Sales calls, what is wrong with these people?

[centrarchidae]

What I really like to do: they start their spiel and I act all interested and I'm a buyer! I really play in and get them on the hook, then I put the phone down quietly and walk away.



They can talk to the cat.....

That's a horrible thing to do to the cat. Even if your cats are like every other cat in their ability to completely ignore you, the phone, and anything else that's not a laser pointer it's still cruel.

I do that too, thought. I save the rudeness for people who come to my door in person. Had a girl from CEA come by to talk about Amendment 66 (my house has one registered Republican, but also one CEA member who's behind on her dues). I let her go on for a few minutess and pretended to care. Then I asked if she liked buttsechs. While she was trying to figure out if I'd really asked that, I told her that if she didn't do anal she was wasting both of our times.

Hey, I had to do something. "Smithers, release the hounds!" doesn't work nearly as well when they hounds are lazy elderly golden retrievers who are far nicer than their owner or daddy or food bringer or whatever my title is this week.

[TFOGGER]

That's a horrible thing to do to the cat. Even if your cats are like every other cat in their ability to completely ignore you, the phone, and anything else that's not a laser pointer it's still cruel.

I do that too, thought. I save the rudeness for people who come to my door in person. Had a girl from CEA come by to talk about Amendment 66 (my house has one registered Republican, but also one CEA member who's behind on her dues). I let her go on for a few minutess and pretended to care. Then I asked if she liked buttsechs. While she was trying to figure out if I'd really asked that, I told her that if she didn't do anal she was wasting both of our times.

Hey, I had to do something. "Smithers, release the hounds!" doesn't work nearly as well when they hounds are lazy elderly golden retrievers who are far nicer than their owner or daddy or food bringer or whatever my title is this week.

[sellersm]

Guy walks up to my front door, which is opened (screen door is closed, but it has a "No Soliciting" sign on it), while I point to the "No Soliciting" sign, I ask him what he wants:
Him: "I want to know if you're interested in..."
Me: "Can't you read the No Soliciting sign?"
Him: "I'm not soliciting, I'm asking questions."
Me: "Wrong, you're soliciting answers so I'm not interested"
Him: starts arguing with me about some stupid use of words and defends himself
Me: "Perhaps you didn't understand me, I'm not interested, so I'm asking you to leave my property NOW."

He walks away still arguing, by this point it's more of mumbling to himself...

[Aloha_Shooter]

Guy walks up to my front door, which is opened (screen door is closed, but it has a "No Soliciting" sign on it)

We were told during the Morse recall that "No Soliciting" applies to salesmen but not to polltakers or people distributing political handouts. I still tended to give houses with "No Soliciting" signs a wide berth since I think most people think it means "don't bug me" but legally he was correct.

I've seen people supplement their "No Soliciting" signs with hand-drawn additions reading "No Handbills" and "Don't Bug Me".

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

That's a horrible thing to do to the cat. Even if your cats are like every other cat in their ability to completely ignore you, the phone, and anything else that's not a laser pointer it's still cruel.

I do that too, thought. I save the rudeness for people who come to my door in person. Had a girl from CEA come by to talk about Amendment 66 (my house has one registered Republican, but also one CEA member who's behind on her dues). I let her go on for a few minutess and pretended to care. Then I asked if she liked buttsechs. While she was trying to figure out if I'd really asked that, I told her that if she didn't do anal she was wasting both of our times.

Hey, I had to do something. "Smithers, release the hounds!" doesn't work nearly as well when they hounds are lazy elderly golden retrievers who are far nicer than their owner or daddy or food bringer or whatever my title is this week.

OMG, this is hilarious.

[spqrzilla]

I hate people who come to my door uninvited. (Except for the 8 year old who comes over to beg "chores" from my wife to make soda money - at least I hope he's buying soda with it)

A process server showed up at my door some months ago around 11PM, and asks for a person who does not live at my address. I told him "You are lost. No one lives here by that name." He demanded to know where that person was living to which I answered "NO idea. Beat it." He then starts trying to tell me that I "have" to answer his questions etc. I told him that he does not give orders on my property and that if he wasn't off it in seconds, that I would have local PD arrest him.

I hate process servers. Lying scum the lot of them.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Calls are easy to ignore. It's the damn solicitors talking to me with a 'no solicitor' sign at eye height that drives me crazy.