Last night I had an interesting appointment. I went to this home with the intention of giving the husband a quote on some life insurance. As I entered I felt a little tension in the room and the husband gave me the impression tha he was not very happy about me being there. Half way through my questions I was not feeling very good about the appointment. This guy had to reveal to me that he had his driver’s license revoked, had served time on a felony, and was currently on probation. I’m immediately thinking that the underwriters are going to decline this application. This particular policy requires you to be on a bank draft. Well you guessed it he didn’t have a checking account and he immediately told me that he didn’t want the policy. Oh well, waisted trip I thought.
Before I left the 71 year old mother in law asked me if i could write a policy on her. I told her that I would try and immediately started asking her all of the medical questions. The husband in the mean time when back to where his wife was and turned up his music. When he did that the battle was on. She accused him of cheating on her. He accused her of smoking crack. The 71 year old mother just dropped her head. I prayed for my life. All I can think of is he fact that this guy has done time and I’m a witness to it all. I just kept asking my questions. I may die tonight but I would die doing my duty.
Well after about 20 minutes and realizing I was still there they hushed and I could hear her crying. She told him that she was cold. “Do you want a blanket?” was his reply. “No, I want you to warm me up.” Gross I thought. Mom sign here. She signed and I was out of there…thankfully…alive.
Goodness! That had to be freaky.
So you might have died last night…BEFORE I called you disgusting huh? You just wanted to make me feel bad.
Now that you know the situation, pray for that family: the 71 year old lady, her daughter and son-in-law.
JB, I’m curious, would you have handled it differently if you were visiting as a pastor and someone had given you their name as a church prospect and then the evening proceeded as it did?
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egad.
This is why I didn’t like “house calls” during my insurance tour de duty
Maybe God put you there for a reason!?
I was asleep in the chair and got up to turn the computer off and go to bed and saw your call for help. I can’t imagine which was worse, the part where he was accusing the wife of smoking crack and she was accusing him of cheating on her, or the part where she wanted him to warm her up. Eeewwwweee!
Going AFK!