Door to door meat salesman

[KC0VWU]

Every so often (like today) we get some guy in a van who bangs on our door and tries to sell us meat, as if I want to buy food from some guy off the street. I think next time I'll just open the door and let the dogs get him.

[n2ize]

Since you are now a bona fide republician neocon you'll have to ask yourself, "what would a republican do in such a situation". The rest will come natural to you.

[KC0VWU]

Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Mar. 28 2007,14:48)]Since you are now a bona fide republician neocon you'll have to ask yourself, "what would a republican do in such a situation". The rest will come natural to you.
Yeah, crap, I forgot about that. I guess a good neocon would compare the price of this guy's meat to the local grocery store and buy from the cheapest source with no regard for the local economy... something like that.

[n0jaa]

I don't like door-to-door salesmen, period, regardless of what they're selling.

[KI4UDV]

This true story happened to me and my girlfriend while we were minding our own bisiness walking around the block in our neighborhood one summer day in Georgia.
Two guys and a freezer equipt Van/truck stopped in the middle of our road and one guy jumped out of the thing and asked us if we wanted to buy some meat!

My first inclination was to run away real fast, but he had some nice 4 color glossy pictures of meat from cows and such so I knew he wasn't selling body parts!

He then proceded to pull frozen cuts of meat out of the freezer. It is hard to judge frozen meat when they take it out of a sub zero freezer and it's 90 degrees outside because it frosts up pretty quick. We told him that we would think about it and took the literature so he would go away, and we eased away from the meat and started walking. We were polite, because since it was our first time being accosted by a mobile meat vender, we didn't want him to bring out a cleaver and demonstrate how sharp it was.

All in all a pretty bizzarre way of making a living. I shouldn't talk though, I might be doing it someday!

[WB8MKV]

Thats why you never see any cats around a Chinese restaurant...I call those restaurants " Dead Cat Carry outs"

[N4AUD]

Last guy that came here like that was in a pickup with a chest freezer in the bed. No idea how or IF it was running, but I said "No thanks."

[KW4MW]

Never buy shrimp out of the back of a pick up.

[w4rot]

Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,15:42)]Every so often (like today) we get some guy in a van who bangs on our door and tries to sell us meat, as if I want to buy food from some guy off the street. #I think next time I'll just open the door and let the dogs get him.
Be careful with that.
Last time our dogs ordered about $1500.00 worth.
rot

[WA4TM]

Just $1500.00http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif???

[K3XR]

Most towns have laws that regulate door to door solicitation, there may also be Health Dept. rules that apply. Next time they show up, call your local PD.

[w4rot]

Quote[/b] (kf4ppt @ Mar. 29 2007,20:48)]Just $1500.00http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif???
Breakfast meals.
Love a big dog!
rot

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,12:51)]Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Mar. 28 2007,14:48)]Since you are now a bona fide republician neocon you'll have to ask yourself, "what would a republican do in such a situation". The rest will come natural to you.
Yeah, crap, I forgot about that. I guess a good neocon would compare the price of this guy's meat to the local grocery store and buy from the cheapest source with no regard for the local economy... something like that.
Now you're thinkin right. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Better yet, see if you can buy it from Wal Mart. If Wal Mart doesn't sell meats then suggest to them that they do. That way they can put any remaining local butchers out of business.

[KC0VWU]

Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Mar. 28 2007,20:38)]Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,12:51)]Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Mar. 28 2007,14:48)]Since you are now a bona fide republician neocon you'll have to ask yourself, "what would a republican do in such a situation". The rest will come natural to you.
Yeah, crap, I forgot about that. I guess a good neocon would compare the price of this guy's meat to the local grocery store and buy from the cheapest source with no regard for the local economy... something like that.
Now you're thinkin right. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Better yet, see if you can buy it from Wal Mart. If Wal Mart doesn't sell meats then suggest to them that they do. That way they can put any remaining local butchers out of business.
That's a good point, I prefer meat from a factory anyway. Plus, our local butchers have this "living wage" mentality and I'm sick of their "me, me" attitude.

[kg4kww]

What kind of meat was he selling??? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Would you prefer door to door coffin salemen??

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,11:51)]Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Mar. 28 2007,14:48)]Since you are now a bona fide republician neocon you'll have to ask yourself, "what would a republican do in such a situation". The rest will come natural to you.
Yeah, crap, I forgot about that. I guess a good neocon would compare the price of this guy's meat to the local grocery store and buy from the cheapest source with no regard for the local economy... something like that.
Noooooooooo, a republican would have whipped out a shotgun!

As a democrat, I would have ask the neighbors to pay him to go away.

