Last summer I remember leaving my door to door job thinking "man people are expletive deleted weird". I was on a team that travelled southern Alberta towns, and literally met hundreds of people. I've got a TON of stories of weird people.
Some stories came from my boss too. I don't know if I should get into specifics... but lets just say there was a gangbang in Pincher Creek involving more than one species, my boss, and some of the town's finest. And by finest I mean surely their ugliest. It was a bad night for the poor guy.
Anyways... I remember on countless occations being told to **** OFF!!! And while I guess that's not exactly strange or unexpected- most of those ones were the people I hadn't even reached the door yet and they were bellowing from their living room after peering at me through the window. I always wondered why they didn't just not answer the door, or tell me to politely leave and i would have had no problems.
I was once attacked by a medium sized dog as I ventured onto somebody's property. I didn't have much of a problem with it (I was on their property and was an annoying door to door man and blah blah blah)- but two things stood out. There was no warning signs for the dog... I didn't even know the dog was there, ran around teh corner and attacked me, and the owner just stared at me as the dog was biting my leg. I had a few cuts- pretty much hoped I didn't contract rabies, and walked to the street. The dog followed me onto the street and continued to bite me, but on the other leg. The owner remained silent, just staring at me. I started to run but the dog kept chasing after. After about 10 meters I stopped, and the dog lunged again for my ankle. I dodged it by moving to the side, and it turned around to attack again. This time as it jumped at me mouth open I kicked it (actually fairly lightly...I really could have booted the crap out of this thing) and the dog just trotted off. I thought that was kind of odd. The owner didn't move a muscle the whole time. Even after I'd kicked it. No words were spoken.
Another time I rang a guys doorbell. He was quite interested in what I had to say, but seemed to be quite worried about something. He kept looking behind him and putting his hand to his forehead. He asked if he could sign up and I told him absolutely. Then this guy says "yeah that'd be great, we can do it on this table here, but you can't go to the basement. There's no way I can let you go to the basement. Just don't go there man." I laughed and told him there was no need for me to go there and not to worry I'm a pretty easy going and harmless guy. And then towards the end of the discussion as I was leaving, since we had been getting along pretty well I joked "its a good thing I didn't see that body in your basement". He went pretty quiet. I'm pretty sure I screwed up the deal at that point.. and he didn't think it was very funny. To this day I wonder what the big deal with the basement was!
I have more but.. you know..
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