How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand?

[noamnety]

147. Yes, it's a decline of ancient tradition and family values

and I am sure bill oreilly would be all over my ass for being a single mom for part of my life, commuting an hour each way for work and struggling to hold it together.

None the less, it's reasonable to assume nowadays that many households are not filled with extended families helping with all the loose ends like they used to be, and that the residents are already stretched to their limits, and many of those single parents can barely find time to pee, let alone deal with uninvited visitors making demands on their time.

Fortunately, other things have also changed since ancient times, like we have printing presses so we can just leave cheap printed material on people's doors so they can read it at a time that works for them. We have the internet for communication also.

And yet with all the new nonintrusive ways to communicate, people have been becoming increasingly MORE intrusive. We had one day last week when we had political people calling us - we had some spans of time where we got more than one call every 5 minutes. It's fucking impossible to sleep during the day unless you unplug the phone - which you don't always want to do in case your kid's school calls - and even if you do, then people are knocking on the door. You would think a no solicitors sign would be clear enough, but we got people playing semantics with that also and interpreting it as we still want random strangers interrupting us, so long as they are soliciting for votes or donations instead of selling a physical product.