[KG6YTZ]

<shakes head containing a boggled mind> Door-to-door MEAT SALESMAN???

[N0KLT]

We have a couple of guys that come around a few times a year selling meat like that, out of a big freezer unit mounted on the back of a pickup like a camper. We also used to have an occasional guy trying to sell Omaha Steaks frozen meat out of a truck also, I think that stuff was all packed in dry ice instead of having a refrigerated unit on the truck. We also have a large and irritating amount of fresh fruit salesmen who come around trying to sell various citrus fruits by the box or by the bushel. Those guys are good, they carry a small kitchen knife that has to be sharp as can be and I have never seen anyone peel and section an orange as fast as these guys do. At least this one set of them does that. The guy starts peeling the orange when someone opens the door and within seconds he hands the person at the door a section of orange to sample. He will give you the whole orange whether you buy or not and as he walks to the next house you can see him digging another orange out of his pants pocket to start his "act" over again. The meat and the really good fruit sales people are careful to always display their city permits to be doing door to door sales of that type. Some of them have the permits clipped to their clothes and some have them on a lanyard around their neck. Be sure that if I don't see a permit I will ask for one. We have had a large problem with bogus sales people coming door to door selling various things that usually turn out to be scams when they don't have sales permits issued from the city. It's also amazing how fast the various sales people can disappear from sight when you ask for a permit and they can't produce one. It's not even worth calling the cops on them because they will be gone from the area by the time the cops respond, even if the cops get there very quickly. I had a friend that was a deputy that didn't live all that far away and just once in awhile he would be home when one of those guys showed up. He would of course, always ask for the permit and when they didn't produce one, he produced his badge and made an on the spot arrest and called the city police to haul them off. It didn't take long for sales people to leave his whole street alone. I always wished he had lived on our street.

[w2amr]

Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,12:42)]Every so often (like today) we get some guy in a van who bangs on our door and tries to sell us meat, as if I want to buy food from some guy off the street. #I think next time I'll just open the door and let the dogs get him.
Good thinking. That technique also works with Jehovah's Witnesses

[ab8ro]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ Mar. 29 2007,01:40)]We have a couple of guys that come around a few times a year selling meat like that, out of a big freezer unit mounted on the back of a pickup like a camper. We also used to have an occasional guy trying to sell Omaha Steaks frozen meat out of a truck also, I think that stuff was all packed in dry ice instead of having a refrigerated unit on the truck. We also have a large and irritating amount of fresh fruit salesmen who come around trying to sell various citrus fruits by the box or by the bushel. Those guys are good, they carry a small kitchen knife that has to be sharp as can be and I have never seen anyone peel and section an orange as fast as these guys do. At least this one set of them does that. The guy starts peeling the orange when someone opens the door and within seconds he hands the person at the door a section of orange to sample. He will give you the whole orange whether you buy or not and as he walks to the next house you can see him digging another orange out of his pants pocket to start his "act" over again. The meat and the really good fruit sales people are careful to always display their city permits to be doing door to door sales of that type. Some of them have the permits clipped to their clothes and some have them on #a lanyard around their neck. Be sure that if I don't see a permit I will ask for one. We have had a large problem with bogus sales people coming door to door selling various things that usually turn out to be scams when they don't have sales permits issued from the city. It's also amazing how fast the various sales people can disappear from sight when you ask for a permit and they can't produce one. It's not even worth calling the cops on #them because they will be gone from the area by the time the cops respond, even if the cops get there very quickly. I had a friend that was a deputy that didn't live all that far away and just once in awhile he would be home when one of those guys showed up. He would of course, always ask for the permit and when they didn't produce one, he produced his badge and made an on the spot arrest and called the city police to haul them off. It didn't take long for sales people to leave his whole street alone. I always wished he had lived on our street.
I just waste their time. I ask question after question after question and pull out excuse after excuse after excuse, they go away and never come back. I have fun, they don't make a sale, and I'm not bothered again.

Nothing's more fun than calling the jehovah's witness to task on that offer of a "free" book.

It's free.

Great, thanks very much!

But, we'd like you to leave a small donation.

Oh, I can't do that, it's against my principals, but I'd love to read the book.

Well, how about this pamphlet?

Well, I really wanted the free book.

We can leave the pamphlet for a fifty cent donation.

The pamphlet's not free either?

No, it's free, but we just ask for a small donation.

Ok, well then I'd like the free book and the free pamphlet.

Ok, we can take a check, we would ask for a $5.50 donation.

Oh, I can't do that, it's against my principals, would you like to talk more about god.

Well, I guess we have to go.

Aren't you going to leave the free book?

...

