Oh today I had one of those moments. I am usually pretty good at keeping myself quiet about what I really think when the lord/jesus talk starts at work. But today I almost lost it.
Early morning, at a farm, I am responsible for spraying salmonella vaccine on baby chicks and we have contractors that take the chick baskets from the delivery truck inside the house. This contractors are like from a different planet; anything you can remotely imagine I have to see. There is a preacher among them. A small older guy that I can barely understand, always smiling and I swear he is high on something.
Today he started saying (what I think I understood) that we should find God in the next house. House meaning chicken house in a chicken farm.
I tried to ignore he was talking to me. He insisted. I am looking at him trying to understand why I would find God on this house and we didnt find on the two previous ones, in my view every house is the same thing.
My nerves are already on a fine line trying to understand the guy, avoid laughing or even going into questioning his line of thought.
Then he asks me if I don't want to go to heaven. (I am puzzled where that question came from?!) I said: heaven is right here.
He then has the courage to say my answer was wrong.
That was it. I am probably 5" taller and a good 20lbs heavier than this little preacher. I am looking down at him and I took a deep breathe, put myself together and said: you think I am wrong? You have your beliefs, I have mine. I make the best of what I have here on earth (pointing down to the ground), I know when I die, I will be just fine.
Then I walked away and back to work.
I am still bugged about it. Lol
I don't envy you in that situation. It's really frustrating when you are getting preached at, especially when you are working. Here is what I do. I sing a song in my head. I think that Little Village sings it.
Don't Bug Me When I'm Working
I'm working. I'm working. I got a job to do.
Don't Bug Me When I'm Working. I don't work for you.
Don't Bug Me When I'm Working. I got a lot to do.
At the sound of the tone, I'm gonna hang up the phone.
If you want to be my friend, don't bug me when I'm working.
you did fine. don't let it bug you. the guy was buggy.
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Thanks! It is hard to keep straight face on those type of situations. ?
I wish we could call all our friends on this site to have our backs when we get backed into a corner and forced to deal with ignorant banal rhetoric. I’m usually at a loss for words when this happens.
That is such a wishful thinking that I would love to make it reality. It woul be awesome to get a Support League of Rationalism ??
Of course, in little guy, the head is so limited that nothing would be worth saying to him.
@Zoohome True! Maybe a good knock to the head will get his rational machine working again. ? Worth a shot! Also, “Support League of Rationalism”
That's a bit whacky to be exposed to that in the workplace?
Of course there are more of them than us I guess? Sigh.
I think you did okay. I'd be pondering that one too.
One of the beauty of our site is that we can vent with mind like individuals ???
Thanks