The Campaign for Unobstructed Pedestrianism has been moving along nicely. The Queen has taken up our cause as reported by the BBC. In her Speech she is to introduce the Traffic Management Bill which will give more powers to councils to impose Tough New Laws on control street works. Well done Liz and Thank You! And lets use More Capital Letters whilst we're about it.
Meanwhile the CUP website has been updated to give advice on doorstep sellers and Tube Lurkers.
Another significant victory was scored by yours truly this evening...
There was a ring on the doorbell around 7pm. That's a ring caused by somebody pressing the doorbell button, not a ring actually on the doorbell and nobody actually pressed the doorbell itself. Phew! That's cleared that up. I opened the door to find a doorstep salesman there. My wife Karen doesn't like these people coming round at the best of times but definitely not when it is dark, as it was early this evening.
A guy waved some sort of plasticated badge at me and said he was from NPower. He wanted to know if we had taken advantage of low pricing options on gas and electricity. I said "Yes I have. Hang on." I looked round the hallway for something to sell to him. I spotted one of Nathan's shoes and decided against that. Some leaves had blown in so I picked one up and asked "Do you want to buy this leaf? Just £5". He was completely taken aback. I continued: "As you're selling something I thought I'd take this opportunity to sell you something too". And do you know what he said? "I'm not selling anything.".
Yeah, right. CUP 1 Doorstep Hasslemerchant 0
Oh, by the way, due to some sort of admnistrative cockup, I have not paid for gas for 7 years and therefore anything he offered me, no that he was selling of course, was going to cost me money. I have been in search of gas powered TVs, Washing Machines, Tumble Drieres etc. of course.
Posted by grahame at November 26, 2003 09:04 PM | TrackBack