I did door to door newspaper subscriptions. That lasted exactly one day.

 

For a summer I had a job making unsolicited phone calls, but not really telemarketing, more doing research for the actual telemarketers. That was actually not too awful. And I learned every area code in the country. Although that was 30 years ago, and there were a lot fewer then.

One summer in college. Screw that whole "three no's" concept. Worst job ever - especially when their database was way out of date and I ended up asking for someone who just happened to be DEAD!

That said, I have no problem with politely saying "No" three times and then hanging up/closing the door.

Yeah 100% cold shoulder giving...

 

I actually have a terrible story related to this from my recent trip.  We were in Paris visiting La Basilique du Sacré Cœur de Montmartre which is notorious for pick pockets, beggars, and men who scam you by tying a friendship bracelet around your wrist while having a conversation with you and then demanding 5 euros for it...

 

So needless to say I was on high alert, while wearing a very girly pink dress and looking like a good victim to these scammers.  One of these friendship bracelet guys says to me "hello, miss, where are you from?" and I said "leave me alone, I'm not interested" .. he held up a friendship bracelet and said (in a thick accent) "for you" to which I respond "fuck you!"... he says "fuck you, and fuck your father"

 

The important part of this story is I didn't hear "for you" his accent was so thick that I heard "fuck you" and responded in kind.  It was only after this all went down that DH informed me I'd been very aggressive with that man, and I looked at him puzzled and said, "what did you expect me to say when he said 'fuck you'?" ... He let me know that the poor friendship bracelet scammer had only said "for you"...

 

oops?  Living in NYC for the past 8 years has certainly hardened me.

You must have felt terrible after...lol... But what a funny story now...  Don't feel too bad though, those people are pushy and they must be accustomed to being pushed back. Lady, you know how to defend yourself! haha!

It seems the sales people always come to the door when I am working out at home. I tend to wear a a tank & short shorts that I would never wear in public. I open the door so they know someone is home, but then say not interested and close it.

We also get a lot of the home improvement companies that come around and claim to be working on "insert name here's" house. 99% of the time, I don't know the name, nor have I seen workers at the houses immediately surrounding mine.

I'm a horrible person, I close the door on all the poor students coming around to not ask for money to save the Chesapeake Bay. 

Unwelcome visitors, how do you deal?

I duck low and stay real, real quiet.

There's a 3-4 inch difference between my porch and my door step. When DW makes me answer, I stand right on the door frame, all 6'6" of me, real close to them, and say I'm not interested. When they insist, I answer that I don't care what they have to say or sell, I will never encourage solliciting. Same approach on the phone, except for the 6'6" part

If you don't have a warrant and you're not my parents or his parents (with an announced visit), you are not coming through my door.

They're not getting in my piece even with a warrant.

#sayhellotomylittlefriend