I’m really beginning to wonder if breathtaking stupidity and complete inability to read the room are the skills that Southern Premier Roofing advertises for when they’re hiring on their door-to-door sales goons.
From carpet bombing my post box to literally being ignored as I was talking to Nicholas in my own driveway, these bozos just seem utterly incapable of taking the hint that I have zero interest in participating in their roofing scam!
The choice irony is that today’s nitwit disturbed me as I was watching a YouTube video featuring TV licencing goons in the UK (basically door-to-door sales people who want to flog a £169 fee on the residents of the property if they view live TV as it’s broadcast or watch BBC content on iPlayer) getting hand and occasionally door in face by an ever increasing community of people who just can’t be bothered with them! 🙂
The first time this yo-yo knocked and then hit the doorbell (geez…pick one or the other!) I took a quick peek, recognised his outfit and his intense interest in his cell phone as opposed to seeing if anyone was answering the door and figured he could just take the hint and bugger off.
Except that he did the knock *AND* ring thing a second time!
This time I came right up to the narrow window next to the front door and watched him again show so much interest in his phone that he had no idea I was there watching him. For a rather disturbingly long time, in fact.
He finally looks up and actually seems to see me through the window and then for some somewhat inexplicable reason doesn’t even bother to try to engage but rather heads back up the driveway.
He ended up meeting up with a gaggle of three blue-shirted colleagues who I guess are the actual door knocking goons and some guy wearing a white shirt who I presumed was the boss of this lot on the other side of the street just past the entry to the cul-de-sac.
At some point I’m probably going to get to the point where I think they just can’t get any dumber but I don’t think we’re quite there yet… 😉