Every day a new thrill...

Last Sunday afternoon -- the Sunday next after the feast of St. Francis of Assisi -- we held our annual Blessing of Animals service; and Tuesday this week, as is our wont, we scheduled the annual steam-cleaning of the church carpet, "just in case, you know" as we always say (never had a puddle yet, but the timing still seems auspicious). Now at the moment here in Prairie Metropolis there is a serious shortage of labour -- unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled... and so the carpet cleaners, predictably, sent not a crew, as they've done before, but a lone operator. This in itself would not have been a problem; but the person they sent was a very young and intense Jehovah's Witness. At the sight of a lone clergy-person, female, very evident visions of "bonus conversion points" danced in his head; and he was NOT to be deflected, distracted, or thwarted in his fell purpose. I finally walked him to the front door, where he took his final theological stand amongst coils of vacuum cleaner hose, belabouring me with proof texts and rhetorical questions. Finally when he set about proving that the Sacred Threesome are just derived from "a lot of pagan beliefs"... I threw him out...not incidentally because the church he'd just cleaned is dedicated to the Most Holy and Undivided. Now ... do I call his employer and lay a complaint??? Anybody out there dealt with this one???