What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Duke Nivram]

I get up, look out the side window, they see me, I see them. If I know them the door gets opened. If they're children the door gets opened. If they're adults, especially if they have pamphlets or a clipboard I walk away.

if they are selling girl scout cookies i run to the door

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

I get up, look out the side window, they see me, I see them. If I know them the door gets opened. If they're children the door gets opened. If they're adults, especially if they have pamphlets or a clipboard I walk away.

I don't even get up.
I look at the door camera on my phone. If it's someone I don't know I don't even move.

 

[kronin323]

Please enlighten me, Mr. Font.

Sorry, old SNL skit, started after Jaws came out. The LandShark knocks on people's doors and pretends to be a repairman, salesman, candygram, etc. until the victim opens the door and the LandShark attacks and eats them.

It became a reoccurring bit and a pop culture reference.

 

[Duke Nivram]

wife calls someone scratched the other side of the van !@#%$#%$^@#$@#%^@$@#$%@$%%!@#%$@#%!!!

 

[kronin323]

Sounds like somebody's got a grudge...

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

wife calls someone scratched the other side of the van !@#%$#%$^@#$@#%^@$@#$%@$%%!@#%$@#%!!!

That is not cool at all. What the ****?!?!?!?!

 

[QLR1]

No means no. "But you didn't even look at what I'm selling". I have no money. So there.

 

[kronin323]

A few years ago my FIL kept getting his car vandalized, eventually the cops rigged his car with a hidden camera. Turns out it was an old, ex-business partner.

 

[kronin323]

No means no. "But you didn't even look at what I'm selling". I have no money. So there.

You can't win. I used to give them a chance to go through their spiel before telling them no. Then one time a guy got pissed that I'd "wasted his time" letting him go through it all instead of saying no up front. WTF?!? I'm talking so aggressively pissed that I had to call the cops. And arm myself. It was really crazy.

So now, if one's lucky enough to pin me down (like while I'm doing work in the front) I just tell them no up front and if they give me that "but you don't yet know what I'm selling" BS I just tell them I don't care. If I'm feeling polite.

AT&T has been very aggressive in my neighborhood lately. If they don't catch you the first time they keep coming back. The other day I heard The Wife tell them no like four times and they kept asking to speak to me instead. I so much enjoy the look on their faces when I tell them to F off...

 

[QLR1]

To top it off, he was selling counterfeit movies and music.