LOL! The latest set of exterior decorations is now mounted on the front gates and doors.
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Gawdlmighty, i’m sooooo obnxious, even I think it’s funny!
Probably just like your neighborhood, the Funny Farm’s ‘hood is overrun with nuisance door-to-door solicitors. Some of these folks are peddling junk; others are trying to get signatures on petitions. Sooooo…it’s ringy-dingy-bingy-bong at the damn front door, practically every day. Dawn to dusk.
A year or so ago, I got the bright idea of putting up signs saying, in effect, “Please don’t ring the doorbell. No Solicitation.”
As you know, these normally have little effect on the legions of nuisances. Sooo…I decided to make the message a little stronger.
On side gate to the front patio:
PLEASE NO SOLICITING!
We’re not interested in what you’re selling.
We’re not interested in your political campaign.
We have already signed your petition, or decided not to.
DO NOT PESTER BY JANGLING THE DOORBELL, PLEASE!
AMAZON * UPS
Please leave packages inside the patio, next to the front door.
Welcome to Porch Pirate Heaven!
On the front gate to the same patio and on the same side gate to that patio:
AMAZON:
Please leave packages inside the patio, next to the front door.
Welcome to Porch Pirate Heaven!
On the security screen at the front door:
NO SOLICITING
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NO PETITIONS
****
Please!!!!!!!!!
Interestingly, this barrage of messages works!
LOL! As you may gather, these people are almost as pesky as phone solicitors. So a sign that says PRIVATE does exactly no good. And about 10% of them ignore “NO SOLICITING” SIGNS. But apparently beating the sleazes about the head and shoulders with your message gets through to most of them.
Now. If you could only do that with the phone….
Heh… Our neighborhood techno-guru, Will, set up a video system at his front door. So…he can and does capture the antics that happen in front of his house, when Amazon and UPS trucks turn up with thieves’ cars in tow. There’s one woman, in particular, who follows the Amazon truck around in her car, waits till the delivery dude drives off, jumps out of her car and grabs the delivered packages, runs back to her car, tosses them into the back seat, and takes off down the road after the Amazon guy.
Is Amazon Guy aware of this? Could they be in cahoots?
Hm.
As likely as not, I’d say. You’d think after awhile he’d notice he’s being followed. But…it’s gotta be a mind-numbing job. Maybe, just maybe he really doesn’t notice.
Anything’s possible. I guess.
At any rate, for the nonce the “no soliciting, no petitions” message is working. Now…if only I could make that work on the phone!