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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on May 18, 2012, 02:11:27 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002702184
Oh my.
MerryBlooms (1,246 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
I'm so tired of door-to-door salesmen!
It wouldn't be so bad if they would stop trying to bully me after I've said, 'No, Thank you'. I get times are tough and people are aggressively trying to make a living, but geez, who the heck wants to buy something from a jerk!
I am so miffed!
HopeHoops (31,130 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Dogs help.
malaise (92,232 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. I was about to post
Where's the dog?
RebelOne (23,388 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. I usually say thanks, but no thanks and shut the door in their face
plus my barking Chihuahua helps to get rid of them.
MerryBlooms (1,246 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. I hate to be rude, but they almost force you to slam the door in their face.
Arugula Latte (36,050 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Do you have a "No Soliciting" sign up?
I do, and I've gotten far, far fewer door knocks since I put that up.
snagglepuss (8,167 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. Why not put a No Solicitations and a Beware of Dog sign on your door?
I dunno; I really doubt door-to-door salesmen are a problem these days.
It's a dying, or near-dead, thing, door-to-door selling.
Because I live where I live, stoppers-by are always welcomed in, after we both have a nice chat.
The only thing I can't figure out is that Jehovah's Witnesses, courteously invited in to give me their spiel, and made comfortable, have the habit of abruptly upping and leaving. No other guests do that, and I consider that an insult to my cordial hospitality.
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Is it possible to kill a Jehovah's witness with kindness ?
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Stop answering the f@#$-ing door then! Ever heard of a peephole?
I didn't even know door-to-door salesmen still existed.
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Asshole. Out there working for a living. Doesn't he know they have government programs for Americans that refuse to do "those jobs".[LazyDUmmie/mode]
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I didn't know there were still door-to-door salesmen.
I would assume they're Irish Travellers and call the police.
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College kids still do it (mostly magazine subscriptions and other junk). I can usually count on getting a small handful knocking on my door when the weather turns warm.
Haven't seen any this year.
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They'll find anything to bitch about. I haven't seen a door-to-door salesman in I don't know how long. They're making it up just to bitch.
The door-to-doors I get are political in nature. Some weird dude showed up sometime in late 2008, or early 2009, declared himself proudly as a "community organizer." I looked at him with abject horror and wouldn't sign what cockamamie petition he had. I'm usually very polite, but I shut the door in his face. Community organizer.
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I would have signed my neighbor's name.
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Jehovah Witness's will also lie to you. A couple showed up at my door one time and told me they were there the morning before doing a bible study with my wife, and wanted to continue. I told them I know nothing about that and said I was busy. That night I asked my wife about it and she said she wasn't home the previous morning. I looked at her schedule, and she was right. She wasn't home at the time.
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I do order entry for door to door salesmen for Comcast in Colorado, new Mexico and Oregon, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen a door to door salesman here in Texas.
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I get the occasional neighborhood kid that wants to sell me a $1.00 candybar for $2.00. It always seems to be for a good cause so I can always be counted on to buy a couple. Other than that, nothing. No Fuller Brush men spotted around these parts.
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malaise (92,232 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. I was about to post
Where's the dog?
I'm not sure if the malaise primitive is trying to be helpful, or trying to give the MerryBlossoms primitive tips on how to get Obumbles to show up for her next potluck.
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I get the occasional neighborhood kid that wants to sell me a $1.00 candybar for $2.00. It always seems to be for a good cause so I can always be counted on to buy a couple. Other than that, nothing. No Fuller Brush men spotted around these parts.
Those kids who sell candy are awesome. We don't get them here much, unless they live at the complex.
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I don't consider Girl Scouts, or kids selling candy for their marching band, to be door-to-door salesmen.
I'm thinking of the Fuller Brush Man, or encylopedia salesmen.
Once when we were first starting out, my wife let an Encyclopedia Britannica guy give about a two-hour spiel.
No sale.
At the time I couldn't afford Sports Illustrated.
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The worst are when they say "Not only am I a Jehovah's Witness, I also sell insurance."
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The worst are when they say "Not only am I a Jehovah's Witness, I also sell insurance."
Well, I'm not sure.
When the occasional stray pair of Jehovah's Witnesses (there's always two of them) show up here, I cordially invite them in, and they cordially accept.
While they're eyeballing the interior of the dining and living rooms, I cordially offer them coffee, tea, milk, or orange juice, whatever suits their taste-buds.
But then they quickly exit.
I suspect, really, that it's all the framed artwork on the walls--this place is a veritable portrait gallery, remember--which includes the standard old-fashioned (now an antique) Sacred Heart of Jesus portrait, a Ukrainian Orthodox icon of the Virgin and Child, an authentic peasant painting of Christ teaching the children, a photograph of the late Pope Paul VI, and a silver-plated crucifix hanging above the thermostat.
There's 108 framed portraits on the walls of the two rooms, most of them of English kings and queens and copies of other portraits by Holbein, plus a framed caricature of franksolich in the gulag, but they don't seem to notice those.
I suspect they don't appreciate diversity.
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They're afraid that coach knows how to kill Jehovah's witnesses, with kindness.