[kg6top]

You could always do what I do when the jehova witnesses come knocking on my door, answer the door buck naked with a pentagram drawn on your chest in lipstick. That scares them off every time! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[al2i]

I helped a nice couple today and they decided to give me really a lot of terrifically packaged moose sausages and firesticks. Looks yummy!.

I've never had someone come to my door with food except girl scouts and those delicious fattening cookies. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K2WH]

I'm starting to think I live in a phone booth or some back woods country. Never heard of someone going door to door selling "Meat". I assume we are talking about steaks, chops, hot dogs etc. Right?

But anyway, where I live, and I have been here all my life, I have never had a saleman come to my door to sell anything. Maybe its the dirt road?

K2WH

[w2amr]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Mar. 30 2007,03:06)]I'm starting to think I live in a phone booth or some back woods country. #Never heard of someone going door to door selling "Meat". #I assume we are talking about steaks, chops, hot dogs etc. #Right?

But anyway, where I live, and I have been here all my life, I have never had a saleman come to my door to sell anything. #Maybe its the dirt road?

K2WH
Maybe they read this forum. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KF0RT]

What is with the d-2-d meat salespeople anyway? Anyone ever bought any? We just started seeing some of this a couple years ago and I have a rule about buying anything from my front door. Girl Scouts only. Well, Boy Scouts too since the neighbor kid moved in.

Boy Scouts would make a lot more money if they ditched the popcorn for cookies. They need to fire their marketing dood.

73, Rob

[KC0PKA]

a beer drinking neighbor of mine had the jahovahs stop by, they were both attractive women, he asked them to come in as he stood there in his roab, they sat down to discuss god as he sat there with his junk hanging there,they exited right away and never came back!!
I guess they dont by meat of the street either?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[ac4ut]

Quote[/b] (WB8MKV @ Mar. 29 2007,13:17)]Thats why you never see any cats around a Chinese restaurant...I #call those restaurants " Dead Cat Carry outs"
Don't under estimate the flavor of a good dumpster cat.
Of course it does make your breath smell a bit like.....uh
cat.

[kg6top]

Quote[/b] (KF0RT @ Mar. 30 2007,05:20)]What is with the d-2-d meat salespeople anyway? #Anyone ever bought any? #We just started seeing some of this a couple years ago and I have a rule about buying anything from my front door. #Girl Scouts only. #Well, Boy Scouts too since the neighbor kid moved in. #

Boy Scouts would make a lot more money if they ditched the popcorn for cookies. #They need to fire their marketing dood.

73, Rob
Are you kidding me? Trails End is the best popcorn out there! Seriously.

[kl7aj]

Quote[/b] (kg6top @ Mar. 30 2007,02:38)]You could always do what I do when the jehova witnesses come knocking on my door, answer the door buck naked with a pentagram drawn on your chest in lipstick. That scares them off every time! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
I did that once, but it turned out to be a Girl Scout selling cookies. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[KA9VQF]

The DTD meat guys have been coming around here for years now.

One afternoon I was blazing up some splat burgers in the back yard when they came by, they tossed some mighty tasty steaks on the coals and we had a real nice visit with them.

We all ate free steaks, I didn’t bother to buy any more though.

[KD6NIG]

Quote[/b] (kg6top @ Mar. 30 2007,02:38)]You could always do what I do when the jehova witnesses come knocking on my door, answer the door buck naked with a pentagram drawn on your chest in lipstick. That scares them off every time! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
My parents, when they saw them coming, would hang a huge MERRY CHRISTMAS sign on the door. They wouldn't even make it halfway up the driveway.

Their neighbor got in a debate with them once because they first had the gall to pull into his driveway and pull right up to the house (most of the houses have 100' or so driveways). Then he told them to leave, and they instead started in their stuff. He told them "just a moment" went in the house and came back out with a 12 gauge shotgun, and told them to "get off his land or he was going to call the law!" (we were all outside when this happened). They got in that car and about wrecked getting out of that driveway. They didn't even come to visit us, they just left the neighborhood. After that, they rarely even knock on my parents door anymore-I'm guessing though they have some kind of list of houses not to go to, though, because they won't even go NEAR that guys property anymore.

But, they had been scared enough that they did call the law, and a deputy showed up about an hour later. He talked to the neighbor, talked to my dad, and nothing ever happened.

I never did find out if the gun was loaded or not, but they never did set foot on his property again!

I don't have problems with them now because they won't dare enter our fence because of the dogs in the yard. However, my wifes grandmother (who we live next door to) has purposely gone out to the fenceline when she saw them coming and purposely debated them, at legnth, until they toss up their hands in frustration and leave. Usually they won't even try to engage me in conversation if I'm out in the yard doing something now.

