Wimpish
Wow, what a rotten weekend.
It started out with a young dood knocking on my door not long after I got home friday. Went thru some shpiel, turned out he was selling magazines and asked if he could come inside and “use a counter” to write down my choices. Very pushy. I bluntly ended the conversation and he reacted very oddly. Told Carissa about it later and she reminded me that a couple of years ago in the Eagle/Meridian area there were some kids running a scam using magazine sales as a front to get inside houses to scope them out for robbery later. Also, during that time the police made it clear to the public that it is illegal to sell magazines door-to-door without a license in Idaho. The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was very likely that was exactly what was going on. So that made me nervous all weekend….
Also, my nergon.com registration had expired while we were away last weekend and I hadn’t jumped on renewing it fast enough. They turned me off late friday night, so I immediately went and paid it, but not before they changed nergon.com to a Network Solutions “Under Construction” page. I fought all weekend with their support trying to get it back to normal. Their whole support experience is AWFUL. I really cannot stress enough how bad it felt being a customer of theirs this weekend….
Then I had to do some OT Saturday for about 5 hours, and to top it off, last night when a bunch of us guildies on WoW tried to finish a quest, we got our butts handed to us. Over and over and over again. So, yeah. Ick.
But one awesome thing did happen. Yesterday during church was my daughter’s first time taking communion. That was very, very cool. She’s growing up so fast and becoming quite the little lady. I’m very very proud of her!
July 30th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I had a girl come to my door right before I left for Montana. I didn’t really think much of it, cause we had a kid sell something like that while we lived in Oregon. She seemed to be legit, but really, there isn’t a whole lot in our house worth much to steal. All of our computers were in a room she didn’t even go in. I think I could be too trusting of people. lol
July 30th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Well I suppose it coud be legit. This kid just was not good at being a salesman and after I talked to Carissa, it did seem like he wanted to get inside a little too much. I also am too trusting and the other thing that frustrates me about myself is that I don’t think very quickly on my feet. I could have taken a picture of him with my phone, I could have asked him why if he was selling magazines did he not have a pen of his own and clipboard to write on… Or I guess I could just have a no solicitation sign on my door.
July 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am
or you could get a Munchkin with a bat.
keep him in your closet and when they come to bother you in your house, you could let the Munchkin out and he could beat the snot out of them unitl they leave.
Don’t confuse with Oompa Loompas with nunchucks
or
Pygmies with Pepperspray
July 30th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
…or a Trunk Monkey.
July 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Oh Randall you stole my thunder I was gonna mention the truck monkey! The munkin is a good idea if you can find one. Speaking of Munkins have you ever played the game “Munkins”? If you are any kinda gamer (D&D and the like) it is totally hillarious and I recomment it completely. You get such items as the “Boots of Butt-kicking” and the “Spiked Codpiece” There are about 10 expansions that add various races, and classes. YOu will all die laughing I guarantee.
July 31st, 2007 at 9:46 am
Dude, that same guy came to my door last week. European exchange student or something like that? And yeah, he had a clicker.
I was on the phone at the time and he was depressed that I told him to come back later. Really odd.