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SHOW TUNES 1, FUNDAMENTALISTS 0

A creative and uniquely New York solution for dealing with annoying proselytizers on public transportation:

Me: “Excuse me, but do you mind keeping your voice down, I am trying to read.”

Preacher Lady: (screams) “I got to testify.”

Preacher lady hitches up her skirts and tells me that I am going to hell for interrupting you-know-who’s word. Two or three OTHER Christian ladies on the train start shouting at me and discussing my prospects as the Devil’s prison bitch. The last straw was a 50 something red faced man in a suit slamming his Bible towards my face.
There was only one thing I could do.

Me: “If you all don’t lower your voices and cease calling me Satan, I will have to sing show tunes.”

The other straphangers look at me with stony faces.
I begin to sing.
“It’s very clear, our love is here to stay. Not for a year, but forever and a day…”

I love this man. He showed the spirit of Aloha in New York, since it’s very clear that he’s from the islands.

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One comment on “SHOW TUNES 1, FUNDAMENTALISTS 0

  1. I love it! I wish I had a chance to use the technique, but all the local “missionaries” are afraid of me, or know on sight I am beyond salvation.

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