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joe

In article >, lid says...
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> On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 04:53:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> > On Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 7:27:42 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
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> >> I'm not sure what "calls past" means (I even looked it up).
> >
> > We would say "drops by".
>
> Somebody knocks or rings on the door when I'm not expecting it I
> don't even look out peephole 19 out of 20 times. The door doesn't
> get opened.
>
> I was cornered by a roofing salesman a couple weeks ago ("Kyle")
> while I was sitting on the porch and I told him "Not interested.
> Keep on walking" before he even entered the driveway. Then 10 more
> times... "Please leave", "Just go away", "Get off my property",
> "stop walking. Turn around. DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER", "get the ****
> off my property", :"Now get the **** out of my yard!", "Yo! WTF IS
> YOUR PROBLEM DUDE!?!".... all the while he's trying to sell me a
> roof while advancing on me on the porch criticizing my 'attitude',
> criticising, my lawn, my trees, my bushes (which I had just trimmed
> and were spread out all over the yard)... "May I ask who did your
> roof last time?"
>
> That's when I picked up a choice stick I set aside on my porch from
> my tree trimming earlier, and stood up and advanced on him. Seeing
> the girth of my stick (or maybe it was just my girth <shrug>) he
> FINALLY got the message - He did some sort of funny little impromptu
> dance and then scurried off pretty quick-like.
>
Was he singing "Short People" by Randy Newman to you?

They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here