I wouldn't say you're unreasonable, but I hope you weren't too hard on him. Lets be honest, door to door salesman has to be one of the worst jobs out there. I wouldn't think that he thought you were a jerk, he probably felt bad for disturbing your kids if anything.
I normally would agree with you, but today I started at the only job I could get: working at a call centre. We're just updating people's information for a business, but one guy I called was at a funeral and really laid into me for disturbing him. I also had a secretary refer to me as a waste of space. I felt bad for being a nuisance, but do these people really think I want to do this, that I take some stupid pleasure out of it? No, I felt terrible for calling someone at a funeral, and I certainly didn't mean to do it. So I'm thinking the salesman probably felt the same way.
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