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stevie_d_64 wrote:

Skiprr wrote:Haven't yet, and hope I don't. But I was doing some dry-fire and magazine reload practice one evening last year, and got a phone call from an old friend. I sat down and relaxed. About 15 minutes into the call, the doorbell rings. I'm on the cordless so I think nothing of it, just get up and go to the door.

Our subdivision is posted against door-to-door solicitors, but it does sometimes happen, as it did this time. It was a young guy at the door; and it wasn't until I saw his eyes drop from my face that I realize I'm wearing a T-shirt tucked into jeans, a gun belt, a double-magazine holder with two mags on my left side, and a full-sized, cocked-& locked 1911 in a Kydex OWB holster on my right.

Nothing illegal about it--I was standing in my own house--but I would never intend to shock a poor kid just trying to sell pest services or something.

It was a very brief sales pitch, though. He didn't want to stick around.

You know...I'm going to have to remember this next time I get a knock at the front door...

See, I have this sign, very prominently displayed that says "NO SOLICITORS"...

Its in white letters 1" high on a red background...And displayed at the nominal eye level of the average American...

But still I get these unsolicited sales calls on my front door...hmmmm...

I'ver tried ignoring them, but since our vehicles are sometimes both out in the driveway, they don't leave in a timely manner...I don't like sitting there on my couch ignoring someone at my front door relaxing, knowing they are there...Just kinda irritates me I guess...

I might go healing next time when I open the door for one of these "calls"

But that would make me a very hated person I suppose...