Relative Something

Getting everything in order around here lately. Set out the clothes yesterday for volunteers from the non-profit organization to pick up, but then realized they aren’t due until Wednesday. Lawn is mowed as short as the mower will cut, hopefully the last time of the season. The couches and carpets were professionally cleaned yesterday, as well. It feels like we are getting ready for something. I don’t know what that is.

One of the fascinating discoveries found during weekend chores

How many times do you welcome a stranger at the door looking to sell something just as you are settling down after a long day’s work? I don’t know that I ever have, but yesterday turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The gentleman was going door to door for the cable company to “audit” customers and see if they couldn’t offer a package that would save us some money. I’ve been seeing their literature for years, in which they market cable tv with internet and phone. The mailings have been excessive, and often so elaborate that I’ve wondered how it could be so valuable to them that they would put this much effort into it. But none of it was enough to sway me from a setup that we already had in place and that was serving us fine.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the mailings ever appeared to save us any money, and it would take at least that much to get me to make changes in a system that was working well enough, thus far. Well, in person, the offer was pretty clear and looks to save us easily enough to convince me to succumb to their passion to have us as a customer of all three services. I still don’t know what it is that they get out of the deal that makes this worth the marketing effort they put into it, but common sense would indicate that somehow, they stand to make plenty more than they spend, selling us on the idea. And it doesn’t hurt to send an incredibly likable salesperson to make the pitch. Maybe the fact that he recently played football for the University of Minnesota and that we shared a lot of interests appealed more specifically to me, but that likability part, that would work on anyone.