Door to Door

Yesterday, a door-to-door salesman knocked on our door, selling of course, an infamous all-purpose house cleaner, for only $60 a bottle, which is concentrated and will last you three years, never having to buy another house-hold cleaner again. Non-toxic, no smears or smudges. Have you met him? I'm sure you have.

This guy was on FIRE! He was speaking so fast, I could hardly understand him. He also said he had just had three "Monster" drinks. That explained it. I could hardly keep up with him. You've seen similar demonstrations, I'm sure, where they have a rag, take out a sharpee pen, draw on the rag and then magically clean their stained rag with this "amazing" cleaner. Why wouldn't you want that? (I have a sharpee art project on my kitchen table thanks to Mateo.) Well, because I'm not paying $60 for a cleaner. But wait, if you want only one quart, it's only $40. Hmmm, still too much.

"O.K.", let me show you what it can do to this black smudge on your wall."
Spray-scrup-spray-wipe, ta da... all clean.
Cool!
Amazing.
How about my windows? Same deal. He proceeded to demonstrate.
Shower? Same.
Stove? Same.

My mind got to thinking, "wow, this product is amazing. If only I could buy this man WITH the product to clean my house." I almost suggested that to him, but then realized it would have come out wrong, because that sounded a lot like slavery; buy a black man from the south to work for you.
Darn.
Then I thought, "Hey, if I could seem interested, and make more and more requests/challenges for his "super" cleaner, then maybe after about 1 hour, he would have cleaned my whole house for me. (It works in bathrooms, kitchens, floors, windows, carpet, etc.) And then I wouldn't have to spend the money on the cleaner.
Blah blah blah.
I got kind of bored after 15 minutes. Although, it was a very entertaining 15 minutes.
I left it up to Alex and said. "Whatever, it's your call."
Three minutes later, we were the proud owners of a multi-purpose cleaner for only $40.
How was Alex able to decide so quickly that he wanted to buy it? The salesman domonstrated how it so easily cleaned oil stains off the drive way. Guy stuff.

I will bet you $40 Alex will NEVER get on his hands and knees and actually USE that cleaner to clean off the oil stains from the drive-way. But at least now we have clean "spots" on our windows, walls and driveway. "No smudges, either!"