internationally and none have ever tried to recruit me but all were willing to share prepping tips with me. That included Storming Mormon on Misc Surv. Rest assured mate they are totally benign and are more likely to offer you simple kindness rather than conversion.

[00111001]

Do you live in Jones Town?

[Hrusai]

(10 September 2012, 08:23)bigpaul Wrote: we used to get the JW coming round when we lived in Somerset...i politely said i didnt want "saving" and shut the door in their faces, these days we've got a sign on the door which says(nearly) the same thing.

similar reason im a pastafarian, that way i answer the door, say no thanks im a pastafarian, they ask me what it is, and i end up lecturing them xD

[IB1]

I'm not sure if the ones over here are the same as the ones in the US but if they are then she might have access to all sorts of preserving equipment and bulk food stocks. If you bump into her again it might be worth asking about their local groups preps and whether you could have access to their cannery or whatever else they have.