Rant - Door-to-door Salesmen

I was really hoping to put off a rant until later in the month, but I guess day 5 is pretty good for me!

Last night, I had just sat down at the table with the girls for dinner when the doorbell rang.  Since it was so nice out, I had the windows and doors open, so I could clearly see the man standing on the other side of the screen door (and he could see me and the girls).  I went to the door and he started in on his whole sales pitch for new doors and windows.  [In all honesty, it's great that people are still willing to come to homes like this and promote their services.  Some of these companies I'd never even check out on my own, so they're definitely getting their name out.  They tend to offer good deals and are smaller local companies, which I like, and the people that come by are easy on the eyes too!]  I thanked him after about 30 seconds and said something like "thank you for coming by, is there any information you can leave with me?  I'm in the middle of feeding my daughters dinner."  He totally ignored me and continued with the kinds of discounts his company is currently offering.  Again, "thanks, but I really need to get back to my daughters."  At this point, I can hear E starting to whine because I'm not sitting beside her.  Once again, he completely ignored me and continued with all the awards and recognition the company has in the city and surrounding area.  Finally, I said "look, I need to get back to my daughters.  If you don't have anything you can leave with me, I'm just going to close the door and you can go on to visit one of our neighbors."  I think the guy finally understood (or so I thought), until he pulled out his clipboard with a questionnaire on it and said "let me get your information so we can set up an appointment to discuss this further."

Normally, I'm a fairly patient person.  Okay, I lied - I don't have any patience.  My daughters are lucky to make it through each day without me screaming all the time and ripping things to shreds (I jest, it's not that bad...yet).  I wish I could say that I told the guy off, or that I said something snappy, but I didn't.  I just went from zero to pissed in about 0.1 seconds and said "give me the flyer and I'LL call YOU.  have a nice evening."  Close the screen door (but not the front door so he can still see me, ha!), step over the baby gate, and back to the table with the girls.  L asks me "who that, Mommy?"  My answer was "that man was telling Mommy about windows."  I really wanted to say "that man was a jerk and Mama wanted to kick his ass."  However, I thought it best to hold my tongue.

Door-to-door salesmen, and people that call to sell things as well, just don't get it sometimes.  While everyone is trying to be polite and telling them "go the f* away," they just ignore everything we say until they feel like they've backed us into the appropriate corner.  I guess that's how they make their sales, but is common decency these days?  When I'm trying to feed my two small children and I'm asking you to basically go away, what don't you get?!???  Next time, I think I'll just yell "not interested!" and let them go from there.  Especially the religious people.  I may have to post about my argument over Jesus with a Jehovah's Witness sometime...