Because, I've angered the Karma Gods, and you're my punishment

I have to walk past the subway station to get to the supermarket and just recently there have been a rash of God-botherers.

( I wonder what the collective noun is, troop maybe or an exaltation?)

The weather here is postively balmy at PLUS 2 degrees C. The first above freezing temp in ages, and the sun was shining. I'm telling you this to in some way explain my lapse in concentration.

You see I forgot two important rules.

1. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

2. There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'

Walking back from said supermarket, carrying a shopping bag in each hand, singing a little to myself as I often do, I'm brought to an unexpected stop by a small pamphlet shoved almost inside my coat.

And the words " JesusChristLordAndSaviour" muttered at me.

Did I mention that both hands were full?

Now I'd already said a polite no thanks when I walked past him on the way to the supermarket, what made him think in the intervening 20 minutes I would have changed my mind? Am I supposed to have had a vision in the frozen food aisle? Seen the error of my ways while selecting mushrooms?

Don't get me wrong, I have complete respect for other peoples religious beliefs, all I ask is some in return.

So, I may have been a little snippy when I said 'No thanks I'm Buddhist'.

He said ' Jesus Christ is the only Lord and Saviour' as he starts following me.

Do you see the fatal flaw he made there?

(At this point in writing this, I can almost feel/hear my brother and sister back in Dublin cringing and start to feel sorry for the guy)

What did I say?

What the (expletive deleted) are you doing, you (humourous expletive deleted)? Get the hell away from me!

That's some bad karma I've collected there.