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To ask have you ever kicked anyone out of your home?

105 replies

Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 19:35

Just had an awful awful sales experience with a fitted furniture company.

Saleswoman only wanted to talk to DH, ignored me and when the final quote came in double what we had been told by a store rep, she snapped that I looked "pained." She became really really surly and obnoxious. When we said we would need to think about it, she stormed off huffing and puffing all the way, muttering under her breath and knocking my 7 month old daughter in her chair in the process.

I feel like I should have asked her to leave. But have never kicked anyone out.

Anyone done it, why and was it worth it?

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Ginazon · 08/11/2018 19:39

A similar situation with a window salesman which started off badly when he came in reeking of cigarettes. He was every sleazy stereotype in the book and again, when we said we wanted to think about he came out with, ‘well if I go out that door then these deals leave with me!’ We said that was fine with us Grin

ElsieMc · 08/11/2018 19:48

Yes, nearby second home owners who complain about everyone and everything. It was our hedge this time.

We had just spent a traumatic week in family court when our grandchildren were placed with us after a disputed hearing and we were physically and emotionally drained. I just looked at the petty, pedantic old farts who had invited themselves in and said "get out". They look at me blankly so I shouted it. As they left, I picked up the yard brush and chased them down the road trying to poke them with the bristly bit as my youngest dd tried to stop me. It was worth it to see their faces. Funnily enough they actually didn't complain about that.

Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 21:16

Invited themselves in Elsie? Good they were turfed out!

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MrsTommyBanks · 08/11/2018 21:18

Yes. One of my adult DCs friends for making a racist statement.

Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 21:22

What was said and to whom may I ask?

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GoneWishing · 08/11/2018 21:22

Well kind of. But he took a shit on the shower floor... Angry Envy

Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 21:24

Gone Wishing was he a human or doggy?

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FadedRed · 08/11/2018 21:24

ElsieMc oh my word! It must have been a really stressful time for you Flowers but the mental image I have of you chasing after your horrible neighbours with a broom has made me Grin

TheBonyFinger · 08/11/2018 21:25

Many times, in my well-spent youth.

Not so much now, as I don't welcome visitors any more.

I am a surly crone.

Echobelly · 08/11/2018 21:26

DH threw out his mum a few days after we came home from hospital with DD (our first child) and were having a happy time together until MIL came in, looked around our untidy-but-not-dirty flat as though it were an unsanitary pit and loudly declared that we were obviously 'Not coping'. Well - we were until she came along! So he told her in no uncertain terms to leave. She did calm down after that about the childrearing, I'll give her that.

Pebblesandfriends · 08/11/2018 21:27

Yes, several of DH's mates for being too drunk Grin

GoneWishing · 08/11/2018 21:28

Gone Wishing was he a human or doggy?

Human male. It was a long time ago, back in my student days, though, if that somehow makes it less bad? I actually think we had already told him he needed to leave because he was being generally obnoxious, and he went to you the loo before leaving, and it was a revenge shit, or something. I see him as a friend of a friend on FB every now and again, and all I can think about still is that mate, you shat in my shower!

Babybearsporij · 08/11/2018 21:29

Yes, a couple of times, both friends, in younger days.

MamaLovesMango · 08/11/2018 21:31

Yes. Relative’s abusive partner last Xmas. He started on her in my kitchen so DH got hold of him and threw him through the door I was holding open.

ImHudsonHesHicks · 08/11/2018 21:31

I did. A dreadful loud, rude, brash American traveller. I owned a B&B. It was a really lovely place. We had a 4 star AA rating and due to the the rural Scottish area we were in, it was just £25pp inc breakfast. Any more would price out many backpackers and seasonal farm workers.
We were rarely not fully booked.

A man knocked on the door wanting a family room. Luckily I had one available. I showed him the room huge suite with a Kingsize bed and two singles. Big enough to have a settee in as well.

He loved it but told me he'd need to go check with his wife. She came inside from the car and started pulling up my freshly made beds, ripping back the covers and mattresses telling me that they were terrible quality and we shouldn't have divans (they were brand new after renovating the room and rarely even been slept in), She said we should have proper beds! She then stormed over to the 200+ year old sash windows and only one opened (at least 4ft wide so not a small window which is why we didn't repair the rest).
She told me that it was unacceptable! There was no air. She shoved her way past me into an unlocked room across the hall which happened to be my baby's nursery, flung the window open and said that I would have to leave the door open that night so that she could have air and it "might just do".

