Don't come around here no more....
What not to do when you knock on my door and want to sell me something.
Got a knock on the door a few minutes ago. A guy standing out on the driveway asks when the last time I had my attic insulation looked at? I reply that I can't remember, but it was a few years ago, and I'm not interested in anything right now. But, instead of taking the hint, he keeps going. "Well, do you think you might be interested a few years from now?" And I reply, "No, thanks, I don't think so, but have a nice day." He's already told me he works for "Brand Name Siding Company", which I happen to have on my house, but he's not the guy I dealt with and I'm not going to do business with him. For one thing, he's got a wad of chewing tobacco in his lower lip and I'm just waiting to see if he's going to spit somewhere on my driveway. He finally gets the hint and moves off, but then another guy in the same kind of jacket, who's standing at the foot of the driveway, yells up to me "Hey, Ma'am, what's the area code for this area?" Really ? You can't even be bothered to look in the phone book before you head out to find out the area code? I don't think so!
So: lose the chew, be at least somewhat informed about your surroundings and learn to take "No" for an answer. I try to be polite, I work with the public and I know firsthand how utterly rude they can be about things, but "No" means "No"...not "keep on badgering me to buy something from you." Thank you , and have a nice day! (And I'm not particularly anti-tobacco, but I don't really want to see/speak to people who have a wad of it in their mouth when they're trying to get my business. And if they don't know where they are, how can I trust that they'll come out to take care of any problems I might have? We've had the siding on for a while now and one of the slats slid away from the side of the house. I called my guy and he was out the same day to push it back into place...and since it had done this before, he put a nail into it, where you wouldn't see it, so it wouldn't move again. Something to do with the expansion and contraction with the temperature changes. Him, I'll deal with, not some guy who's not sure where he is.)
Got a knock on the door a few minutes ago. A guy standing out on the driveway asks when the last time I had my attic insulation looked at? I reply that I can't remember, but it was a few years ago, and I'm not interested in anything right now. But, instead of taking the hint, he keeps going. "Well, do you think you might be interested a few years from now?" And I reply, "No, thanks, I don't think so, but have a nice day." He's already told me he works for "Brand Name Siding Company", which I happen to have on my house, but he's not the guy I dealt with and I'm not going to do business with him. For one thing, he's got a wad of chewing tobacco in his lower lip and I'm just waiting to see if he's going to spit somewhere on my driveway. He finally gets the hint and moves off, but then another guy in the same kind of jacket, who's standing at the foot of the driveway, yells up to me "Hey, Ma'am, what's the area code for this area?" Really ? You can't even be bothered to look in the phone book before you head out to find out the area code? I don't think so!
So: lose the chew, be at least somewhat informed about your surroundings and learn to take "No" for an answer. I try to be polite, I work with the public and I know firsthand how utterly rude they can be about things, but "No" means "No"...not "keep on badgering me to buy something from you." Thank you , and have a nice day! (And I'm not particularly anti-tobacco, but I don't really want to see/speak to people who have a wad of it in their mouth when they're trying to get my business. And if they don't know where they are, how can I trust that they'll come out to take care of any problems I might have? We've had the siding on for a while now and one of the slats slid away from the side of the house. I called my guy and he was out the same day to push it back into place...and since it had done this before, he put a nail into it, where you wouldn't see it, so it wouldn't move again. Something to do with the expansion and contraction with the temperature changes. Him, I'll deal with, not some guy who's not sure where he is.)