Ha! I actually do that. I've been all over the Boston area going door to door. And I've done street preaching at Filene's Basement downtown. I moved from there in 2002, back to my little hometown in Idaho - Fruitland. I go door to door here too. It's really different when every other person that opens the door knew you when you were a bratty kid! But if you believe as I do, then you politely try anyway. If someone's not interested, I move on (that's extremely common by the way). The key for me is I like these people. A lot. And, like King, I believe firmly in evil and what it can do to a person. Maybe that's why I enjoy his books so much. Well, that and the exceptional writing. Man he can write a sentence or two. Breathtaking sometimes.
I'll tell you a funny story along those lines. I'm a local lawyer - a general practice in a very small town. I once defended a guy that tried really hard to get at me through the jail-house glass. He was extremely angry at me. I was disappointed, because I was doing my best for him, but there it was. Anyway, he got a different lawyer. Some years later, two or three, I'm going door to door on a Saturday morning and whose doorbell should I ring but his. He's dressed in boxers and nothing else. We immediately recognize each other. While I'm wondering if he's going to come at me there on the doorstep I do my thing and invite him to church. He looks me up and down and then says, "No thanks. We're Lutheran." I didn't laugh at the time because I'd rather not create any trouble. But I laughed a lot later at that.
Kelly