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Kingofpain89 wrote:
Ah...now doughnuts are a whole 'nother thing.  I love doughnuts.  But I only eat them once in a great while....I am overweight as it is and dont need any more help there.  I really dont care much for Dunkin Donuts.  Shipley donuts isnt too bad...lots of interesting flavors there.  Krispy Kreme is more to my liking but they are way too sweet.  And I definitely prefer a yeast doughnut to a cake doughnut.

One place I keep thinking about trying sometime is Round Rock Donuts just outside of Austin.  They apparently have some of the biggest and best tasting doughnuts in the country.  Damn, now doesnt this look yummy:

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The doughnut....not the hand.  

I've probably passed Round Rock Donuts a dozen times...need to stop in the next pass through.

I am a doughnut lover.  My best friend and I had a pact growing up....when/if there was going to be an apocalypse, we would head for the nearest doughnut shop and eat as many cinnamon rolls until the big one hit....why not?  

I find all the chain doughnut shops (Dunkin, Krispy) to be abominable.  I have one hard and fast rule on doughnuts, to be followed religiously, and at least here in Texas you won't be disappointed: If ever you walk into a doughnut shop and the owners/workers aren't all asian, IMMEDIATELY leave the premises and head a block down the road to the next place.  90% of the time if the place is run by asians, you will get an above average doughnut, not too sweet, not too cakey, just right.  I have three local shops I patronize, all asian owned, and all have some of the best doughnuts I've ever had.  Other parts of the country, your doughnut making specialists may vary.......

Mike B.

Man I miss the '80's.  

Door to door salesmen.  Basically anything they sell will be more expensive than if you went direct to the warehouse because you have to pay them in addition to the product.  I had somebody from Zenith, windows people in the UK, to give me a quote for replacing the guttering on our house.  I don't live in a mansion and it would take a couple of workmen two/three days to complete........the door to door salesman tried to explain to me why he was going to quote £8500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for a few bits of plastic.  What was worse I nearly had to throw the bastard out cos he wouldn't leave.......and deep breath, relax.  Slam the door in their face

A) No.
B) No.
C) No.

I hate people, generally speaking. I don't usually answer my phone, and I tend to ignore people knocking on the door unless I am expecting someone.

Deadlord39 wrote:A) No.
B) No.
C) No.

I hate people, generally speaking. I don't usually answer my phone, and I tend to ignore people knocking on the door unless I am expecting someone.

This pretty much describes me to a "T".  

Funnily enough, now my front garden wall has been knocked down, we have had several "gentlemen" calling at the house asking if we need any building work done.

Cheers,
Malc

Kingofpain89 wrote:Not sure if this qualifies, but I purchased my broadband service from a door-to-door salesman.  Verizon was going door to door in my neighborhood about the time they started burying fiber for their FIOS network.  At first I was going to tell him no thanks, but he was a damn good salesman and was able to pitch me the service without coming off like a desperate idiot like most salesman do.  I got a really good deal on it too so that made it even easier.

I buy Girl Scout cookies from a co-worker's daughter so if Girl Scouts show up at my door I just tell them "LOOK AT MY LOVE HANDLES!!!  DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED MORE COOKIES???".

Too bad you dont live in Texas....you could just pull your gun out and tell them to "skedaddle".  As for telemarketers....they can all go straight to the ninth circle of Hell.  I usually toss a couple of obscenities their way and hang up.

I have a "No Soliciting" sign by the door. At least in this part of Texas, it is actually ILLEGAL to bother you when you have such a sign.  The few times someone has ignored the sign, I interupt their spiel screaming "Can you read?  Can you read? CAN YOU READ?" all the time pointing my finger at the sign.  And yes I have had to call the police on occasion when they tried to insist "What I'm doing isn't solicitation" or somesuch nonsense and keep obnoxiously trying to sell me something.  And yes I have had the pleasure of seeing a police officer write the idiot a ticket as he tries to wander away from my house when the car drives up (I live right behind the local police station, so it takes them less than a minute to drive around the corner and bust the moron).  One "salesman" actually started running to my astonishment as I dialed the phone for the police right in front of him.....guess he had something a little darker than just door to door selling on his record, who knows because they never did catch the creep!

Door to door selling is an archaic concept that really should not be tolerated in our day and age.....especially since many criminals use spiels and sometimes even fake uniforms to gain entrance to houses during the day.  At best some burglars used the pretext to scout houses that might accidentally have left the front door unlocked, or have no one at home during the day.  At worse home invasions and assaults occur when young women home alone open the door. We do have a lot of lawn care people that come by and leave their cards and/or adverts at the door, which doesn't bother me (I can choose to throw it away or keep it).  But if you come by my home to sell me something and ignore my sign, I will curse, berate, belittle and threaten you...hey, I work at home, it's my only entertainment!

I don't know if I've told this story, but my family has had really bad luck with door to door salesman. When I was about 8 or so,  A "legit" door to door salesman (I believe it was the ubiqitous encyclopedia salesman) forced his way inside our house when my mom turned her back while listening to his spiel and started wandering the house, eventually walking into the kitchen (where my mom had a knife on the table she was using to cut something) and sat himself down.  My mom had myself and my baby brother in the house at the time and was scared witless....she told him she would buy whatever he was selling if he would leave.  After she signed all the paperwork and he left, she called my father at work and the police, and the cops swooped down on the guy as he continued rambling the neighborhood. He was not charged with anything (he said my mom let him in and it was his word against hers) but it came out he had a rather shady past and the company that employed him immediately fired his ass when they found out what he'd done.  

I was pretty young at the time but I distinctly remember my mom crying and my dad screaming at the officers at the door as they told him they weren't going to charge the guy with anything, as he sat in the back of their squad car while they were taking my mom's statement (of course being a kid I thought the entire thing was rather cool). There is not a doubt in my mind that if my dad owned a firearm at the time that dude would have been stone cold dead and my father probably serving a couple years in prison. Thank God now for the Castle Law here in Texas.....there is no chance someone trying that shit on me or my wife (pushing past us into the house to wander around) wouldn't be laid out in a morgue with a couple or six holes in their body.

I actually did have a vaccuum saleslady about four years ago try to push her way in and was so flabergasted I didn't pop her one in the jaw for physically contacting me, although she left pretty quick when I spluttered something like "B*tch, what the hell do you think you are doing???"  I learned my lesson though and now keep my storm door with the screen closed when I open the door...it frustrates them to no end that they have to listen to me berate them through it instead of through a cracked open door.

Oh yeh and for the record I'm with Deadlord and BClarkie....I FUCKING HATE door to door solicitors.....

Mike B.

Now a days I don't get any.  Only have had one guy doing a poll because of this coming election this year, so I suspect maybe a couple more visits till the end of November.
Having worked as a telemarketer I know the other end of the line, but then the company I worked for did a soft sell.  Never had to deal with irate people, only a couple wondering how an unlisted number got in our database.  Course that was all before the Do Not Call List laws came into being, so I'm sure the business is probably gone.

ShaneG.