Off topic, but GREAT movie.lonewolf wrote: Sometimes I feel like the old guys from Secondhand Lions, where they sit on the porch all day just waiting for the salesmen to show up........
On topic, I have a No Soliciting/No Handbills sign at my front door. I am amazed at the sales people who still ignore it. Had a guy not long ago from a roofing company in the neighborhood that was doing a roof on another house and thought he would try to find more business by offering 'FREE roof inspections.'
When the doorbell rang and I answered it, he told me what he was doing and I pointed to the sign and said, 'Did you not see this?' He says, 'Oh, I'm not selling anything, just offering to inspect your roof.' I stated, 'Well, if you find damage, then what are going to do?' He tried to weasel out of it. I then asked about his permit and he had the same song about 'We need a permit to inspect roofs?' I told him to hit the road and make it quick. He got huffy about it, and tried to argue with me, so I told him he had 10 seconds to be down on the main sidewalk and leaving my property. As he headed out, I followed him to get the newspaper. I had forgotten that I had my Kahr PM9 in a slide holster at 5 o'clock and no cover shirt. I bent over to get the paper and looked up as he had turned back toward me from the sidewalk. He got a really funny look on his face and turned and made a hasty bee-line down the street.
However, even though I still periodically get a handbill or two, or a salesman once in awhile, the signs have helped cut down on the volume.