It was late afternoon and she was preparing to cook something special for tea that night.
It was her habit to layout each measured ingredient in pots across the kitchen counter. The truth of it was that she was enjoying herself. She was in the process of grating cheese when the doorbell chimes sounded. She sighed. She really didn’t want to stop what she was doing. She certainly wasn’t expecting anybody. Maybe they’ll go away if I ignore it, she thought, and carried on. Moments later, it chimed again. This time it was a double chime. They must have pressed the button twice! She had to admit; it could be important. She washed her hands and walked to the door deliberately making a show of drying them on the towel as she went. She moved quietly to the peephole. The face she saw looked slightly familiar, but she couldn’t place it.
She opened the door to find a man wearing a scruffy suit, holding a clipboard and waving a leaflet. She didn’t get a chance to say anything before he launched off with his prepared spiel about how he could show her how to change her life for the better by heeding the words coming from the scriptures. This was followed immediately by one quotation after another from the good book.
It was during one of these that she interrupted him. “Excuse me, but haven’t you called here before?”
He looked sheepish and said, “No. I don’t think so.”
She paused for a moment to wonder. He took advantage of this to keep going. As he went on about the benefits that can be gained, and so on, she was sure he had been round before. She wasn’t sure how many times she’d found him standing on her doorstep, but he’d certainly been standing there before. She was thinking how he was easily the most annoying God-botherer she’d ever come across. Her annoyance was growing, but she hid it when she interrupted him again.
“Please, I just have to see to something in the kitchen.”
He looked quite put out as she pushed the door to.
She considered the fact that as a religious person, he really shouldn’t lie. She hadn’t been gone long when she returned, and before he could speak, she asked, “Are you sure you haven’t been here before?”
He pouted, nodding his head. He said, “It’ll only take a moment to explain the statistics that are provided at the bottom of the leaflet.”
At that point she raised both her eyebrow and right arm at the same time.
The effect was surprisingly effective. He turned instantly and hurried out into the street.
Back in the house, closing the drawer, she thought about how powerful a simple gesture could be.
There again, on the other hand, it was probably the gun that did it!
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