Completely gobsmacked I stuttered that we charged just £25 a night and we were extremely cheap and what she was expecting would be many times the price and in a luxury hotel. I explained the rooms were recently renovated and the beds were very comfortable and certainly weren't cheap! I also pointed out that we were in rural Scotland in the summer and opening of ANY windows at all would result in a million Scottish Midges filling the room within a few minutes.

She wouldn't stop ranting about how cheap and nasty our furniture was and "if you pay for better, higher quality we would get the right people in".

I couldn't get a word in edgeways. She asked what was provided for breakfast and was the bacon that "dreadful limp British stuff?"
She complained we didn't have a real coffee machine in the rooms.
She didn't like the colour of the carpets and matching curtains.

I stopped her and said the room was clearly not suitable and she should try the place down the road

She asked ma all sorts about it (price, breakfasts, rooms etc) and I told her I had no idea, I'd never stayed there only seen a sign for it.

"Well how far away is it?"

I told her I wasn't sure, about a five minute drive along this road and she'd see the signs.

"Well how far exactly?!?! A mile? Five miles? Fifty miles?!" She huffed.

I told her I didn't know, didn't care as long as she left my home and never came back.

Bitch.

Frizzcat · 08/11/2018 21:35

Yes, a health visitor who came to my home on a scheduled visit. Ds had a fall at nursery and had fractured his arm. He was in a sling and was still upset, in pain and hadn’t had much sleep. He had a speech delay and was later diagnosed with ASD - it came as no surpise to us.

Anyhow health visitor came round, sat talking and ds was all out of sorts as was I - PFB fracturing his arm at 2yrs old is upsetting. Health visitor points at ds and says “this isn’t normal you know, you shouldn’t let it put you off having any other children”
I stood took up and calmly told her it was time she left and that I was reporting her. Phoned her manager who was actually my first health visitor and knew me well and was appalled, had an apology letter.

pallisers · 08/11/2018 21:38

Guy came to give us a quote for insulating the house. His sales strategy was simply to refuse to leave until we signed a contract. It was the bizarrest thing I have ever experienced. We told him we had no idea of signing that day and he kept offering additional bits off etc. I left eventually and went to pick up ds who was 20 mins drive away. When we got back he was still there! dh unable to shift him. Eventually we ordered him from the house.

When I googled the company there was a litany of people saying the same thing. Ironic thing was the company itself was well-rated . If he had just left after his pitch, we'd probably have signed a contract with them.

I so wish I had done what Elsie did As they left, I picked up the yard brush and chased them down the road trying to poke them with the bristly bit as my youngest dd tried to stop me. That is classic.

Parky04 · 08/11/2018 22:10

Yep. Window salesman. Quoted a ridiculous price and he saw my reaction and then immediately said just for you I will knock 40% off. I then threw him out! When I rang I said best quote should be the first quote.

CaptainCallisto · 08/11/2018 22:12

Only once. DS1 has ASD and really struggles with social interaction - more with his peers than with adults. One of DS2's nursery friends had come over to play and his mum, sitting on my sofa and drinking my good coffee, looked at the boys playing and said "It must have been such a relief when DS2 turned out normal. It would have been awful if you'd been stuck with two spackers" ShockAngry

She was very lucky I didn't throw the coffee in her face! Needless to say she has not been invited back.

Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 22:22

Pallisers,

Reminds me of my brother who had a window salesman who stayed 9 hours in hus house. The salesman only left cos he needed food! Insane!

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Hellomatey001 · 08/11/2018 22:27

Callisto, staggering, what a disgusting thing to say. Deserved being kicked out.

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possumgoddess · 08/11/2018 22:46

Yes, my sister, in my first flat when I was very young, just married and pregnant. I fully admit I wasn't very good at cleaning but when she looked round and made disparaging comments on a visit with my parents I told her she could get out and wait in the car until they were ready to go.

HildaZelda · 08/11/2018 23:11

Yes, a local MP. An arrogant dickhead, and that's putting it very politely. He didn't actually get a foot in the door as I ejected him from the doorstep almost immediately. He started shouting abuse at me, as his shocked looking team stood there and watched.
He came round again a year later. Went to the houses either side of me but skipped mine.

I think he got the message Grin

treeogal · 08/11/2018 23:34

Elsie, you are my hero!!!

Thisnamechanger · 08/11/2018 23:35

Horrid ex boyfriend. Best thing I ever did 😂

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