If you are ringing my doorbell, you are standing on a piece of property I am paying money for. I pay the taxes on that property as my fair share, I pay the mortgage (meaning I OWN at least a few centimeters of it) and I pay the insurance on it, in case you stub your toe while you are on my property uninvited and decide to sue me.

We are not talking about a piece of property you were invited to come onto. There is no sign out that says “I would appreciate it if all solicitors, be it god or goods, would stop by…”. If I wanted that, I would put that sign out.

So if a solicitor is going to come UNIVITED onto my PRIVATE PROPERTY, I do not ‘owe’ them anything… ‘just doing their job’ is as much an entitlement attitude as “… I am going to have another kid I can not afford, so give me money and food.”

If he is an asshole enough to decide to make a living trespassing on peoples property, interrupting peoples dinners and then ignoring them when they say ‘no thank you’, he gets NOTHING from me… and certainly does not ‘deserve’ it because ‘he is just doing his job’.

Unless of course, he wants to pay me a percentage of the sale he just made… he was, after all, using MY property to solicit his sale. That makes us partners… I think I at LEAST deserve half, since I am paying for the land and all the utilities of his ‘office’ and ’showroom’.

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There’s slightly annoyed and there’s being pissed off. Being woken for a sales pitch usually falls in the latter. And they’re usually targeting those who are home-bound or those who are looking for company. If you don’t fall into either of those categories, you probably could buy whatever they’re selling elsewhere without the hassle of being pitched to.

Its true that they’re trying to make a living, but they’re talking to someone who’s not interested from the beginning, giving the schpiel would be just a waste of time and energy on a no sale anyways, better to hit the next place to get a better potential buyer.

Also, being an ass and pissing off the potential customer makes it a lot harder to sell the product. They’ve been told about the various techniques on reading people and watching for signs/tells, but if they don’t do it properly, it just bites them in the ass. (And the public being more educated/aware of sales tactics helps too.)

I will NOT be impressed by his spunky can-do attitude.

I WILL be annoyed that I had to stop what I was doing.

And most of all, I will NOT cut him any slack.

Stupid Fucker.