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I am so jaded

It doesn't happen all that often, but it does happen often enough, when someone comes to my door that I don't know, I assume they're trying to sell me something, and immediately turn them away. I try not to even listen to their opening salvo. I just say "not interested", and shut the door.

Edie's not as jaded as me, as she will always "give someone the time of day", but not me.

The other night some girl came to the door around 6 PM just as we were sitting down to dinner. The door was closed, so I was able to ignore it, and she went away. But about 2 hours later she returned. This time I answered the door with my usual cynical, pissed off attitude, stating we're having dinner, and I wasn't going to buy anything.

She tried to tell me she wasn't trying to sell me anything (at least now that I think back I believe maybe she was trying to tell me that), and she asked if I were Eddie. Well, obviously I wasn't, so I said no, shut the door, and went back to finish drinking my glass of wine.

But when I told Edie what had happened, she said why did I do that, since it is very common for people to mistakenly refer to Edie as Eddie. Yeah well, now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss this girl. After all maybe she wanted to give me a million dollars. I seriously doubt that, but then again..........

Anywaze, maybe if I didn't live a country where there is so much hatred and distrust for one another, I might not be as jaded as I am, but alas, that's just not the case.

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Alan Posner said…
You need a barking dog.

When someone comes to our door our Lab greets him with constant ferocious sounding barking. This usually sends them on their way.

Little do they know that he just wants to play with them.
6:59 PM
Becky said…
I drove two streets over once to delivery mail (an obvious bill) that accidently came to my house. My son (while unemployed) found a credit card, he called Discovery and left his phone number she called us and it was mailed to her. People do things like that all the time. If you talk about it it sounds like bragging, but the menacing young lady could very well have been trying to do a good deed.

You need to trust people until they give you a reason not to trust them. There is far more good in the world then there is evil, but Goodness has a really bad Public Relations Manager.
3:57 AM
Marc said…
Yeah Becky, but you're a better person than I am.

Next time I'll wait a few seconds before making a judgment.
9:14 AM
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