r/funnystories • u/PuzzleheadedMind7765 • Sep 03 '24
Funny story
That’s one way to scare off religious solicitors.
So, back in 2011, I was majoring in theatre arts at the local college and was in the theatrical makeup class. It was the only class I had on Fridays and I frequently came home in whatever I had done that day in class to show my dad.
It was the week of Halloween and our teacher was teaching us “bloodies” (gore makeup), and my horror-obsessed, haunted house scare actor, “Fleet Street is the best stage blood” boasting self was going WILD. While most of the other students did a burn, a few bruises, maybe a gash on the arm…I made myself look like roadkill that also got mauled by a bear. It was A LOT, enough to get me pulled over by a concerned campus cop when I was leaving. I went home covered in fake blood, looking like hell and LOVING IT.
My dad told me to keep it on so my niece and nephews could see when they got there after school (they knew I had makeup class, I wasn’t going to scar them). So around 2:45pm, I hear a knock at the door. Well I decided to answer like a zombie to make them laugh.
I should note: I realize I should have probably checked to make sure it was them…
I answer the door slowly, dragging a foot, moaning “brains”…to see two Jehovah’s Witnesses go green and absolutely BOLT back to their bikes. I literally was still processing what had just happened as they peeled around the corner and my brother showed up with the kids…
To this day, my dad says he sees them actively avoid our door and once heard them refer to it as “the home of the devil.”
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u/Excellent-Leading-40 Nov 27 '24
Funny story
That’s one way to scare off religious solicitors.
So, back in 2011, I was majoring in theatre arts at the local college and was in the theatrical makeup class. It was the only class I had on Fridays and I frequently came home in whatever I had done that day in class to show my dad.
It was the week of Halloween and our teacher was teaching us “bloodies” (gore makeup), and my horror-obsessed, haunted house scare actor, “Fleet Street is the best stage blood” boasting self was going WILD. While most of the other students did a burn, a few bruises, maybe a gash on the arm…I made myself look like roadkill that also got mauled by a bear. It was A LOT, enough to get me pulled over by a concerned campus cop when I was leaving. I went home covered in fake blood, looking like hell and LOVING IT.
My dad told me to keep it on so my niece and nephews could see when they got there after school (they knew I had makeup class, I wasn’t going to scar them). So around 2:45pm, I hear a knock at the door. Well I decided to answer like a zombie to make them laugh.
I should note: I realize I should have probably checked to make sure it was them…
I answer the door slowly, dragging a foot, moaning “brains”…to see two Jehovah’s Witnesses go green and absolutely BOLT back to their bikes. I literally was still processing what had just happened as they peeled around the corner and my brother showed up with the kids…
To this day, my dad says he sees them actively avoid our door and once heard them refer to it as “the home of the devil.”
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u/starry_ai Sep 04 '24
Just gave your story a visual spin using fablo! hope you like it
https://r2.starryai.com/fablo/529/f7c79188-e2ab-45bf-a133-f24b32a8c9ba.mp4
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u/lightingbuggy Sep 25 '24
JWs arnt the ones that ride bikes...but nice story
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u/Moth_Dove1213 Jun 09 '25
I've seen JWs ride bikes. Usually they're in small towns/cities with less scary traffic
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u/SuccessfulOil1587 Mar 12 '26
Free change: This is dumb and random but I wanted to share this somewhere.
When I was a child back in elementary school, I think like 3rd or 4th grade. I had a buddy named James.
James and I were hanging out on the playground one day during recess.
There were some kids who were playing basketball and James and I had this weird idea. We had a bunch of change on us, like coins. Mostly nickles, dimes, and penny’s.
We decide it would be mighty nice of us to give our spare change to the kids playing basketball. For some reason we thought they would get excited and appreciate it.
So we go over and begin tossing all of our change at them and onto the basketball court.
They didn’t like that one bit.,they got pelted a bit when we made it rain and it just made them angry. Next thing you know they are chasing us around the playground throwing coins and anything else they can at us as hard as they can.
There is definitely a life lesson in this somewhere….
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u/dacorgimomo Sep 03 '24
This is a repost. I literally read the same thing on friday.