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We had some interesting people show up at our door this past week. The other night my wife and I were sitting at the computer and a stray toddler wandered onto our front porch. We saw him through the front window and looked at each other to see if we had both seen the same thing. We both agreed that there was a small child on the porch. I went to the door and the child was alone with no adults in sight. He must have been about 3 years old, tops. I said said hi to him and he said "Tree!" and "Daddy!". I asked him where "daddy" was. I had some idea where this child may have come from so I took his hand and walked three houses down and sure enough they identified the little boy. They were unaware he had wandered off and were grateful that we brought him back. We live in a fairly quiet neighborhood but its adjacent to a very busy FM road. I'm glad this turned out the way it did. If he would have wandered three houses down in the other direction, towards the busy road, it could have been bad.

Then yesterday we had two school aged children come to the door selling things for a school fundraiser. Again, they were unaccompanied by any adults. Im no expert but don't schools discourage door-to-door fundraiser activities?

I put a "No Soliciting" sign on my screen door a while back and come to think of it the solicitors have stopped.....must be working...

My neighborhood is plagued with solicitors. I live in the county and there are no permits required for peddlers. One guy came to my house a few years ago peddling an "amazing" new cleaning solution that smelled strangely like orange juice. Before I could stop him her drew on one of my shutters with a sharpie marker the proceeded to try and clean it off with his product. It didnt work so well on the marker and he ended up taking the paint off of my shutter. Naturally I was highly irritated and proceeded to run him off down the street, all the while making a complete fool out of myself. I called the SO to come out and make a report for damage to my property. I knew the deputy that came out and he calmly explained that there wasnt a whole lot that could be done other that filing the report. Long story short, I put up multiple "No soliciting" and really havent had any problems since. I dont open the door for them anymore.