Door to Door

Now I know that there isn't anyone out there that hasn't been woken up by some J.W's knocking on your door early in the morning. I hated having to wake up so early to get dress, to go door to door trying to sell magazines. I was so little, and all I wanted to do was watch Saturday morning cartoons. There would never be those kinds of Saturdays for us kids. Plus we always went door to door around our neighborhood. I was always so embarrassed, because I knew come Monday I would be made fun of for being a Jehovy as the kids would call it. It was bad enough that all J.W kids had to stand outside the classroom for the Pledge of Allegiance, and on top of that we could never participate in any birthday or holiday parties that were celebrated at school, and trust me there was always some kind of celebration going on. So off to the library we would go, to read while all the other kids were having fun. Amongst the other things we couldn't do at school was participate in sports, because in the eyes of the J.W's competition was a bad thing. I often wondered, why I just couldn't be a normal kid.