I'm sure I was a pushy sales-person at times over the past 50 years. Especially as a young parent, and when I was trying to demonstrate and teach simple logic and elementary reason to others in the midst of real-life among human beings. Real-life among real-people never being completely reasonably or logical.

Usually, in my experience, belligerent juveniles, bullies, pushy salespeople, most criminals/terrorists and political SUPERpowers are usually insecure people/nation who are seeking attention (and money)in a negative manner.

So this is how I deal with pushy salespeople now.

I tell the truth.

For example:

If had an aggressive salesperson knock on the door or phone as I'm writing this, I'd ask them if they had any ideas for how I could write a better article on Helium about how to deal with aggressive salespeople?

Or, if I was reading my book, I'd ask their opinion about my present bathroom reading;A Grammar of the Greek -In the Light of Historical Research- .

Or, if I was cleaning my shotgun I'd tell them the story about that time my friends and I were raiding a garden 50 years ago and we were shot at with rock-salt.

Generally though, because pushy salespeople are people too, I most often say I'm broke and ask them for money.

Or, in a larger context; perhaps commenting on juvenile comic SUPERpowers in 2008:

If anyone is pushy and trying to sell anything useless or too good to be true, or sell unreasonable world-visions and/or illogical global-thoughts to me. Sell me something as inane as CommonWealth for 6+ billion on Earth to live like juvenile Americans (and too many Canadians) do in the movies and on TV, for example. I usually refer them to the past 5000 years or so of local* NEWS (weather and sports) and subsequent literature in several major languages in public (funded) libraries and Universities all over the world, hoping they thereby employ some of the simple logic and elementary reason I mentioned? Or at least clean up their own back yard? Do something about The USA's (and Canada's) deteriorating major cities?

Anyway proper salespeople, I was taught, are never pushy. They merely ask intelligent questions. Good products and legitimate ideas eventually sell themselves. SUPERpower isn't required if you're selling something worthwhile and/or a good example is being set.

Perhaps all good salespeople (and politicians) must first then be effective teachers? Imparting intelligent thoughts to sane-customers, sane-students and a sane-electorate*? Including the truth?

I hope this helps.

Truly,

*local- Earth
*sane-electorate- If any Americans are reading this, please vote for sane-politicians to occupy public (funded) office.

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