The plague of neighborhood solicitors and other neighborhood observations.

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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I had this guy selling some magic cleaner and I couldn't get him to go away...he basically barged his way in to show me how it would clean my stove and when I wouldn't buy any he was a total asshole....I couldn't believe how rude he got it was like are you serious???
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Not exactly door to door solicitation, but this winter we had an issue. My husband went out to shovel the drive and found a guy unloading a snowblower at the bottom of our driveway. "I'm just going to get this cleaned for you." My husband isn't a tiny, frail looking guy. "No dude," he says with shovel in hand, "I've got this." "No, I've got it. I'll get it for you." "Dude, the driveway is gravel. You don't got it." The guy finally left, but had Mark not gone out at that point, the guy would have done his thing and would have demanded payment. Um, no.

    He does listen to death metal, so perhaps I should keep some at the ready in the living room.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    deadendp said:

    Not exactly door to door solicitation, but this winter we had an issue. My husband went out to shovel the drive and found a guy unloading a snowblower at the bottom of our driveway. "I'm just going to get this cleaned for you." My husband isn't a tiny, frail looking guy. "No dude," he says with shovel in hand, "I've got this." "No, I've got it. I'll get it for you." "Dude, the driveway is gravel. You don't got it." The guy finally left, but had Mark not gone out at that point, the guy would have done his thing and would have demanded payment. Um, no.

    He does listen to death metal, so perhaps I should keep some at the ready in the living room.

    Lamb of God and Species would work. I used to play Christian heavy Metal to get the Jehovah's Witnesses.. To Hell With The Devil by Stryper had an amazing effect.. Guess I need to
    Up
    Date the music.. Lol
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Oh, we have LofGod. We also have Behemoth and a variety of others which I think would probably scare them to death.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    deadendp said:

    Oh, we have LofGod. We also have Behemoth and a variety of others which I think would probably scare them to death.

    Yeah LOG( omg I can't stop laugh at that!! Like theory of a Deadman is TOAD) usually scares anyone.. Too much for me.. That's for sure!
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Election season is the worst. I live next to a voting place and even though they're not supposed to be x amount of feet from the entrance they just stay on the corner and try to catch you when you walk by. I have to pass them to get where I'm going, there's no way around them. Finally just started responding with "not a citizen" and they immediately turn away like suddenly you're invisible.
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  • Amongst the Ani
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    imalive said:

    how about the meat guy who "has some extra steaks because" (some phony reason) or the kids selling magazines in order to "stay off drugs"?

    I had 2 ass clowns come by last week with that. It wasn't to keep them off drugs but to buy inner city youths some books. I know its a scam but sometimes I will say I can't pay for what you want but here is 5 bucks. These two were ass clowns as at first they went 'we cant take donations' and said no. One then looked at the other and said can't we just add it to another order and took my money. The whole time I had this annoyed look. If you want the money just take it, I don't need the crap that goes with it.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    cdysinge said:

    Live in a neighborhood with an HOA that doesn't allow door to door solicitors. Doesn't stop the JW's or Mormons but you now what does. Put Slayer on in the background when you see them coming, tell them you have taken Lucifer as your god and tell them you would like them to come in so you can discuss the virtues of your god to convert them. As tempted as they will be to try and convert you they will be too scared to come in. They will want to talk to you on your porch, keep inisting you will only talk to them in your house. They will leave and never come back. It worked like a charm the last 2 houses we lived at. They skipped my house every time after that.

    Slightly off topic .... I was walking in a neighbourhood park a few days ago and saw some new graffiti on a stone bench - "666 I love Satin". Either a poorly educated Satanist or a rogue textiles major.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.
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  • Amongst the Ani
    Amongst the Ani @Wobbie Posts: 7,790
    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Parents apparently went to Dumb Ass University themselves.

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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    cdysinge said:

    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Parents apparently went to Dumb Ass University themselves.

