Dear Mr. Meat Guy

I don’t want your door to door salt water injected meat. Next time I have to ask you 5 times to leave and not come back my lab may slip out of my hands.
Ok, I feel better.
DT

Would have left after the first time if you had told him that your not a meat eater and shut your door.5 min off your life talking to a guy you didn’t want to talk to.

LOVE IT!!

So last year I was down at the dock about ready to push off for a guide trip in which I was to meet my customers at Sha-Sha resort. I was pushed on time so was quickly trying to get the final things ready for the trip. I watch an old van growl up our driveway, and then witness a rather sketchy looking character walk up our deck. I sat in the boat waiting for him to retreat while I then watch them peer in our front windows. Wondering what the heck was going on I hustle up Mt.Granrud in by Snosuit mind you to further investigate.

I’m greeted with a “Hey Dude…….You know who lives here??” I notice a steak sign on the side of his van and can’t help but notice he has one flat tire. I replied “PLEASE tell me your NOT selling steaks from your van and that is NOT why I just ran up here!” The Dude Slinger replies “Not a steak eater huh!!……We’ve got seafood too and you look like a SEAFOOD MAN!!

Needless to say I assured him I’m not buying my families next meal from his nice van and would greatly appreciate his departure. He Squeeled down my driveway about 30mph. NICE!!

Later on that evening I am telling this story to a group of our friends when the sister of one of my buddies starts laughing and said her brother (MY FRIEND) just bought a big package of frozen goods from the “Steak Van”. OOOPS!! Everybody has to make a living!

Thats funny you mentioned seafood. When I told him we order organic angus a 1/4 at a time he mentioned his seafood also.
DT

Is there really people that buy their meat from a truck?

The neighbor has a big dog that likes door to door salesmen so we’re cool.

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The neighbor has a big dog that likes door to door salesmen so we’re cool.

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My great dane is good at making sure salesmen leave. Little do they know he’s a big softie! One of those meat salesmen was bugging a friend of ours. Next time she saw him coming, she let her two great danes out the front door. 350 lbs of dogs coming his way and he got the message.

Could be worse. Could have been Jehovah Witnesses.

Door to door salespeople don’t like me.

Back in the day (about 15 yrs ago) for those of you old enough to remember him… Rock-N-Roll Buck Zumhoff used to roll in the Meat wagon around this area hitting the businesses.

Its all high pressure sales. Like the guys that come around for tree trimming – your trees are always on the verge of death. The guys selling alarm systems – your neighbor two blocks over who you never heard of was just brutally murdered. Your shingles that you just replaced 3 years ago are ‘storm damaged’, etc.

I found it best just to be honest and tell them to leave.

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My great dane is good at making sure salesmen leave. Little do they know he’s a big softie! One of those meat salesmen was bugging a friend of ours. Next time she saw him coming, she let her two great danes out the front door. 350 lbs of dogs coming his way and he got the message.

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With that kind of fire power I bet he got the message. The funny thing about my neighbors dog is that he is the same as yours. He is a big baby. He’s a Rot that goes well over 100 pounds. When he sees you he will run up to you. All the neighbors know this and just pet him when he runs up. Now when the door to door guy shows up, lets just say he doesn’t stand there waiting to pet Victor.

I have nothing against someone making a living door to door. I just get all those high pressure guys showing up as Dfresh mentioned above.

I love the “kirby” vacuum people, they say they will clean you entire carpet and then do a 4’x4′ spot… Not worth my time cause I’m not spending $1200 (on the cheap end) for a vacuum cleaner…

My roommate in college worked for a meat co out of st Paul park I think. He made good money doing it. His big line was something like “I gotta get rid off this meat or I’m gonna get fired”. He was escorted out of a few towns by the sherrif. $500 plus a day was good money for a college kid in 1998.

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Back in the day (about 15 yrs ago) for those of you old enough to remember him… Rock-N-Roll Buck Zumhoff used to roll in the Meat wagon around this area hitting the businesses.

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Did he have a huge boombox on his shoulder?

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Could be worse. Could have been Jehovah Witnesses.

Door to door salespeople don’t like me.

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I’ve gotten to the point of being nasty when the JW beat on my door, swearing at them trying to get them to leave didn’t work the last time they showed up, but when he wouldn’t pull his foot out of the door, the 870 got his attention though.

Bought oranges once from a door to door guy, seemed pretty good, but I’m not so sure I’d buy meat or seafood.

Ya used to see the trucks parked at a intersection with the shrimp for sale signs too, not to often anymore.

al

Kind of off topic, but last year, a guy came around for replacement windows. I wasn’t really planning on it, but the wife really wanted new windows (OK, ours were not too good), so we had him come and give us his spiel and what not. Now, he really put the pressure on us, which really, really turns me off, so there was no way I was buying from this guy, no matter how good his windows were. After that, I got quotes from several other guys–not door-to-door guys. We got pretty much identical windows from a guy that was extremely nice, put no pressure on us, and has come back twice to fix a few little issues.

Door-to-door guy – about $15K
The guy I chose – $4.5K

I feel bad that guys like that are out there pressuring less assertive folks and ripping them off

Ryan-

Was it a company called Custom Remodelers or something like that? Some sales guys were at my house a couple years ago talking about how I’d get a remodel at cost and they’d use my house a “model”. They just couldn’t get the fact that I’m an Architect, work for a general contracting company, and am a do it yourselfer.

Home Depot has these type of salesman walking around as well. Guess they don’t read the business name on my jacket when they start talking to me about kitchen cabinet refacing. LOL!

I had a meat guy at my house a couple weeks ago too. Said he was “in the neighborhood”. Had Iowa plates on the truck. Ha Ha in the neighborhood.

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Ryan-

Was it a company called Custom Remodelers or something like that?

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No, but similar situation. I think it was Energen Home Solutions, or something like that. He wouldn’t tell me what kind of deal I could get till I agreed to buy from him. I sent him packing and never heard from him again.

I bought a bundle a few years back and thought I was going to eat good beef. I opened a package of thin ribeyes, nuked them for frying and fried them. They weren’t good at all and not like the local beef sold in stores here. I bought several diffrent types in this package and won’t buy them again because of a strange taste in all the beef, preservatives? This guy had a white chest freezer in his truck with a beefs head and horns stenciled on the side of the freezer. I know what good beef and seafood is and it doesn’t come from these guys.

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Ryan-

Home Depot has these type of salesman walking around as well. Guess they don’t read the business name on my jacket when they start talking to me about kitchen cabinet refacing. LOL!

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Too funny! I stopped in a HD yesterday to get a case of spray foam. The cabinet dept manager litterally followed me around the entire store talking about how he can save me money on “better” cabinetss than what I am currently using…blah, blah, blah. He couldn’t comprehend that there is no way his box cabinets could compare to the high end cabinetry my cabinet maker does for me. So after 10 minutes of him following me around like a lost puppy, I agreed to give him some cabinet layouts to price. I sent him 9 different kitchen plans and about 150 options to price. Hopefully that will keep them busy for awhile so people can get their shopping done I normally don’t waste anyone’s time like this because I’ve been jacked around for pricing on way too many projects over the years. But when someone doesn’t understand NO, I’m not interested, I don’t use pre-fab cabinets…. they have way too much time on their hands. So, business lesson 101 – Here’s your sign!