to expect door to door tea towel salesman not to call me scum?

[FranSanDisco]

OK, so very worthwhile cause guy knocks on my door. He shows me a crate of tea towels, pens and dusters plus an id card. He proceeds to launch into long story of how he is just out of prison and if he can sell something he gets a %. I say "no thanks" to which his smile disappears and he asks why I let him go on? Eh?? I say "no thanks, never buy at the door" and close it and he says "scum" to the window. I then opened the door and said he needed to take the knocks with the job and don't call me scum and he slinked off. Is this a genuine venture? I think not. Should I have bought some of his old toot?

Wisteria - Big Issue sellers are not allowed to beg, so you could have looked at his ID and reported him.

People who sell at the door or street corner are by definition down on their luck. The fact that so often they DO behave politely is a credit to Big Issue and other organisations who help them.

OP - the ex-con who called you scum was out of order, but at least there was no physical violence and he left at once. He could have been convicted of much worse behaviour before his sentence, so for him this could be an improvement.

I know that EW!! I'm not that much of a bitch tho'

I'm sure you're not, Wisteria.