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Polling Alabama

This door-to-door sales stuff gets pretty boring pretty quickly if you don't do things to entertain yourself. The managers suggest things such as giving grandmas high-fives, messing with small dogs, exchanging clean jokes, inserting the word of the day into every other sentence as you talk to a non-buyer, performing slapstick comedy at the approach, etc. I'm into some of that stuff, but I have an idea of my own -- the question of the day.

So far, I've losely polled my strong customers on their astrological signs. I like to try to guess people's signs from time to time, and I now have an unending supply of people. So far I've done pretty well at guessing, but there are still a few signs that I am bad at picking out (Scorpios) and a few that I must never have as customers (Sagittarius.)

The sign thing will likely continue, but I want something that I can ask everyone -- not just my customers and their children.

So, I am leaving this open for ideas. Go ahead and post as many fun ideas as you'd like. If I like them I'll start asking people at the door, and I'll even keep track of the results.

I should probably start this off with a question or two of my own to serve as examples...

... ... ... OK, I don't have any examples. I couldn't really think of anything, which is why I am asking for help here. The question I asked an old lady that made me think of all this was, "Where do you guys party around here?" That made her laugh, because I was talking about all the old people she had just mentioned.

Dahnell's suggestion -- "Do your kids take the bus or their lunch to school?"
I don't think I'll ever use this one, because it creates too much confusion. I seek clarity and insight -- not confusion.

Note: Try to think of something that isn't open-ended if you can.

Posted by David at June 26, 2004 12:44 AM