I am a bit knackered from evading vacuum cleaner salespeople for three hours by taking my kids on errands and out for pizza. It is way too long of a stupid story to explain so I’ll just say I need to work on my confrontation skills. I was too polite to a pushy salesperson (I fought the urge to yell “Coffee is for closers, Willie Loman!” because I didn’t think he’d get my mixed literary references.) and paid dearly with hours of my life I will never get back. I don’t know why I was suckered, maybe I felt vulnerable in my home and weak when a human being with a penis offered to clean my floor. That? Never happens. When this salesman tried to get me to buy an overpriced appliance by questioning my feminist ideals? When he told me, “I’m sure your husband married you because you’re a smart gal and he wouldn’t mind if you made an important decision for your family’s health by purchasing this vacuumm.” and “Just a while back, women wouldn’t be allowed to be alone with a man making a sales demonstration or be allowed to make these kinds of financial commitments without her husband.”, I was irritated. When he would not leave while I was trying to bathe my kids? I was angry. When he wouldn’t leave until Mike said he would come talk to him the next evening, I fled the house with kids in tow to avoid any further sales pitches and told my dear husband not to let the mother in. It was ridiculous on so many levels and I’m ashamed I didn’t slam the door in the first place. Have you been suckered like this?

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