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Dave Smith[_19_]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:29:52 -0400, joe > wrote:

>In article >, lid says...
>>
>> 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:
>> >
>> >> 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
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
--
The other Dave Smith.