Honey !!

[albaqwerty]

Young man at the door earlier, asking if we had received a leaflet regarding a certain media outlet.

He kept calling me Honey. "Hi honey, did you get one of these leaflets?"
Me: No.
Him: well honey
And so on and so forth

At that point my ears closed. Who and/or what is teaching sales peeps these days??

[albaqwerty]

hehe Susan, my pooch sat on the stairs and gave the numpty an eyeful.

He didn't know she would show him where the cake-tin is tho.

I love cats but they only do the hissy-fit when it suits them :)

[what..the?]

I have had another caller he's visited twice since we moved into this rental last october he was selling books he have written and had printed, books based on the local area with photos. Three books quite expensive, but as I say we don't by things at the door. The first time we answered via the intercom and he wouldn't say what it was about just, "hey it's your friend" as we just moved there and kind of knew somepeople we thought better go and see who it is, OH goes and the guy starts to force sell these books, we say no sorry, he won't take no for an answer and then puts his foot in the door, after an age we get rid of him.

Some two months later the intercom buzzes again and it's pushed in constantly for a few minutes then quick presses then held in for a couple for minutes deafening to all people and animals in the house, the buzzer is really loud even outside so he knew what he was doing. Then the person started banging on the door loudly like he was kicking it in. Due to the extremely rudeness we answered by intercom just to stop them buzzing and punching the door, it was him again saying 'it's you mate come to the door' so we said what do you want, is just kept saying ''it's your mate" (but we don't know him from adam)

quite frankly the whole thing on both ocasions was quite scary. I asked a neighbour and it turns out the person is local and has added 'issues' with dementia and his wife tries to keep him at home. I know this must be difficult but there is no excuse for agressively 'hitting' the streets forcing his books on people. I am dreading him coming back, because he scares me to death, I don't feel safe around him, but I can't be judgement of his condition. My father in law has dementia and I have looked into the condition alot, I don't know if he uses his disability to sell to people, alot of people even the poorest seem to have his books for no reason what so ever?

[wolf63]

what...the - it is terrible when you can't even feel safe in your own home.

I had big dogs for the first 12 or so years after I left home - they are really good at scaring people off. My two were both males and were very protective. When the first died I got the second one from a rescue place.

I don't answer my buzzer or door bell at night unless I am expecting someone. Not because I am scared - but because I am unsociable. Perth is a pretty safe place to live in. ;-)

[albaqwerty]

OMG ask-your

what an awful experience. My FIL lives in a place where he buzzes people in, but he can see who they are from the front door.

[ClareA]

wolf63, I identify with what you said! I socialise (every day) with people as and when I wish to, but if I'm home, an unexpected caller is hardly going to be someone I'll want to welcome right then. Probably someone I don't know, wasting my time, such as a religious proselytiser.