Say NO To Solicitors!

Yes, I'm complaining already & I haven't had this blog but a meer 24 hours. I am thinking of posting a NO SOLICITING sign on my front door! Not even 15 minutes upon arriving home from a long day at work, I get a knock at the door. As I open it, I do not recognize the face that stands before me so I immediately think to myself (Greaaat, someone is selling something...). She hands me a bottle of Dawn dish detergent & says "I'm with such n such company and we are just out in the neighborhood today to hand out free gifts & introduce ourselves". I say thank you as she proceeds to explain that her company is offering one room of floor cleaning for free with no obligation. I explain to her that I rent the home (with hardwood floors) and I don't think it would be best incase the floor were to get scratched. She ofcourse, practically begs to do our living room floor. At this point, my temper is beginning to spike. I tell her once more "I'm sorry, but no thank you". That's when she starts the typical lines of BS that I am honestly not buying for a second. She says "We just need one more floor so that we can end our day", "The boy in the van only makes a small amount to come out & do this", "Could we come back a different day after you speak with your land lord?". OMG, I understand that everyone has a job & I am definetly not knocking a working person but are you serious!? When someone says no, that usually does really mean no. To top it all off, at the end of our 15 minute floor cleaning debate she proceeds to kindly TAKE BACK the bottle of dish detergent & politely says "Do you mind if I give this to another nice neighbor?"! Shocked, so I didn't say my thought at the time. I handed this dish soap back & told her to have a good day. As I sat in the house & stewed for a few afterwards. My aggrivation turned into madness! Not that I cared one bit about a bottle of dish detergent but come on now, as a company trying to introduce themselves to the community...I don't think it is very proper to pass out a free gift & retrieve it when I deny the services being offered to me! How rude! Not only that, I did not ask them to come knock on my door! Looking back, I sooo wish I would have said, Nope I think I'll keep this lovely free gift from your wonderful company & slammed the door! Maybe it was just the icing on the cake from the "wonderful" day that I was already having but that just jerked my chain! Okay, I'm done venting for now. I promise that not every post I do will be a gripe session but sometimes a woman needs to let it out!