Truth is I love to talk to people, I don’t mind if they are door t door Salesman, or Jehova’s Witnesses, if someone i willing to come up and knock on my door, I better get some interesting conversation out of it. One of my favorites was when a string of small burglaries occured in our neighborhood, then conveniently the next day (before the police or media even reported anything) there were door to door Alarm Salesman canvassing the neighborhood. Now I have done door to door sales in my life, and actually I quite enjoyed it. That being said I will listen to anyone for a few minutes out of courtesy. So I listened to him tell me about the recent burglaries and how I would have been protected if I had their system. I asked if he was sure his system was better than mine was. He started naming all the other alarm companies and how his product was superior, I just told my son to let the dogs out and as 8 Dobermans came running toward the front door he turned and ran jumping my front fence and I am quite sure he wet himself on the way. I couldn’t stop laughing for 10 minutes. I still laugh when I tell the story. It wasn’t two days later another guy pulled up and knocked and as I opened the door the first words out of his mouth were that he was the supervisor and he wasn’t afraid of dogs. I smiled and winked at my son who let the dogs go, and he nearly tripped on himself getting off the front porch and over the front fence. Again solid laughter and a story to remember. I have many good memories of people at the door. Nevertheless I see a lot of no solicitor signs all around the neighborhood, and I came up with one of my own that I printed and laminated. The thing is I think the sign is fun, but I worry that I won’t have any more good stories to tell if I really hang it up, but I am sure plenty of people passing by are going to have great laughs.
Behold the sign:
