If there's one thing we can look back on and laugh and tell our kids it's the fact that knocking on strangers doors at inopportune times results in some funny or embarrassing experiences. I'd be interested in hearing some of yours. Here's some of mine to get the ball rolling:
1. When i was about 10 i was working with my aunt. A very posh and prim and proper lady (think Hyacinth Bucket from British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances). We knocked on one door which was opened by a girl from my class in school. As awkward as that was it was made worse by my aunt saying "oh! you're in the same class?! maybe he could study the bible with you tomorrow in school?!!!"
2. Working in a towerblock of flats in Kirkby, Liverpool (if you're from Liverpool you'll know why thats a bad thing). The guy who lived at number 66 had scratched another 6 into his door to make 666. My dad and I got that door. He knocked. All the other witnesses left us to it and went to the next floor because they were creeped out. The guy opens the door. Shaved head, bathrobe, little beard. He said "i knew you would come" and invited us in. My dad WENT IN saying to me "there's someone stronger with us than with him". Inside was painted skulls of different animals and a black cat. The householder rattled a box a cat teats and called "Satan! Come get your din-dins". We left. (This was my all most memorable story). My dad actually got in trouble with the elders for going in for some reason.
3. Working with my sister, one man opened the door completely nude. She ignored his "thingy" and went into her demo.
4. Working with an elder. Knocked on a door, hot girl opens, looks confused, laughs at me and then leaves the door whispers to her friends, they all laugh then all come to the door and asked me to start again. I wanted to die. Needless to say they took a mag which was probably read aloud at laughed at.
5. Working with an older brother. The householder took one look at him and chased us down the path shouting obscenities at us. I assumed it was because the old brother was black... we found out years later the day after his death that it was because he was a known pedophile from the 1980s. Some of community knew of him but our congregation didn't (apparently).