ARGHH! Losers at my door selling magazines

[Balt]

Those guys stopped by our college apartment a couple of times a year.

Fortunately for me I wasn't the one who answered the door, so I just stayed in my room.

 

[gistech1978]

one kid came to my apt in college.
i listened to his spiel about his disney world trip or something and i told him 'not interested'.
he asked me if he could come in for a glass of water.
i said , "nope, all my glasses are dirty" (which was true) he said 'oh' and i shut the door on him. maybe i should have just gave him a dirty glass in hindsight.

i do not care for those magazine solicitors.
especially when there was a private property/no soliciting sign at the entrance of the parking lot.

 

[Nitemare]

Most of those are rip-offs, did score some knock off cologne that was pretty good though

 

[imported_Strang]

I had some solicitors stop by on Tuesday. My gf and I were home watching TV and this girl knocks on my door, so I answered and she asked me if I was the man of the house (which she somewhat rudely responded to with shock when I said that I was), then promptly went into the spiel (which was so stilted and poorly rehearsed that I could barely follow it) about how she was with a group that wanted to create jobs for people and how she would get to go to some managing seminar if she sold enough magazines. And so blah blah blah, you want to help create jobs, don't you? "Yeah, I guess."

And so she continued on and on, prompting me to say "yes" about whether or not I wanted to stimulate the economy, asked what kind of job I have (computers, which got me a handshake...) and then handed over the list of magazines and started the actual sales pitch. Having already been through a few of these, I said flat out that I'd just moved and couldn't afford it (the first of which was true and, frankly, the second of which is close enough to the truth), at which point she bristled and *very* rudely said "I didn't even say how much they were yet, you said you were in computers and you can't even afford some magazines?" She then stomped off and sat out on the sidewalk with her other solicitors before pestering my neighbors.

So I was fuming impotently in my own rage for awhile, having basically just been called a cheapskate for not wanting to get scammed. And yeah, I'm a wuss, but I'm comfortable in that.

What amused me was that around 8pm that night, I got another knock on my door from another girl in her group who wanted to use my phone because their ride hadn't picked up yet. She was polite about it and so I let her use my cell to call about 10 different hotel rooms, which is when I heard her say what her main concern was -- whether or not the driver of the van was picked up by the cops, since he'd already been busted more than once for driving without a license! She was speaking to the supervisor of the group, which makes it sound like what HomeBrewerDude said, runaways or in any case poorly supervised kids.

I guess I should put up a no soliciting sign...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Megamorph

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
So let me get this. You saw people climibing the wall to your area and just went inside??

THAT IS WHY YOU CALL THE POLICE!!! Damm no whonder people break into cars or houses in the middle of the day, they know idiots like you will just go hide somewhere and not tell anyone.

Actually, you are the idiot. Climbing the wall is not a crime.

Chances are if there is a wall, it's trespassing to climb it. I know in several communities around here it is. You don't necessarily have to have a no trespassing sign...this is the case when their is no perimeter fencing/restriction.

 

[yllus]

That sucks. You really should have said something like "good luck guys, but personally I'm not interested." You'd have saved yourself a vandalized door. It's not really the best idea to piss off strangers when they know where you live.

 

[AvesPKS]

Hel-lo my name is Steve...

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: Strangone
...So I was fuming impotently...

LOL!

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: Megamorph

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
So let me get this. You saw people climibing the wall to your area and just went inside??

THAT IS WHY YOU CALL THE POLICE!!! Damm no whonder people break into cars or houses in the middle of the day, they know idiots like you will just go hide somewhere and not tell anyone.

Actually, you are the idiot. Climbing the wall is not a crime.

you're right, climbing a wall isn't a crime, but stepping onto the other side is. it's called trespassing. in gate communities, the area within the gates (the common area) is usually owned by the neighborhood association. that makes it private property.

 

[nakedfrog]

I find it entertaining to just start doing one of their sales pitches right back at them, simultaneously.

 

[axelfox]

I was sitting around with two other co-workers trying figure out how to scam my company out of money we thought they owed us. We were figuring out how to launder the money so we wouldn't get caught until this guy posing as a former crack head tries to sell us magazines. Since he used to be a crack head we thought he knew some drug dealers so that we could launder some money.

Turns out he wasn't a former crack head but really an out of work programmer with a competitors of ours. Since he knew some of the same people we knew, I had to buy a bunch of magazines so that he wouldn't rat us out.

Damn!



Isn't it much funnier in the 1st person?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: DWW
Question

What is "nappy hair"?

I hear it in reference to black people a lot... is it something they have or just coincidence?

I live in a WASP city so I'm not joking

Meaning of Nappy.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Fausto
I had one the other day selling mags for a "school trip" or something. I told him "NO." right away, but he just wouldn't shut up. I finally picked up my cell from the table by the front door and started dialing. I informed him that the Clarkston Police station is less than a mile away (true) and then suggested he get the f*ck off my front porch if he didn't want to have a chat with the cops.

Maybe he was just admiring your thong.

Nope. He'd have been rendered speechless if that were the case.

Yeah, there isn't a word to describe something so small and pathetic, is there?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: axelfox
I was sitting around with two other co-workers trying figure out how to scam my company out of money we thought they owed us. We were figuring out how to launder the money so we wouldn't get caught until this guy posing as a former crack head tries to sell us magazines. Since he used to be a crack head we thought he knew some drug dealers so that we could launder some money.

Turns out he wasn't a former crack head but really an out of work programmer with a competitors of ours. Since he knew some of the same people we knew, I had to buy a bunch of magazines so that he wouldn't rat us out.

Damn!



Isn't it much funnier in the 1st person?

Yeah, but did you have enough money to do two chicks at the same time?

 

[niwi7]

all i can say is---


Hi my name is steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack but now im not and trying to stay clean. That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.

5 min later

What am i going to do with 49 subscriptions to vibe????

 

[RaiseUp]

exclusive apartment complex? HAHA

 

[Ikonomi]

I notice you live up in Kingwood. Do it the Texas way and point your shotgun at them. It works every time.

No muss, no fuss, no bother!

 

[KEV1N]

Not the best idea to be an ass to someone when they know exactly where you live .

 

[imported_Strang]

Originally posted by: KEV1N
Not the best idea to be an ass to someone when they know exactly where you live .

Yep, that's why I swallowed my pride and stopped my gf from going out and lecturing the girl -- no need for grafitti or slashed tires, heh.

(Not to mention that my last shred of male self esteem would be crushed by being defended by my gf against a big bad magazine salesperson -- oh, no, not a Time subscription!)

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: yllus
That sucks. You really should have said something like "good luck guys, but personally I'm not interested." You'd have saved yourself a vandalized door. It's not really the best idea to piss off strangers when they know where you live.

Exactly. I always say, "not interested but good luck to ya." and close the door.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: KEV1N
Not the best idea to be an ass to someone when they know exactly where you live .

That's why I wait for them to leave, go jack a car and hit them with the door as I drive by.

Haven't seen the same kid twice.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

punk kids.. gotta hate them!

I made a practice not to answer the door unless I know who it is (building manager, etc) or i'm expecting someone. Besides that.. its ALWAYS locked.

 

[BatmanNate]

I have a no soliciting sign that I point to when this happens. If they persist, I kindly tell them to wait one moment, then after pumping the slide on my shotgun loudly enough for them to hear and waiting a minute, they are gone.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Quixfire
Ask him if he knows how to launder money acquired illegally, like form a virus rounding off the nearest hundredth of a penny.

You read my mind.

 

[Ulfwald]

I usually answer the door with a big black lab barking in the background. Works on Jehovah's Witnesses as well.