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MikeWaters · 06-12-2009, 01:05 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us...ef=todayspaper

Clark Addison · 06-12-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us...ef=todayspaper

When I was a teenager, I worked for a few weeks with a guy doing door-to-door sales. He did a real hard sale. He once told me "This is great, it's like being back on my mission". That comment made me want to go on a mission less. Fortunately, the experience wasn't much like my mission. I didn't go for the hard sell.

MikeWaters · 06-12-2009, 04:00 PM

At least it isn't selling pesticide.

What about the creepy guys who go into the BYU dorms and try to sell memory aids or BYU "frat" apparrel.

I know 2 BYU guys who did the pesticide thing, one loved it and the other guy hated it and started to hate himself.

These rackets are one step above the inner-city traveling troupes of magazine sub. salespersons.

RedHeadGal · 06-15-2009, 04:01 PM

we have a whole group of these in our ward--like 15 families all moved in at once, and they are living grouped together at this apartment complex. Many of them seem to be related.

What fascinates me more is the look of the wives. It's almost like they are airbrushed compared to the rest of us regular people: tons of make-up, really done-up hair, matchy-match outfits, boobalicious. And most of them like like they are 17, so I have to do a double-take to reassure myself that they could be old enough to be married.

This probably sounds bitter or envious. Not my intent, though. I just keep looking at them, though, because it's so far from what I am used to, in a land where it's perfectly normal for women to go around with no make-up on.

06-12-2009, 01:05 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Missionaries turned salesmen http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us...ef=todayspaper

06-12-2009, 04:00 PM	#3
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	At least it isn't selling pesticide. What about the creepy guys who go into the BYU dorms and try to sell memory aids or BYU "frat" apparrel. I know 2 BYU guys who did the pesticide thing, one loved it and the other guy hated it and started to hate himself. These rackets are one step above the inner-city traveling troupes of magazine sub. salespersons.

06-15-2009, 04:01 PM	#4
RedHeadGal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: DC Posts: 995	we have a whole group of these in our ward--like 15 families all moved in at once, and they are living grouped together at this apartment complex. Many of them seem to be related. What fascinates me more is the look of the wives. It's almost like they are airbrushed compared to the rest of us regular people: tons of make-up, really done-up hair, matchy-match outfits, boobalicious. And most of them like like they are 17, so I have to do a double-take to reassure myself that they could be old enough to be married. This probably sounds bitter or envious. Not my intent, though. I just keep looking at them, though, because it's so far from what I am used to, in a land where it's perfectly normal for women to go around with no make-up on.