Our neighborhood gets hit pretty hard by door-to-door salesmen, especially in the summertime. I've developed a soft spot for these hard workers, having a little brother who's done summer sales and knowing how tough this line of work can be. However, being at home alone with the girls most of the time, I'm not exactly comfortable opening my door to complete strangers. In order to save myself from having to hide in the bedroom or simply pretend I don't speak English every time one of these salesmen comes to my door, I recently created my own "No Soliciting" sign and stuck it by the doorbell. Imagine my surprise when my doorbell rang the other day, and I opened it to be greeted by a trio of neighborhood girls.
"Want to buy some lemonade?" They asked eagerly.
"Sorry ladies," I answered. I shrugged my shoulders helplessly and jerked my thumb towards my "No Soliciting" sign. One of them let out an exasperated huff, and another just frowned at me.
"But you KNOW us!"
"Oh, all right," I sighed, turning to go into the kitchen to fetch a quarter. When I returned and presented my payment, I was responded to by a look of complete insult.
"THIS lemonade costs 50 CENTS," they informed me. I sized up the serving of liquid and ice inside the cup they were selling me.
"Fifty cents!?" I made another trip to scrounge up a second quarter. (You know you're in a sorry financial state when you have to buy your neighborhood lemonade on TWO payments.)
"You can keep the cup," one of them offered generously.
After wrapping up our business dealing, I took a sip of what I suspected to be a helping of tap water flavored with a couple squirts of lemon juice. "How do you sleep at night!?" I cried out as they skipped down the sidewalk, fifty cents richer, and no doubt pleased with the outcome of their sales pitch. I think a need a bigger sign.
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Hi Becky! It's Andrea (from good old USU days:) I'm glad I found your blog. Your girls are DARLING. And they look a whole lot like their mom. Especially your oldest is like your little twin. I'm kind of new to the blogging world, but my blog is private so end me your email address. a.swenson98@yahoo.com Good to find you! You're still cracking me up:)
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you could buy some product from your next-door neighbor. He would probably give you a discount.
ReplyDeleteThis is really funny because I have a friend who really had a no soliciting sign made for her front door. It looks like one you'd see on the door of a business. One nice thing about living on post is that there is no soliciting. We've been free of the door-to-door folks for over a year now. Can't say I've missed them, but I wouldn't mind visiting with some JW's once in a while.
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