Solar seller rant

[gmerkt]

One of the latest grifts has to do with rain gutters. Gutter guards, leaf guards, screens, covers, whatever you want to call them. Of various designs. With all the usual high volume incentives concerning financing.

Out where I live, there is no gutter screen that will keep out the dirt and fine cedar debris. Which in time turns into a thick slurry/scum UNDERNEATH the gutter guard. If the screen is fine, in a heavy rain the run-off can easily overwhelm the cover and run over the edge of the gutter. Which defeats the original purpose of the gutter.

They are probably fine for keeping big leaf maple leaves out of the gutters.

 

[MannyGlocks]

Why are these cretins tolerated...?

If you can't see a stranger knocking on your door from a nearby window, put a 'peep-hole' in your front door.

Let em knock, you're not obligated to answer or open your door.

I used to live in a heavily populated sub-division and I too got a lot of door to door sales bother-ers.

The peephole was a great anti-aggravation device...

I don't need one now as I live in the country with a 36' gate and fence and a 150' curving driveway...

Since moving here over 17' years ago, I've not had even one sales annoy-er 'ever' knock on my door...ever!

 

[DB is Here]

Just use sign language and point to your ears... They'll leave.

Or point to your ears and hand them a notepad...it works too.

 

[hongkong2]

Open the door naked, covered in blood, holding a dead chicken and a copy of the Necronomicon and yell, "DO YOU HAVE ANY PAPRIKA?!?!"

They don't come back.

This works quite well for Jehovah's witness.

 

[Provincial]

I was being checked out to fly skydivers in a Beech 18 twin engine airplane made during WWII and having two 450 HP Pratt & Whitney 9-cylinder radial engines. Part of the checkout was practicing flying with one engine simulating a failure, which can be somewhat challenging. Just after liftoff on a takeoff run, my instructor pulled back the left engine to idle. This is absolutely the worst combination of factors, and to make it worse, it was a hot summer day. The airplane didn't want to climb, and the ground was rising ahead of us. There was a house dead ahead, and if I turned to the lower ground on the left, the airplane would want to just continue the turn and not straighten out again. I was barely clearing the terrain, and when we went over the house, we barely cleared the chimney. My instructor looked down as we passed over, and saw someone run off the porch and dive into some bushes. There was something white floating in the air, obstructing his view. He said "we have to go back and land. I need to call them."

When he called, the phone rang for the longest time, but finally a man answered and Gary began to apologize, saying that "I was checking out a new pilot and we just couldn't get the airplane to climb. I'm sorry to have disturbed you."

The man replied, "I'm just the gardener. You didn't disturb me, in fact it was fun seeing you up so close. But that Jehovah's Witness lady, she saw God!"

 

[boattail]

Just use sign language and point to your ears... They'll leave.

Or point to your ears and hand them a notepad...it works too.

I did that once while mowing my lawn. A guy and a kid came up my walkway with leaflets and I mimicked sign language and they scurried off. I might have to bring that one back out some day and see it it works on these idiots. I was talking to my neighbor today and he ran off the same two that I did.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Never had a problem with salesman coming to my place that I have lived for 30 years, Jehovah's Witness and Mormons are my nemesis, they are ruthless…

 

[1911Fanatic]

This works quite well for Jehovah's witness.

I had a couple of JW's come to my door. Two 20 something ladies and an older gentleman. The one chick was hot. Great body and pretty face. And I'm thinking o myself, why are the "pretty ones" such dummies? I told them
"No thanks, and I'll be answering the door naked next time." That's been 10 years ago. I guess that worked they haven't come back to my door since.