    Lol!!
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    oftenreading said:

    cdysinge said:

    Live in a neighborhood with an HOA that doesn't allow door to door solicitors. Doesn't stop the JW's or Mormons but you now what does. Put Slayer on in the background when you see them coming, tell them you have taken Lucifer as your god and tell them you would like them to come in so you can discuss the virtues of your god to convert them. As tempted as they will be to try and convert you they will be too scared to come in. They will want to talk to you on your porch, keep inisting you will only talk to them in your house. They will leave and never come back. It worked like a charm the last 2 houses we lived at. They skipped my house every time after that.

    Slightly off topic .... I was walking in a neighbourhood park a few days ago and saw some new graffiti on a stone bench - "666 I love Satin". Either a poorly educated Satanist or a rogue textiles major.
    :lol:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    cdysinge said:

    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Parents apparently went to Dumb Ass University themselves.

    or possibly took the sham athlete classes at Carolina.

    If I had known then what I know now...

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    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,162
    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Just so the parents can brag later that their kid done better than they. Isn't that what every parent wants for there kid, for them to do better than they?

    My dad told me about his first job out of college. Yup, door to door, selling knives. Had to go to a training thing where they told you how to demonstrate each knife and it's utility and how to sell to those stay at home moms. This was in the early 50's. So my dad got all excited because he mastered the art of "selling" knives in the all day training session and he was released to sell. Big black carrying case the size of a carry on full of knives. Goes to the first house, rings the bell and lo and behold, his verbal selling skills get him in for the demo. And that, along with making the rounds after 9:00 and before 4:00, when the husbands weren't home to tell you to get lost, was the key to getting rich. So he goes in, does his demo, the lady is totally buying it, he's psyched to make his first sale and is going to be rich, when it comes time for the demo of the blades' durability by cutting a penny in half with the kitchen shears. And he puts the penny in, give the spiel and clamps down on the scissors. Well, the penny is indeed cut in half but one half gets shot like a bullet clear across the living room and takes out the Tiffany lamp. Shattered glass everywhere, aghast house wife and my dad packing his things up, apologizing and backing out of the house like cat and the hat. Resigned that very day right after. He lasted one house! Part of the reason I'm such a degenerate.
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  • Amongst the Ani
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    Halifax2TheMax said:

    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Part of the reason I'm such a degenerate.
    Very cool story. Don't you think though that you were going to be a degenerate no matter what though? You could have been born to Mitt Romney and it wouldn't change anything.
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    cdysinge said:

    Halifax2TheMax said:

    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Part of the reason I'm such a degenerate.
    Very cool story. Don't you think though that you were going to be a degenerate no matter what though? You could have been born to Mitt Romney and it wouldn't change anything.
    Then H2tM would be mormon and soliciting religion door to door and this thread would be about him :lol:
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,162
    cdysinge said:

    Halifax2TheMax said:

    deadendp said:

    ^^ Neighborhood observations seem absolutely fair in this conversation.

    We walk in the evenings through the one housing development that connects to our neighborhood. It was around graduation time and there was a huge banner hanging on a house. "Excepted to Duke with full honors."

    Excepted? Okay then.

    Part of the reason I'm such a degenerate.
    Very cool story. Don't you think though that you were going to be a degenerate no matter what though? You could have been born to Mitt Romney and it wouldn't change anything.
    Best laugh of the day and now you have me thinking. Would I be a bigger or lesser degenerate having been born to Mitt and his cult of personality? I might have done better with my bracket, that's fer sure.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    Hmmm, maybe I could have worked the Olympics? Driven a shuttle bus or something. Lit the flame? Mergers and acquisitions, maybe? Done the sound check for dad before the big speeches? Testing, testing, 1,2,3. Testing, testing. You look marvelous. Testing. Testing.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
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    Halifax2TheMax said:

    Hmmm, maybe I could have worked the Olympics? Driven a shuttle bus or something. Lit the flame? Mergers and acquisitions, maybe? Done the sound check for dad before the big speeches? Testing, testing, 1,2,3. Testing, testing. You look marvelous. Testing. Testing.

    I would love to see the abject look on a jehova witness when you answer the door wearing your immaculate bathrobe that you possess.
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,162
    And invite them in, ask them to remove their shoes and socks and wiggle their toes in the litter whilst we discuss the Cult of the Turtle? Mitt would be so proud.
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