How many homes

carla

How many homes would you say the average jw hits in a year? I notice they do not leave the literature if nobody is home, usually.

ten hours a month - at least half of which is back calls/return visits in rural territory when the householder is most likely to be out and the other half walk-ing very slowly covering one street of 30 houses during each hour, working over and over with another pair, that works out at about 15 houses an hour for 5 hours - its still quite a few and out of those 15 how many are idiotic enough to open their doors...

uninformed

Crumpet,

You are forgetting about the 45 minute coffee breaks that it took 15 minutes to drive to and from.

You are forgetting about the fact that witnesses work in two's, therefore halving what is accomplished, thank goodness.

While the publishers are doing this, the elders are riding around together terrorizing people who would just like to forget the whole mess.

I think the average publisher actually talks to less than 5 people per month.

The elders do far less.

Interesting note: We know a real nice Pio. sister that made it her ministry to study with alzheimer's patients at nursing homes. Every week she would study the same lesson. (joke) Seriously, though, her studies would only occasionally remember her from week to week.

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Crumpet

Didnt know whether to be shocked at the Alzheimer witnessing!

I didn't include the 45 minute coffee breaks because we never had these in the UK at least I never got invited to them. I hear about you guiys in the states descending on favourite bagel shops or coffee houses but over hear at the end of 2 hours preaching some one might invitye everuone round for coffee and cake that they would provide, but I never even went into a coffee shop until after I left the witnesses for any reason. Mainly I think the majority of us were too poor to afford a coffee out - that would have been an unaffordable luxury.

Is there anyone else from the UK who shares this experience at all?

garybuss

Here they throw down Awake! magazines at not at homes . . . . I think it's like the cave explorers who mark their trail with string . . . it's so they can find their way back to the Starbucks. I once saw a Witness try to make a back call on a gopher. The gopher wasn't home, so they stuck an Awake! in his hole.

Finally-Free

I think a more interesting question would be: How may tons of donuts do JWs consume every year? How much coffee? Does JW traffic to and from Tim Hortons significantly increase the necessity of road repairs, and should JWs taxes be increased accordingly?

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Fe2O3Girl

I didn't include the 45 minute coffee breaks because we never had these in the UK at least I never got invited to them.

No, we never had coffee breaks either. I remember it used to be a real treat to get half a cup of coffee from a flask in the CO's car. Highlight of the CO's visit, and the only time we got warm drinks during field service.

merfi

Here in the boonies, it depends on if it's rural or town territory. (Nice days = town, crappy weather = rurals) On a given Sat morning, we'd hit maybe 10-15 houses. Not-at-homes were not left any literature unless it was the second time thru, specifically targeting the NAH. In the rurals, we'd leave old ~~rags~~ mags first time thru for NAH -- one sister, if she was in charge, would tell us to leave 2-3. Rurals had a catch-22 -- break was limited to filling our coffee cups at the Qwik Trip as we headed outta town. If we were doing town territory -- ahhhh, loooonnng coffee break. Some used it for a full-on breakfast.

I'm so glad to be done with this.

~merfi

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