Missionary Video Fun
Saturday, 10-4-2003: Someone buy my cat before I kill it. It’s been a good weekend so far. Yesterday I planned to go to 2600 since I hadn’t been there in about 4 months. But at the last minute I decided to see School of Rock with Tricia which was a great movie. The weather is finally nice again. Today me and the kids bought some cool little airplanes at Target and took them to the park to fly them around. Then we walked around the neighborhood selling girlscout cookies and went home to fly airplanes for a few more hours. This evening I went to Taco Bell with Tricia, Jordyn and Keirstan which Liife decided to document a portion of. Now I’m back home wishing my hand would stop bleeding. Stupid cat.
Oh yeah, yesterday a couple of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to my door. I got some video of me attempting to pretend to be old and confused with them. It didn’t go very well but at least I tried. These are the first religious people to come to my door while I was home all summer. Last summer I would get several per week that I would be rude to. Back in April I hook up a couple VCRs and an intercom so I can screw with them and they stop coming. I think all the local churches blacklisted me. At this rate I’ll never get my new reality series off the ground.
By this time, I’d given up on the whole idea of videotaping the fun so I didn’t even have blank tapes in either of the VCRs. At first I thought they were cops but then noticed that they were too young. By the time I got tapes into the VCRs and was ready to talk to them, they were already walking away. Luckily, they were still eager to talk to me and came back when they heard me. Look how friendly the guy is below, waving at the camera and everything!
By the time I get everything all hooked up and I’m talking to them, I have no idea what to say to them. So I pretend to be an old man who’s “old and confused.” I ask if they’re selling girlscout cookies and the little smartass says, “And they’re made out of real girlscouts!” They quickly decide that “somebody is joking with us” and they leave. Before they leave, one of them pulls out a notepad and takes some notes. By enlarging and enhancing the image, I’m able to see what it is he’s writing. I’ve included this enhanced image below…
As they leave, I scream “Get off my property” and “That’s right, just keep walking!” to them. Unfortunately, there are 2 problems with this video clip. Well, 3 problems if you count that it’s not very funny. But one problem is that I had the volume up on the wrong TV monitor up here, resulting in feedback. Another problem is that I was talking way too close to the microphone. But it’s still a somewhat amsuing clip. So click on the picture below of them leaving to watch the full clip. It’s in Windows Media format and it’s about 2.5 megs. (Note from the future: I updated this to a YouTube link.)
