Mostly though, right here and now, my reason for starting a blog is junkmail. My rage towards it has reached such a level, that I must write about it.
I don't think it's right to call it junkmail, really. Because the stuff that has me so livid isn't the stuff that actually comes through the mail, it's the stuff that idiots trying to promote their company come and leave on our front door. When did it become okay to walk onto someone's property and leave crap tucked into their screen door? It seems like it should be illegal to me. This isn't like when you park you car somewhere public, only to come back and find that someone's left a flyer on your windshield. That's annoying, but whatever. You leave your vehicle in a public place, something might happen to it. But my house, the house that my family bought and owns? If you're not a public official, you really don't have any business leaving crap on my door!
Yes, I have more to say about this than I probably should, but that's why it's on my own little blog, and not on LJ.
Maybe it bugs me so much because I've never lived in a place where this happened before. Of course it didn't happen at my last house-- we lived on top of a hill, fenced in by trees: NOBODY came to our house. But it didn't happen at any of the houses we lived at before then, either. This isn't my first time living in a regular neighborhood.
Also, it's starting to feel just a smidge hostile. As hostile as a mass-printed flyer can be, anyway. When we first moved in, we got a lot of business cards from landscaping and home renovation companies. "Let us help you fix up your house!" Okay, cool. No, but cool. We just moved in, and it's reasonable to think we might want some help fixing up the place. But it hasn't been a year since we moved in, and we've now started getting flyers from people who want to help us leave our house! I don't know how many people reading this also read the chronicles of The Jackass Who Wouldn't Give Us The Money For Our Old House, Thus Keeping Us Out Of Our New House, but we went through a lot of grief to get this place. We're not leaving this damn house. I suppose the crapass housing market is to blame. It just feels like we're being circled by sharks sometimes.
There's a new tactic I've noticed. Too lazy to get out of their cars and leave a flyer on our doorstep, some solicitors have started putting their ads in a ziploc baggie, weighing it down with something, and throwing it onto the lawn. This is bullshit. Now not only is there crap on our porch, but on our lawn and driveway too. Like our neighbors don't hate us enough for not keeping our front yard freaking perfect. And what do they use to weigh down the baggies? Sometimes it's candy. So...okay, now I've got some Tootsie Rolls. Sometimes though, it is rocks. Rocks! And not little ones either. If you hit one of these with a lawnmower, chances are you'd break a window, or some part of yourself, depending on where it flies.
So it comes down to this: people are driving by, throwing rocks...at our house. I don't care if it's in the same baggie as an ad for shrub trimming, it is still a rock, and it is still being thrown at my house. If anyone needs me, I'll be out in my front yard with a tennis racquet.
Thus ends my first blog entry. I don't know how often I'll update. It oughta be pretty regular until I find a job. If you check back, awesome. If you don't, I don't blame you, as I just spent 45 minutes ranting about flyers.
5 comments:
My baby has a bloggy! I'm so proud!
It must be a matter of where you live I can't say I've ever had the experience of rocks thrown in the yard with advertisements, but haqve had plenty of mexican food shop ads in our screen door, pizza you name it. Not to mention door to door mormons/religious conversion and just a few days ago I swore I saw one of those carts that people set up to sell food at major events, set up on our residential block. I gotta say though its the door to door religious informants that piss me off the most. They're the ones you feel you can't really tell off because they're so gosh darn polite, but come one seriously. You think I'm going to change what church I go to because you came to my door and handed me a flier...really is that your way of converting me? Door to door marketing? Whatever happened to conversion by example? Anyways that's getting into s different rant altogether. Nice opening rant makes me want to get back to ranting on my own blog.
Momma- Yup! Following in your footsteps!
Bill- We have yet to get any door-to-door religious informants, thankfully. I almost wonder if, since Riverside is such a primarily conservative Christian town, they don't see it as being worth it. Why go door to door when most people are already part of your religion? =P
Hi Lindsay!
How are ya kiddo?
Glad you have a blog - I visit your mom's every day. Glad you're following in her footsteps.
We don't have people leaving stuff at our door, except maybe a political flyer once a year. But we do have the religious prosthelytizers. I pitty them.
So... I wonder if you could put a "no soliciting" sign on your front door, and that would keep them from leaving stuff? Not the ones who throw plastic baggies, but - I wonder if you would stop the others. I think you should design a creative sign.
Nancy
Nancy- Hi!
Yeah, maybe a "no soliciting" sign is the answer. We can put it under the "bell out of order, please knock" sign. :)
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