dizluvah
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I understand times are tough and people are hustling to make a buck but I just had a bizarro experience....
Sitting on my couch with the front door to our screened-in porch wide open, I see a white truck stop at the foot of the driveway and up walks a dude with sunglasses. I go out onto the porch, but do not open the door for the man, and proceeds to tell me that he is so and so The Steak Guy, he had some deliveries in my area. uh....ok. He asks me if I have heard of him, which I haven't and asks if we like steak. Yes we like steak. He invites me to come on out and look at the angus steaks he has. I decline, he says but it is 50% off for new customers today, no thanks. Only $2 per steak, you don't want to take a look...NO Thanks, I'm sure it is good but I'm not interested. He has chicken, fish, etc (OK my patience is gone now and I quite forcefully tell him to get lost).
He finally relents and drives a ways down the street to a man mowing his lawn and presumably starts his spiel all over again.
Seriously, are people buying meat from a white pick up with magnet signage that says "steaks" on it slapped on the side. He had what looked like 2 chest freezers in the back of the pickup but I didn't hear generator noise so how are they staying cold, not to mention where did this meat come from, has it been inspected, it is actually steak and on and on and on.
GROSS!! I have had one other door to door type person in the five years at this house, someone offering to "seal" my blacktop driveway - again no thanks. But the idea of buying food this way totally sceeves me out and I just had to post how shocked I am!
Thanks for listening....
Sitting on my couch with the front door to our screened-in porch wide open, I see a white truck stop at the foot of the driveway and up walks a dude with sunglasses. I go out onto the porch, but do not open the door for the man, and proceeds to tell me that he is so and so The Steak Guy, he had some deliveries in my area. uh....ok. He asks me if I have heard of him, which I haven't and asks if we like steak. Yes we like steak. He invites me to come on out and look at the angus steaks he has. I decline, he says but it is 50% off for new customers today, no thanks. Only $2 per steak, you don't want to take a look...NO Thanks, I'm sure it is good but I'm not interested. He has chicken, fish, etc (OK my patience is gone now and I quite forcefully tell him to get lost).
He finally relents and drives a ways down the street to a man mowing his lawn and presumably starts his spiel all over again.
Seriously, are people buying meat from a white pick up with magnet signage that says "steaks" on it slapped on the side. He had what looked like 2 chest freezers in the back of the pickup but I didn't hear generator noise so how are they staying cold, not to mention where did this meat come from, has it been inspected, it is actually steak and on and on and on.
GROSS!! I have had one other door to door type person in the five years at this house, someone offering to "seal" my blacktop driveway - again no thanks. But the idea of buying food this way totally sceeves me out and I just had to post how shocked I am!
Thanks for listening....
....To me the difference is they are a reputable company that I can find an address for and complain to the better business bureau about if I have an unresolved issue, not just a guy with a truck and some mystery meat.
