thanks for the welcome to the cellar! :)

Oh, when I come to the door now, I am always visibly armed... when they see the holster most usually cut the conversation short. This has become a real boon with dealing with this kind of thing.
We are dealing with a serious influx of these "wanna' buy beef and fish wholesale?" scumbags and kids soliciting for drug programs that cannot be checked-out. Those are usually for drug dealers, churches that are not official or cults. The last two being the same thing.
They always say that they helped them get off of drugs, but they look malnourished, dirty and overworked.

Do you come to the door armed during halloween?

Haha. Some years ago (before my Bro taught me the fun to be had just inviting them in for a drink and challenging as many of their precepts as you can before they give up and leave) I had a very large dog called Sarah. Now, Sarah was big and had a big slavery mouth complete with big slavery bark.....but was in fact very sweet. When I opened the door to the jovos she'd hurtle out fangs dripping and I'd grab her collar and heave her back (making it look much harder to do than it in fact was) and call her Satan instead of Sarah.

I find standing in the picture window, 4 ft away, watching them ring the doorbell but not answering it works well. If they persist, "Get the fuck off my property", is reasonably effective. there is no reason to be polite to them, they don't think twice about treading on your life.

Telephone solicitation is illegal if you tell them not to.

I do, but I prefer to carry concealed.

As far as the salesbeasts ... no one's found the bodies yet.

(I live in a complex with a no soliciting rule that is generally obeyed.)

I used to be a door to door salesperson. I have to say that in my experience most people were pretty nice to deal with and it was very rare that anyone ever shut the door on me.

It was actually a pretty cool job for an 18yr old, and it paid really well as far as I was concerned.

These days if someone knocks on my door, I usually see if it's anything I'd be interested in, but if it's anyone about religion, I just show them my crucifix and they're usually on their way.

I sold raffle tickets to raise money for football and I was treated pretty well.

My Grandfather used to turn the hose on Jehovas (sp?) Witnesses.

I have this urge to answer the door in the total buff one Saturday and then see how far they get through their spiel!


"Ahh, who's your God now, you evangelists?!"


...one day.

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Me too!

Unless I'm expecting someone, I'm ignoring it just like the damn phone.

I hope that is a joke.
Did you pass by houses with no soliciting signs?

Bet you a dollar it wasn't.

Actually I used to do door-to-door sales (and telesales and showroom sales) and I always passed by the No Canvassers signs.

rkz...hardly anyone over here has them, but the ones that do we bypassed. On that note though, it was always funny if the owner of one of those houses happened to be in the yard while we were doing our rounds. They were ALWAYS the ones who'd beckon us over and ask what we were doing.

I guess no one wants to miss out. ;)