Comments on: I don’t know why I bother answering my door anymore http://www.sayitwithpie.com/2009/10/i-dont-know-why-i-bother-answering-my-door-anymore/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:38:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.sayitwithpie.com/2009/10/i-dont-know-why-i-bother-answering-my-door-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1932 Matt Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:57:50 +0000 http://www.sayitwithpie.com/?p=839#comment-1932 Yay for Google. I think it's probably taken a huge chunk out of the profits for businesses like these. By the way, did you ever hear my answer to what I'll do with my degree? Listen to "Your Degree Isn't As Useless As You Think": http://www.cbc.ca/go/audio.html#fullshows Yay for Google. I think it’s probably taken a huge chunk out of the profits for businesses like these.

By the way, did you ever hear my answer to what I’ll do with my degree? Listen to “Your Degree Isn’t As Useless As You Think”: http://www.cbc.ca/go/audio.html#fullshows

]]> By: Liam http://www.sayitwithpie.com/2009/10/i-dont-know-why-i-bother-answering-my-door-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 Liam Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:29:49 +0000 http://www.sayitwithpie.com/?p=839#comment-1931 Yeah, I've really grown to hate answering the door as well. Partially, even if there's a charity or something that I feel I would at some point contribute to, I tend to prefer going about it in my own way, and the cold-calling sours me on the whole thing. My personal 'fave' are realtors who are fishing for business, and if I haven't shut the door in their face right away, I enjoy stringing them along for as long as possible before dropping my triple bomb on them: we don't own, we're renting from a co-op (not even paying to reinforce market rates!), and we're both unemployed. The game I enjoy playing is seeing just how fast they try to get away after hearing those doozies, even if I'm still trying to engage them in questions. Runner up for worst has gotta be sharkish salespeople who, after getting a pretty brusque brush-off from one tenant of the house (me), then immediately still ring the other doorbell of the house, assuming our downstairs neighbour, who's been listening the whole time and wants possibly less to do with them, will be more accommodating. Yeah, I’ve really grown to hate answering the door as well. Partially, even if there’s a charity or something that I feel I would at some point contribute to, I tend to prefer going about it in my own way, and the cold-calling sours me on the whole thing.

My personal ‘fave’ are realtors who are fishing for business, and if I haven’t shut the door in their face right away, I enjoy stringing them along for as long as possible before dropping my triple bomb on them: we don’t own, we’re renting from a co-op (not even paying to reinforce market rates!), and we’re both unemployed. The game I enjoy playing is seeing just how fast they try to get away after hearing those doozies, even if I’m still trying to engage them in questions.

Runner up for worst has gotta be sharkish salespeople who, after getting a pretty brusque brush-off from one tenant of the house (me), then immediately still ring the other doorbell of the house, assuming our downstairs neighbour, who’s been listening the whole time and wants possibly less to do with them, will be more accommodating.

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