Originally Posted by EroticySteve

I love their tactics to start conversation. It's sometimes more painful to watch than a socially awkward guy trying to pick up a girl at the bar.

I was at Lowe's picking up a door hinge when from halfway down the aisle some guy looks right at me and says, "Mike? Mike?"

I ignored him, kind of thought he was just a local crazy. He then came up and said, "Mike, didn't you hear me?"

I go, "Umm, it's cause I'm not Mike. But i know how this dialogue goes. This is where you say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were a friend of my brother's from high school' That's where I correct you and give you my name, which obviously you don't know because this is how you market your "Booming Internet Business". Let me guess your business has been growing by leaps and bounds and you're not confined to working a 9 to 5 business and now you have lots of time for your family and all of the money you'd ever imagined right? You also want me to come to an informational meeting where you will pitch me and have other seemingly successful business owners there?"

The guy looked at me with a blank stare on his face. I took all the wind out of his sails. I saw him leave the store.

I felt bad for a minute, I did mean to call him out but I expected he'd be witty and exchange some mindless banter as I shopped for a hinge.

Just as I was about to feel bad I thought to myself wait, their pitches are always the same, it's almost as if they were scripted. If someone had a successful business then why are they recruiting at 8:00pm on a Wednesday night at a Home Improvement store?

Funny.