The only "salesmen" I get now is a kid on occasion trying to sell the local paper, but I already get it, so it does him no good to try to sell it to me. He works hard and puts it in my mailbox for me (since if its tossed in the yard, the dogs will reduce it to 1" squares in 2 minutes) so I usually give him a really good tip. The last time he was out trying to drum up business he just said hello and kept walking, remembering that I already get it.

I haven't had any actual salesmen though in ages.

[N0KLT]

For a along time I hadn't been bothered by the JW people. That came about quite a few years ago when my wife was having emotional problems. When she was having problems she would be especially vulnerable to people or places pushing religion whatever denomination it happens to be. Guess it has something to do with her strict upbringing. Anyway I would come home from work and on a fair regular basis find pamphlets and Watchtower magazines(I think that was the name of the things) from the JWs and I kept grousing about it and telling her I wanted her to have nothing to do with them. But there was a regular group that would come around led by a little old lady who were trying to get their hooks into her. One day I was home with a bad cold or flu or something and was laying in the recliner in the living room which gave me a view when fully reclined of the front door. I was about half asleep and heard the door bell and my wife say something about they couldn't come in because I was home and didn't want them in the house. At this point, I leaned the recliner back as far as I could and roared out in my best ogre voice asking if that was the G** d*** Jehovah's Witnesses and if it was tell them to get their ***es out of my house and off my property and stay off my property or I was going to call the cops and file trespassing charges on them. That stopped them from coming to the house but I found out the old lady was calling my wife on a regular basis and was working on her over the phone. By this time my wife was over her emotional problems and no longer vulnerable to their pleas and stories. She told me about this old gal calling and one day the old bat happened to call when I was home from work on a day off of some kind. I took the phone from my wife and told this old bat that if she or anyone else from that group ever called our house again or showed up on my front steps that I would get my lawyer to file a court injunction against them and if they did it again they would go to jail or I would sue them to oblivion. She sputtered and spluttered for a bit but finally took me seriously and hung up. It had to be another 15 to 20 years before we had another JW come to our door. This included times when their regional or national meeting took place in town and thousands of them came into town for meetings and to 'witness' to the heathens. At those times they would come out into neighborhoods in vans and buses and start dropping groups of 2 or 3 off at each block and let them work a side of the street while another group worked the other side. They obviously had a list or there was some sort of "hobo sign" on our property because you could see the group for our side of the street glance at our address and property and keep on walking down the sidewalk, once in awhile the child of the group would start up the drive and one of the adults would stop the child and they would go on passed. A few years ago, we started getting an occasional JW come to the door so whatever fear they had of us was gone or they figured by now somebody else lived there. It usually does not take long for me to reinforce and reinstate their not wanting any part of us. I know I have had several neighbors notice over the years that the JWs avoid our place like the plague and say something, I just smile when asked and say something about just living right I guess.

[KI4SQT]

Quote[/b] (w2amr @ Mar. 29 2007,02:48)]Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ Mar. 29 2007,12:42)]Every so often (like today) we get some guy in a van who bangs on our door and tries to sell us meat, as if I want to buy food from some guy off the street. #I think next time I'll just open the door and let the dogs get him.
Good thinking. That technique also works with Jehovah's Witnesses
Another one that works great on them is to have your wife or a friend lay down on your front sidewalk on Friday evening and draw a chalk line around them, add some yellow tape around the "scene", three or four empty cartridges, pour a cup of water in the middle with red food coloring in it, and sprinkle a few copies of the "Watchtower" around...Lock door and go to sleep...

[KI4PEQ]

Quote[/b] (kg6top @ Mar. 30 2007,03:38)]You could always do what I do when the jehova witnesses come knocking on my door, answer the door buck naked with a pentagram drawn on your chest in lipstick. That scares them off every time! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Especially if you ask them if they are the virgin sacrifices you ordered over the telephone. Scold them because they are late, and still clothed!

[kg4kww]

Did he show you his meat?
Did you like his meat?

Would your OL get angry if you got some
meat from a stranger?

Would you prefer door to door coffin salemen??

Don't be scred speak up.

[w2amr]

Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Mar. 30 2007,19:21)]Did he show you his meat?
Did you like his meat?

Would your OL get angry if you got some
meat from a stranger?

Would you prefer door to door coffin salemen??

Don't be scred speak up.
naughty boy.

[al2n]

There are a couple legit companies out there that do door to door delivery of frozen foods.

The main one I can think of now is Schwan's. They have been around since the 1950's.

Schwan's website (http://www.schwans.com/)