KIRBY!

So, a few weeks ago I am at home in the afternoon with the kids when the door bell rings. I answer the door thinking it is probably my friends picking her son up, but no, its a solicitor (so much for that ROA guideline!). He says to me, "we're promoted our business, and want to know if we could clean the rug in one room for you for free?" I'm thinking, "man, the playroom could use a good cleaning and if they do a good job, I'll probably hire them for the rest of the house", so I said "sure!"

well, wouldn't you know it...this douche bag was a vacuum salesman. Have you heard of the Kirby? I have, but I've never seen one in action. You can't buy it in stores, they only sell it door to door. I'll admit, its a cool vacuum, but it killed me to sit through the sales pitch (and I did because I am to damn nice ). This poor guy vacuumed everything to show me all the dirt in my house, which wasn't much because the cleaning people had just come. The kids really enjoyed watching him, so that was a good for me, but this guy was NEW and his pitch took forever. I swear, he was in my house for almost three hours.

Whats more, I was going to Seattle for a concert that evening, and I needed to leave my house at 6:00. Thank goodness I had showered already, but I had planned on doing my hair! No dice. No matter how many times I told this guy I was leaving soon, he just kept on with his pitch telling me, "we're almost done". No kidding, I made dinner for the kids while he continued cleaning the floor. FINALLY he got to the carpet cleaning and that is when Rob came home.

He asked what was going on, I told him "this nice mane is cleaning the carpet in one of our rooms for free." then I went and changed my clothes, threw on minimal make-up and left the house. YES, left the house with the guy still there cleaning the rug after being in my house for THREE HOURS! After telling me to never let sales people in the house (DUH...I'm nuts), he told me the guy finished and Rob said "great, thank, goodbye." He also wrote down their license plate numbers for extra precaution.

ANYWAY, the point really is this. When the pitch was finally coming to the close, he asked me how much i thought the vacuum cost and I said I had no idea...he gave me a price sheet and I about crapped my pants. This vacuum was $2500 dollars. No, that is not a typo...two thousand, five hundred dollars! ummm, yeah I'll stick with my Dyson.