I'm broke!!

Barkes Knife Shop

Barkes Knife Shop

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Yesterday I answered a knock on the door, only to beconfronted by a well-dressed young man carrying a vacuum cleaner. 'Good morning,' said the young man. 'If I could take a couple of minutes of yourtime, I would like to demonstrate the very latest in high-powered vacuum cleaners. ''Go away!' I said. 'I haven't got any money!', 'I'm broke!' and proceeded to close the door. Quick as a flash, the young man wedged his foot in the door and pushed wide open. 'Don't be too hasty!' he said. 'Not until you have at least seen my demonstration.' And with that, he emptied a bucket of horse manure onto my hallway carpet. If this vacuum cleaner does not remove all traces of this horse manure from your carpet, Sir, I will personally eat the remainder.' I stepped back and said, 'Well I hope you've got a good appetite because they cut off my electricity this morning. What part of broke do you not understand?
 
Sorry for you (not so sorry for that salesman), hang in there. Same here ... Though I wouldn't do that sales thing to earn money even if I was starving...
 
I know this is a joke, but it happened to my Grandmother for real...before the farm had electricity.

He probably learned to look for the wires coming in to the house after that.
 
Thats a good one Terry.
Those vacuum salesmen are pushy. I hate it when they cant make the sale so the boss has to come in and get pushy too. Both can eat manure IMO. We bought a Kirby once and took 2 years to pay it off. Sold it the next year at a yard sale for $25
 
I'd rather take two years to pay off a knife!
Some people's values:rolleyes:
I've never had a vacuum salesman come to my door. To me, vacuum salesmen are an urban legend. Jehova's Witnesses on the other hand, we get weekly visits and respond exactly the same way every time, and they keep coming... (no offense to those that are).
:)good joke btw.
 
Bruce Bump said:
Thats a good one Terry.
Those vacuum salesmen are pushy. I hate it when they cant make the sale so the boss has to come in and get pushy too. Both can eat manure IMO. We bought a Kirby once and took 2 years to pay it off. Sold it the next year at a yard sale for $25
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It was funny to me when I saw it in my email. I know you all would love it as well. :)
 
I do not like door to door salesmam and dislike telemarketers even less. I had an incident happen to me a few years back that this reminds me of and it is not a joke. I came home from work one day and as I approached my front door, a young man came up to me from the opposite side of the house. He got to me just as I was opening the front door and started his spill about how he was a college sudent selling educational books to pay his way through college. He proceeded to push his way throught the door, by me and sat down on a couch and put his brief case on the coffe table. I informed him that I did not want any of his books, that my children were already out of school. He then started telling me how my grandchildren would need them. It suddenly dawned on me that this fellow was not opening his briefcase all the way open to show me his literature like most book salesman do. He would open it just wide enough to get his hand inside and pull out a piece of paper. At this point an alarm went off in me and I informed him to get out the front door and at this point he got a little mouthy. I told him to hold it a minute and stepped into an adjoining room, picked up a 357 magnum and walked back into the room. When he saw the pistol, you have never seen anyone pick up a bunch of papers and get through a door, as quick as this fella did.
Olympic 100 meter runners had nothing on this guy. He ran around the other side of the house and I heard a car start and tires squealing. He was gone before I could get a license plate number, just a description of the vehicle.
I reported the incident and being a LEO, I learned the next day that this fellow was arrested in an adjoining county when he forced his way into a womans house. A next door neighbor saw him push his way in and grabbed a shotgun and held him until the sheriffs dept coud get to the location.
I never did learn what they found in the briefcase, but did find out that he had been in trouble for some similar acts in other places. You never know about salesmen, there are honest ones and then there are some out there that are not.
 
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