Christian Carpet Cleaners

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I was driving to visit my mother and saw a van with a logo on the side. It said "Christian Carpet Cleaning". I thought, why in the world would anyone need to know the religious inclination of the people cleaning their carpets? Or do the cleaners restrict themselves to cleaning for Christians and Christian organizations? That'd be weird too. I puzzled over this for the better part of my drive, and eventually remembered to mention it to my mother. She laughed and told me: Christian is their last name.:laugh2:
 
We have a Christian optometrist here, and it really means it in the religious way.

My daughter went there as it was one of her insurance providers, and the proprietor was a Middle Eastern immigrant who got pretty pushy about whether she was a saved Christian or not.

I wondered if he was sincere, or thought it was a good way around the prejudice some people have after 9/11.
 
Hate when business is using religion to promote their business. It will NEVER get me to shop them. What's the most important to me when it come to shop business: how good they are, how honest they are, and how reliable they are.
 
Bottesini said:
We have a Christian optometrist here, and it really means it in the religious way.

My daughter went there as it was one of her insurance providers, and the proprietor was a Middle Eastern immigrant who got pretty pushy about whether she was a saved Christian or not.

I wondered if he was sincere, or thought it was a good way around the prejudice some people have after 9/11.
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not understand meaning of prejudice 9/11?
 
i have two friends have their names as "christian" (one with first name and another one with last name). nothing is wrong with it.
 
Did someone say something was wrong with it?
 
amylynne said:
I was driving to visit my mother and saw a van with a logo on the side. It said "Christian Carpet Cleaning". I thought, why in the world would anyone need to know the religious inclination of the people cleaning their carpets? Or do the cleaners restrict themselves to cleaning for Christians and Christian organizations? That'd be weird too. I puzzled over this for the better part of my drive, and eventually remembered to mention it to my mother. She laughed and told me: Christian is their last name.:laugh2:
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Many Christians prefer to do business with Christian businesses. We even have our own "yellow pages"

It also may have been the last name.
 
TXgolfer said:
Many Christians prefer to do business with Christian businesses. We even have our own "yellow pages"

It also may have been the last name.
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It was definitely the last name. My mom said she knows the family.
 
I kind of figured this was the last name. No one would run a successful rug cleaning business proclaiming their religion.
 
On a second read, I'm wondering if moondancer maybe thought my laughing smiley meant I was laughing at their name. I wasn't doing that at all. I was laughing at myself for the fact that it never occured to me that it could have been a name. (I know people with Christian for a first name or last name too. I mean that in that context I just didn't think of it.)

In my head, Christian Carpet Cleaners would have been in a group with

strikingly attractive carpet cleaners,
Painfully neurotic carpet cleaners, and
strictly vegetarian carpet cleaners.

but really the group would look more like

Fergusson Carpet Cleaners,
Smitrovich Carpet Cleaners, and
DiCicio Carpet Cleaners.

The contrast between the reality and my misunderstanding just hit me hard and cracked me up, that's all. The name just by itself is absolutely as good as any other name.
 
As an atheist, I am no more inclined to do business with any religious based business or even a business that is something like Atheist carpet cleaners. I find the whole notion rather silly. My last insurance agent had every inch of her building covered in christian stuff.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Then why did you say this "It also may have been the last name."

when the OP already said was their last name???
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I'm not too worried about it. You understood me, that's enough for me.

I also once got a job at a bar called Fisher's Inn. You could order food from the kitchen, and there was a dining room that doubled as a club-type area on some weekend nights. I thought "I'll have to try the fish sometime." Turns out it was not great. I thought that was odd - you'd think they'd have good fish. You know where this is going, right?
 
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