This keeps happening to me and now I’m wondering how widespread it is, because it seems nobody I know ever had this experience: You get on a train that doesn’t stop for a good while, e.g. Zürich to Sargans, and after some time a bunch of kids wearing white shirts and suit pants or skirts/dresses might ask to sit next to you. Of course they’re Mormons (they have nametags with “Elder Soandso” or “Sister Soandso”) and they’re on a mission in Switzerland trying to proselytize. I think it’s rude to do this with a captive audience in a train, but if they’re not handing out leaflets it’s not even illegal, at least it’s not against the Zugordnung. They’re “just talking to people”. The same seems to happen to me near train stations, or in other places with a lot of foot traffic in Zürich. Last time I simply complimented them on learning German to a conversational level so quickly (they said it took them six months) and that was that. But as a bünzli I feel my privacy slightly invaded by these encounters and it took me several attempts to be able to stay friendly and just send them away. What are your feelings on this? How do you/would you react? submitted by /u/psy-q
Originally posted by u/psy-q on r/Switzerland