Art, you hit it pretty well right on when you said "one man's joke hits another one like a 2 x 4". So we all have our "buttons" - and once in a while someone's is going to get pushed. Hopefully, not the same person's all the time. If everyone wanted to be sure not to hit anybody's buttons, we'd all have to shut up.

I've never not answered the door except when I actually was dripping naked, in the shower; or literally too sick to get up and answer it. And maybe once when I was "engrossed in personal activities" ;-).

But once I've answered the door, I still feel that I have the right to decide whether or not I want to buy a magazine or discuss the local elections with whomever rang the bell. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. And after I've said "I'm sorry, I can't this time", or "I'm sorry, I already have a church", if the person on my porch doesn't leave, who's the one being rude?

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