You know those people who come round and try to get you to sign up for a monthly direct debit? They are seriously pissing me off. Now don't get me wrong, I give to charity, I donate clothes etc, I have three direct debits set up to charities (managed to set these up all by myself) and before I had DD, I volunteered too.
But I am sick of how many charity door to door people have been harassing me! For example, over the past week alone, I have had three of the buggers on my doorstep:
One was collecting for the dogs trust but asked if I could put my very quiet, gentle Labrador on a lead while he tried to convince me to sign up as he was scared of dogs. Seriously.
One refused to go when I said I was in the middle of feeding my baby so could he go away. He even offered to take over feeding her while I read his marketing material. This creeeeeeeeped me out hugely.
One (today) rang the bell three times and knocked twice, waking my baby up after it had taken me ages to get her to go to sleep. I opened the door, told her what she'd done and asked her to leave. She responded by saying "before I do, could I talk to you about ..."
I have a piece of paper by my door bell saying I do not sign up to door to door charity marketing so could they please not call. They take no notice.
The reason I answered my door to these fuckers people when they do call is that the keeeeeeeep ringing driving me, my DD and my dog mad. I tried disconnecting the bell, they just knock and knock and knock.
What do I need to do to get them to stop?
At what point will actual physical violence get them to take my address off the register?
Is there a trade body I can report them to? But more importantly, can I actually set a bear trap on the way to my door? Or throw kitchen knives at them from the top floor?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ranting over. Time for gin ...