Door-To-Door Book Salesmen Still Exist?!

A young man is at my home, selling educational books door to door. He started his spiel even after I told him I wasn’t interested.

Me:
“My children are all adults, I have no grandchildren, and I know of no neighbors with school-age children. If we need information, we’ll use our computers or smartphones. By the way, your set includes a dictionary, right?”

Salesman:
“Yes, do you need one?”

I point to my sign above the doorbell.

Me:
“No, I want you to use it to look up what this means. Goodbye.”

And I shut the door.

A couple of days later, my next-door neighbor and I are talking.

Neighbor:
“Did that fellow who was selling books stop at your house the other day?”

Me:
“Yes, he appeared to be going to all the houses on the street.”

Neighbor:
“I thought he did. He told me all my neighbors he’d met so far were really nice, except that lady next door who was rude. And I said, ‘Oh, like this?’ and shut the door in his face.”

I guess he hadn’t looked up what “No Soliciting” meant, or he didn’t care.