To whom it may concern,
Do not ring my doorbell
with your sales pitch.
I have no desire to be
tag teamed at my mailbox.
No, I won’t take fifty dollars
to put your sign in my yard.
You are vultures creating
mountains out of hailstones.
Mother Nature dropped
a few marbles from the sky,
but a flock of roofers is covering
the streets with bullshit.
©Susie Clevenger 2013
Sorry, I needed to vent. We had a hail storm last week. The hail was about marble sized and before it could melt the streets were full of roofers spinning dire predictions of roof damage. I lost count of how many came to my door or swarmed me when I went to the mailbox.
Kerry at Real Toads challenged us to write an open letter.
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Well said!
And of course, half of them are merely casing the joint.
We live in the middle of nowhere, so it isn't worth their while to knock on doors here, but....the cold calling on the landline means that I am rude to anybody whose voice I don't recognize right away:-)
And then of course, I have to apologize profusely to those callers that are legit :-)
I live a bit out of town. I cannot get contractors out here!. Makes me wonder about the economy...