Utter Senselessness

Recently I had a rather terrifying experience. As I was home alone, my doorbell rang. I did not recognize the man at my door, but spoke with him anyway. I only opened my big front door and spoke with him through our storm door. I won’t go into the long details of the story, but the important details of the story will not be left out...

The man, who I pegged to be at least 30 years old, claimed to be a local college freshman. He told me that his first college assignment was to meet neighbors to get over his fear of talking to strangers. After a lot of filler, he asked to come inside to talk. Not really knowing what to do, I simply pointed to our No Solicitors Please sign and said (albeit awkwardly,) “Uh, umm, no, no thank you.” This man then decided to start calling me a name which I find to be one of the ugliest, most derogatory words that some people choose to keep in their vocabulary. (I won’t even write it here, that’s how offensive it is.) I then shut all of the doors and locked each lock, and told the man (through the window) that he needed to get off of my property and that I was calling the police.

There are so many senseless things in this, that I can’t even breathe...

First of all - This man was coming to my house most likely to steal things. He went to my neighbors’ door and told them he had to meet his neighbors in order to win free books from Borders. Clearly this man’s motives were not the best.

Second - The sign on our door says “No Solicitors Please.” The “No Solicitors” part means that if you are soliciting something, say your neighbors’ time, then we unfortunately do not welcome you to our house. The “Please” part means we’re nice about it. Unless you call me names...then I call the police.

Third - His vocabulary. If this man had any extensive vocabulary, he would have been able to convince me that he legitimately needed to talk with me, and he would have been able to come up with a more intellectual name to call me. But alas his vocabulary was limited. All the more reason I should call the police. Especially if he is about to start college.

Fourth - Joking aside, this man was just out right offensive and senseless. I wished that I’d never have to call the police on any body; that would mean that we’ve all come to at least a moderate level of sensibility. Unfortunately this is not the case.

While I am sure that you, reader, will not go into the world trying to get into people’s houses, I just hope that this story will help you to be more aware of your surroundings, of the people you don’t know, and of the presence of senseless people.

Until next time

kp