Well, This Isn’t Good…
Posted by Erin (and sometimes The Todd) on Feb 28, 2010 in Erin's Diatribes/The Todd's Tastes |
Got one of those annoying chirpy door to door salesmen today. (Editor’s note: you know, the early 20′s, terrifyingly clean-cut, obnoxiously cheerfully persistent sort that swear they’re neighborhood kids when you know they minivan their way across the country like a swarm of magazine-selling locusts?) Anyway, I wanted to get rid of him quickly so I told him I was the maid and didn’t know when the owners would be home. He actually believed me and said “oh, of course you’re the housecleaner. Sorry. When do you think the owners will be back?”
I’ve got to start dressing better. And he didn’t see this, by the way.
Nope. It was more like this.
Maybe brush my hair, or something…
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Hey at least you got out of the sales pitch. I am going to have to try that, but when they come to the door, I am going to say something like.. Do you know when the owners will be back, oh Man… I better hurry!!
Caren, I picture you more as the cat burglar interrupted in your devious work. That’s glamorous, at least!
how did you resist the urge not to blow your cover by cussing him out for his lippy comment?!
You’re funny! If he had shown up at my house, ONE LOOK at my house and he’d understand why I looked that way! lol
Hahaha….that was funny! My best one was: Are your parents home? Sigh… I told him. I AM the parent here!
How rude! But you could also look at it in the sense that he thought your home looked nice enough to be the type of household that would have a maid!
Yeah, Kristie, I’ll go with that. I’m still going to brush my hair, though.
We have a no soliciting sign on our door, and you can bet most people either ignore it or don’t know what it means. I used to just point at it and say, that means “No You.” However, now we have right under it a picture of our guard dog and a sign that says this house is protected by a guard dog. Plus we have four signs placed on each side of our fence now about our guard dog.
We haven’t gotten a solicitor or any chuch affiliations knocking on our door since then.