Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005

posted April 16, 2005 03:19 AM         

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Geez, I hope I spelled canvassers properly. Yes, I am aware stooopid has a U.. but this was apropo.

So, I am sick. My son is sick, my daughter is sick.
Weeeee! Fun times.
He went to school today, just cuz he wanted to, and it was a nice day.. the rule is .. if you stay home from school, you can't go out and play with friends after school... So he went. *bugger*
so this evening, after school, the door bell rang incessantly, with his friends.
So I am sitting with my hubs on the couch after dinner, about seven o'clock.. The door sounds, my ten year old boy answers it. He says.. "Oh, it's for you."
I drag my sick ass off the couch, knowing it must be a canvasser....
So it's a security company.
This woman, asking why I don't have a sign, advertising their security company, blah blah blah.. the spiel...
I told her *nicely, I might add* that I actually met with the same company a few months ago, and my husband and I decided it was unneccesary.
She says snottily..
"Well, don't you want to protect your family?"
I say.. "Well, of course I want to protect my family, but I'll do it a different way.." * I joked, mocking my fist in the palm of my other hand...*
I was very nice, yet firm, you see.
She looks at me, in a very snotty way and says-
"Well, you shouldn't let your son answer the door then...." And sort of gives me the attitude look, and makes this little sound in her throat.
I am sure she sensed the change in the atmosphere right after she said that.......
I am sure I gave her the death stare.
I said
"Oh.. is that right?"
"Because I let my ten year old boy answer his own door when it is light outside, thinking it is his friends, and instead it is some B!tch trying the hard tactics to sell me an unneccesary service, you are implying I am doing wrong?"
I lost it on her.
I didn't quite yell, as my voice is gone... but she got the hint.
I proceeded to tell her to get the *%#@ off my porch blah blah blah...
I couldn't believe someone would have the gall to say something like that.. Considering it was the stupidest, most judgemental thing someone wanting to sell something to me could have said.... especially with the week I have had with my daughter.Plus, I am PMS-ing.
She needs to go back to customer service 101.
Anyway, I had to share.
So next time you think I am sweet, remember, when the right motivation comes along, I am anything but.
So just bump this up and point and laugh and say sweet?
You should hear her go off on canvassers!!!

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posted April 16, 2005 07:28 AM         

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Feel better, sweet pixie! f-u canvassers! I hate sales calls 2! My daughter answers,thinking the phone is for her, then hand it over to me. I just hang up on them most of the time. f-u sales calls!

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posted April 16, 2005 07:53 AM         

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“I am sure I gave her the death stare.”

Go pixie Some people have a lot of nerve, and she said that on your property. It’s not like you were in some office, which would be rude as well, but it was in your home…sort of. And she was trying to sell you something…urrrrr…can you say stupid a$$ sales woman Now I don’t know much about this, but I’m pretty sure that if you’re trying to sell something…you don’t insult the customer.

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posted April 16, 2005 07:56 AM         

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exactly Bluemoon
F U sales calls…this is why I don’t answer the phone in my house anymore

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posted April 16, 2005 11:49 AM         

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Oh please, you're still sweet. Awww you prolly looked so adorable trying to be tough

No, seriously, the b!tch got what she deserved! How dare she tell you that?
My God, noone would even THINK of doing that here!

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posted April 16, 2005 12:13 PM         

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I feel you Pix! We always get calls from police and fire organizations. They even have tha guts to say stuff like "If you had a fire in your home, wouldn't you want the fire co. to have the proper equipment to save your life?" Grrrrrr! OK, so I don't have a red truck. But if there were a fire, we have many exits and live on the second floor. We could jump and get out before the fire co. even got here! (I don't mind donating, but once you do, they are relentless!)

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posted April 16, 2005 02:17 PM         

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I just keep picturing how sexy she must've been doing that . . .

Maybe if you would've let her lick one of your thighs she would've given you a discount.

Damn, your thighs are nice.

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posted April 16, 2005 03:30 PM         

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Do you guys remember the post a while back where someone posted how to deal with solicitors? One of the ways was to just put down the phone and walk away. I know you can't do that when they come to your door, but you could pretend to speak another language!

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posted April 16, 2005 07:14 PM         

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*chimes in* .....yeah, stoooopid canvassers!

btw, we call 'em solicitors.

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From: Ontario Canada
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posted April 16, 2005 11:27 PM         

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solicitors.
Yes, we call them that too, out here in the hicks, yee haw.
or canvassers.. as in door to door salespeople.

Well, right, I kicked her off the igloo steps, anyway.. then told her to get her dog sled and um.. what are they called? Ice shoe-things.. and take her boot wearing self back to Moosejaw, eh?
Then I went back to my Molson Canadian, and said please and thank you a-boot the interruption to our chesterfeild sitting solace. Then I watched the CBC.

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posted April 17, 2005 03:02 AM         

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Moosejaw, eh? huh? you lost me on that one, lol (got the eh part though, lol

I'm gonna change my "No Solicitors" sign out on the front porch to "No Canvassers", and when asked, "What the heck?" I'll tell 'em thats what Pix and my gramps used to call solicitors up there in Ontario,

My "No Solicitors" sign doesn't work very well anyways. In fact I had a guy this very afternoon come to the door trying to sell magazines, he assured me he wasn't a thug, hahahahaha. I looked at him suspiciously because he really could of been a canvasser. lol Come to think of it, once along time ago my front door was kicked in by someone who had a clipboard in hand pretending to be a solicitor, he and his bud were really canvassers.

Howz aboot dat for a story.......... true

When I hear "canvassers" I think of people "canvassing the joint" you know, like the people who canvass the neighborhood figuring out whom to rob next.

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From: Ontario Canada
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posted April 17, 2005 02:02 PM         

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Whe I think of solicitors, I think of Lawyers.
Actually, maybe I am the only one who calls them 'canvassers'
I used to canvass for Greenpeace. door to door info and memberships, back when I was sixteen, maybe thats why I call it that, cuz that's what I was called.

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posted April 17, 2005 06:20 PM         

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's ok. Van Gogh was one too.

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posted April 17, 2005 10:47 PM         

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Pix, come play in Ohio! It's safe-- no one ever comes to my door. I have a sign in the window that says: "Premises guarded by PixelPixie." Stops 'em dead in their tracks!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

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