Rainbows

Okay, back to regular programming after last weeks brief interruption.

The Rainbow Lady.

So, I had driven to Elizabeth's house on that Thursday afternoon before I went to Spokane. I wanted to have a few hours in the evening to hang out with them of course! Right as I walk in the door and I am setting down my bag Elizabeth tells me "So someone is coming to do some presentation, but I get a $100 gas card if I watch their presentation." I thought, no big, they'll spend 30 minutes trying to sell her on some product and we'll go back to life as normal with a $100 of gas paid for. I proceeded into the kitchen to get a glass of water and looked out the window and saw whoever it was that was coming to do the presentation was arriving. The luck! Of course she got there right after I walked in the door. Also, Tory had just put the pizza in the oven. I hoped she wouldn't be there any more than 30 minutes or we would be eating cold pizza.

So the lady came in and started setting up. I had no idea what the heck she was presenting. It looked like a fishbowl/humidifier/coffee pot. No joke.

Here is a picture of it that I found online. So I assumed she would be spending her 30 minutes on selling them on this humidifier. Well, she spent about an hour-ish trying to sell them on this. At this point I was getting thoroughly annoyed, the pizza was cold. I mentioned at the 1 hour mark that the pizza was waiting and she said "Oh your dinner is ready? Go ahead and eat! Don't mind me!" Well who the heck are you going to present to while we go eat our dinner? I was positive she was done after finishing with the little air purifier/humidifier. But then she pulled out this monstrosity.

The way the house is laid out I was mostly around a corner from her and couldn't see it. I was trying to entertain Ryker and myself and pretend she wasn't there. All I heard is "This will just sound like a vacuum" And suddenly a very loud vacuum comes on. Oh, did I mention Michelle was taking a nap in the living room when this lady arrived? She was. But she wasn't now. The dumb lady, knowing Michelle was asleep, still pushed forward with her presentation and woke Michelle up. Now I had lost all patience with this lady. So I set Ryker loose and he went straight for her binder of notes. He flustered her before Elizabeth intervened. Dang Elizabeth. Ryker and I had had a plan to get rid of this lady. Also Michelle's nurse arrived during this time and the lady said "Well you have one interesting little family" Family? Ummm...I'm the aunt....she's the nurse. They have a perfectly normal family, thank you.

Next She showed how fancy her vacuum was compared to all others. She tried to show how we would never go back. Tory told her "Yes I would." That really confused and flustered her. Then she asked Elizabeth for a high to reach place that was hard to dust. Elizabeth looked around and said "The ceiling fan." ....tehehehehe....Their ceiling arches and that fan is probably above 10 feet. She just looked around and said "Well I can't reach that...So I'll do the walls." And she vacuumed the wall.

....ummm....huh? If this was a demo on replacing dusting...why was she vacuuming the walls? I don't dust walls....

So next she tried the "Bring out your vacuum so we can compare how much better my vacuum is to yours" act. Elizabeth refused to bring out her vacuum. The demo lady didn't know where to go from here. And she actually said that "Well I don't know what to do if you don't bring out your vacuum." Too bad for you. At this point I had had enough so I got up and went to go outside, I go to put on my Tevas, and what the heck? She had put all her stuff on top of them. Who places their supplies on top of a persons shoes in a house they don't know? Really. I stormed out barefoot. Elizabeth tells me at this point she mentioned I was her sister and from out of town and she wanted to spend time with me. Well the lady didn't get the clue that what she meant was "Leave!"

But finally at the two hour mark she was closing up her presentation. She then asked "Can I borrow your phone to call my office?" And this was actually the third time she had. Can we say tacky? She then talked and talked to her boss about how we wouldn't budge on the buy. Then she handed the phone to Elizabeth. Elizabeth honestly thought she was done, so she hung up the phone. The lady stared "Umm...my boss wanted to talk to you...can we call her back?" Elizabeth for some crazy reason let her call back. So then the boss yammered at Elizabeth for a while. Elizabeth passed the phone back, and then the sales lady talked to her boss again for a while. Finally she was done. She then took 30 minutes to clean up this ridiculous mess she had made with all of her supplies. And she actually had the nerve to disinfect it in front of us. What message are you trying to send lady? We all just sat back and watched instead of helping. Really I was just doing everything I could not to give her a rude gesture at this point.

After being in the house from 6 pm to 8:30 pm she finally left. Oh, and the best part? No gas card.

Cool.

I will never let a sales person into my home as long as I remember the Rainbow Lady. 2 1/2 hours through dinner and bedtime. What levels of distasteful was she trying to achieve?