dirty girl

I never thought this day would come, and it has. I was outside planting flowers and I noticed a teenage girl walking door to door talking to my neighbors and getting rejected each time....I was totally trapped, she had seen me and I could not hide inside my house like I usually do to prevent my awkward feelings of rejecting some sales pitch. So she approached. She asked if I would like a free carpet cleaning in one room (heck ya!)....she also mentioned that for each home that says yes, she gets 25.00 towards a scholarship. I asked her if there are any strings, do I have to purchase anything, she says no. So I agree, I think "give a kid a break". So I am imagining that this is a carpet shampooing company that will clean one room and then offer some great rate for other rooms in the near future or right now...and I might bite, I have 5 animals and happen to like clean carpets....I am actually getting kind of excited about a possible deal and some really clean carpets. The girl calls some van in the neighborhood that pulls up in a few minutes...I know immediately it is not a shampoo service, it is not that type of van. I see several young people ( late teens) in the van, another girl steps out with a large box and it all clicked, they are going to try and sell me a vaccum "OH BROTHER! what have I gotten into now" I quickly run into the bathroom and try to rub off the word "SUCKER" that is written on my forehead with a sharpie but it does not seem to want to come off because, oh yes, I have about 20 minutes left of being a "SUCKER" to go. I know I could have backed off at this point, sent her back into the van and continued gardening, but I am a little too nice and too shy and too much of a sucker to do this. I watch her use my vaccum to clean my living room carpets and then she starts her schpeel...NASA designed the outside and Porsche designed the transmission, bla bla bla, voltage, coverage, turbo, lights, bags, bla bla bla (by the way the van has left to another part of the neighborhood, she is stranded with me until she calls them to come back). Then she vaccums with this Porsche to show me all of the dirt my vaccum misses all of the time...there is a bunch and I am not surprised, it is an impressive demo, I actually warmed up to the girl, I wanted to get rid of this extra dirt too....why don't they see this brand in stores I ask...I really don't know she says....in the end I told her that I truly wish I had the $1800.00 (you can rub your eyes but it will still say $1800.00) to spend on this vaccum but I DON'T and WHO THE HECK DOES????? Awkward chit chat as I go back outside with her to finish my planting as she waits for the van, she ads some more great things about the vaccum to our conversation and I smile, tell her Good Luck as she goes. I am comforted to know that I really hate carpet and am going to change my livingroom floors within the next year or so and have had these plans for months before this van of carpet cleaners came into my life and also comforted that she told me my carpets were actually cleaner than most homes.

Total time wasted: 40 minutes.