Thank you! Indeed, today marks the start of my 10th year on Mudspike.
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Wow. I thought door to door sales died out sometime during the 90’s? That’s the last time I had that experience. Still, I’d take a door to door salesman anytime over a Jevoha’s Witness or a Mormon peddling their faith to me.
True that, the salesmen don’t arrive at stupid o’clock.
I wouldn’t even have a problem with those brands of bible thumpers, as a non-believer, if they just came at a decent hour.
“Thank you, but no thanks, have a good day!” Starts around 9 AM for me. After 10PM and until 8:59AM? It’s “Oh the 6’4 Puerto Rican man is scowling at me” time.
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Love that movie!
Also, who buys anything from a D2D salesmen? Or a telemarketer, for that matter?
I never have.
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Kirby here in US sells very expensive vacuum cleaners/shampoo’ers door to door, and they offer to clean a room for free to demonstrate. The largest room in our home is the combo formal sitting/dining area (who the heck puts carpet in a room that’s supposed to have food served in it?) that we use as oversized living room. I guess I finally ended up on a list, but for about 2 years I get the carpet cleaned for free downstairs every 6 months.
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Not sure about the quality of their vacuums now but we have three of them. Suckers are heavy so we have one for upstairs and one for downstairs. One went with my sister when she moved out.
We still have the oldest one that my Mom bought in 1972. It has had some minor maintenance over the last 50+ years but it still runs great.
Wheels
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I first read that as “D&D salesmen” and was trying (and failing to picture that).
Would probably be hilarious, with lots of dead salesmen!
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“The lighter side of a Dark Souls merchant”.
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I speak German to a fairly high standard now but when I started learning it I would sometimes speak it to door knockers even though I was bad at it to put them off on the understanding that most Brits would never dream of learning a foreign language.
You guessed it, made a right idiot of myself one day when one of them turned out to be fluent in it… Still didn’t buy what he was selling though:)
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You should have used Spanish instead of German! Great story by the way.
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