It seems that Mr. Pushy, our resident salesman "on vacation" from his high pressure sales job in Chicago, now has some competition in his efforts to sell things to the citizens of Nutjob Hills. Ordinarily I would consider this a good thing because if people are buying from somebody else, they're not spending good money on his crap.
The problem isn't who the competition is, he's a local kid trying to make some money for college. No, the problem is that he's decided to sell textbooks and encyclopedias door to door.
Honestly until I heard about what he was doing I didn't think that there were any companies that still used the door to door salesman approach, opting instead to sell textbooks online and take advantage of the much wider potential of an online market. Not to mention how much they'll save on shoe leather.
I'm hoping that the kid can be talked into something that's a bit more in step with the times because not only is he unlikely to sell any books like that, Mr. Pushy will eat him for lunch (figuratively speaking of course).
It's no secret that I am not normally the vacation taking kind of guy. Most of the time I am perfectly satisfied to spend any actual vacation time right here at home. About the only difference between that and my normal everyday workday life is that, when on vacation, I stock up on everything I'll need and simply don't go out for anything for several weeks.
However thanks to Mr. Pushy and several natives of Nujob Hills I am giving serious thought to actually going away somewhere this year just to get away from all the hassle and unwanted drama that's gotten way above the normal (even for here!).
I was talking about this with Mr. Helpful last night and he actually had a helpful suggestion (it does happen once in a while). He started showing me some Outer Banks rental properties by Carolina Designs and I have to admit that I think he's hit the mark this time.
I'm talking about some classic looking architecture that reminds me quite a bit of New England yet still has it's own southern charm. Living here in Arkansas for as long as I have I haven't seen a two or three story house in a long time and the one I saw on the website looked great. Plus, it also included high speed internet access as well, which means that I could still get some work done if I decided to.
All in all, it looks like a great idea. In fact, it looks better every time I hear another rumor about Mr. Pushy and his latest sales scam.
Some people find the dumbest reasons to hate others. Because someone's skin is lighter or darker than theirs, maybe a guy's eyes are shaped differently or he makes more (or less) money, roots for the wrong basketball team, likes the wrong kind of music.
Honestly though, hating somebody because they're fat is even dumber than those examples yet many do.
Mr. Pushy (well, that's what I call him anyway) has turned out to have a lot more up his sleeve than merely selling ultra cheap knockoff phones as if they were the genuine article. He is stepping his sales efforts into high gear in a major way.
As I've said before, he has stated (more than once actually) that he fully intends to make a minimum of one sale to each and every resident of Nutjob Hills before he leaves to head back to with windy city and he is well into his plan. Never mind that most of the people who buy from him don't need most of the crap he's selling.
Think I'm exaggerating? How about this? Two days ago he sold a car insurance policy to Joe B. Even though Joe isn't going to be able to get his drivers license for an other four months. He sold a crystal chandelier to a blind man who lives in an apartment building with no place to put one, and most recently I hear that he has been pestering a guy to buy burial plots on the moon.
I understand the drive to sell. I even understand a certain amount of aggressiveness in doing the job. However this guy has been crossing the line since he got here and I for one will be thankful to see him leave.
I just caught wind of one of Mr. Pushy's latest projects. According to several reports (and a few rumors) he has been spending quite a bit of time and effort getting set up to sell iphone insurance here in Nutjob Hills. Obviously of course, that by itself isn't a problem, anyone that's spent the considerable money to buy an iPhone would be wise to protect that investment.
The one obvious (to me at least) problem with his campaign is that in all of Nujob Hills there are perhaps thirty iPhones total. This means that he's going to have to create a need in order to be able to fulfill it by selling that insurance.
Given that this guy has a history of shady dealing and selling "products" that are never quite what he claims they are, I have no doubt that there will soon be a fairly large number of knockoff imitation iPhones appearing on the market locally. He'll probably work out some kind of a package deal selling the bogus phones along with his special version of insurance for them.
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