Geeso Petes! 16!
You need to move, Eb.
I was worried about getting into trouble, but instead there was a slew of interesting reactions.
I had to work, but didn't have a lunch. So I decided to stop at the grocery store on my way in to work. Sure enough...there they were in the parking lot. I parked to make sure I got approached.
Politely declined on the grounds I don't pledge to any man or any 0ne’s policies. I think they missed the pun, but I did offer them the opportunity to Pledge Allegiance to the Republic of the United States. The other person who had been filling out the form and asked what I was talking about. I simply restated that my pledge is the America as a whole country, not to just one man's policies. She took her sheet of the clipboard and tore it up and asked to sign mine as we walked away.
Sure enough as I got to work, there was someone there trying to get signatures. This time though it was a highschool student who volunteers their time to work with the injured animals brought in. I declined and explained where my true loyalties rested and went on inside to work. When I looked out the window, they were gone.
Coming home I needed to stop at the drugstore. Shoot, there was another group of them! I pulled my little Pledge of Allegiance sheet out and approached them. Again several people listening to what I simply stated as my reason for declining asked for their forms back and tore them up.
At the rate I've been going today I am thinking we should have had FReepers in the area or 912’ers. We could have successfully & peacefully countered these actions.
There is a group canvassing later this evening at the local faux mall. Might be just enough fun to have one more go at them.