Quiver0f10 Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Guess it was our turn. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Guess it was our turn. :lol: :lol: Ya ever think what newbies must think of threads like this? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalypso Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Came to our house yesterday.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Share Posted July 2, 2010 :lol: Ya ever think what newbies must think of threads like this? LOL Ha! No kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Ok, I have to know. Did they have a refrigerator truck or did they have a regular deep freezer strapped into the back of a pick-up truck? We get the latter. We enjoy eating meat in this house but DH has threatened to post a "Meat is Murder" sign in the yard to discourage these visits. So. . .what did you buy? :lol: Pegasus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mama Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I always got a kick out of these threads and a few weeks ago... knock at the door. DH answered the door and I heard another man's voice. Dh looked at me and said, "He is selling..." and I know my eyes bugged out when I asked if it was meat. My husband couldn't believe I would just guess that. :lol: Thanks y'all for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Boy that truck gets around... he was here Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Share Posted July 2, 2010 Ok, I have to know. Did they have a refrigerator truck or did they have a regular deep freezer strapped into the back of a pick-up truck? We get the latter. We enjoy eating meat in this house but DH has threatened to post a "Meat is Murder" sign in the yard to discourage these visits. So. . .what did you buy? :lol: Pegasus It wasn't a regular freezer but it didn't look like a normal refrigerator truck either. And no I didn't buy anything :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I have *never* seen such a thing. Sometimes I think y'all are collectively pulling my leg. Who buys meat off an unknown truck?!?!?!?!? roflol... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalypso Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I think it was a small truck with a freezer attached. I didn't look too closely because I was busy sending him on his way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyFL Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Did they play music and drive slowly through the neighborhood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 It must be that time of year. Before you know it the bipolar teenagers with the sob stories will be pushing their magazines. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Did they play music and drive slowly through the neighborhood? :lol::lol::lol: Meat pops! Come get your meat pops! We have pork, we have beef, we have chicken! Pegasus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Did they play music and drive slowly through the neighborhood? Coffee out the nose... :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runmiarun Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Hey wait a minute, he was just here Monday. And he even remembered me from last summer when I told him I was a vegan (I'm not but I refuse to buy meat from a truck driven by a strange man with smoke coming out the tail pipe). He asked me if I'd gotten my head on right yet and I said "no" (how was he to know I never have my head on straight). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess in the Burbs Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I had one this week too, lol! But it wasn't a truck,.....he's upgraded to a nice van with fancy pictures on the side ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Hey wait a minute, he was just here Monday. And he even remembered me from last summer when I told him I was a vegan (I'm not but I refuse to buy meat from a truck driven by a strange man with smoke coming out the tail pipe). He asked me if I'd gotten my head on right yet and I said "no" (how was he to know I never have my head on straight). Why do they wait until summertime to descend in force? You'd think that would be the last season they'd find people willing to buy meat from a pickup truck. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catalinakel Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I just laugh at the guy and say, you're kidding, right? What fool would buy meat from a guy in a truck? He sort of hems and haws then figures out I am serious and leaves. Where are the cops when we really need them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I have an out. I always say "Dude, I've lived in this town my entire life, and if I don't buy my meat from farmer Bob/Mark/Joe/whoever, I'll be getting the stink eye next time I run into them at the bank". That's for the hard-sell meat truck guy. The less aggressive or newbie meat truck guy responds well to the simple "The Schwan guy just left and my freezer's jam packed". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I just laugh at the guy and say, you're kidding, right? What fool would buy meat from a guy in a truck? He sort of hems and haws then figures out I am serious and leaves. Where are the cops when we really need them? I have said that--or something along the line of not feeding my kids meat from the back of some pick-up truck. I was having a particularly bad day but, that's when I'm the most brutally honest. This particular meat truck guy was wearing jam pants. Anyone remember those? For a minute there I just looked at him kinda dumbfounded. :001_huh: It's been twenty years since I'd seen pants like that. I did manage to keep my mouth shut about the pants. Just barely. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMK Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Its funny that this topic came up. I had never heard of such a thing until recently. 2 weeks ago my bell rings. Naturally, the kids are running around, I am having a wonderful day (not) and this guys shows up. I answer the door. The toddler is trying to squeeze thru my knees to get out the door. My 3 year old is standing on something and leaning on the window to get a better look. The oldest 2 (5 yrs and 6.5yrs) are looking at him from the other window. The baby is asleep somewhere. He says "I was just playing peekabo with your kids in the window". :w00t: Ok...probably harmless but in my family we have huge privacy issues and he is just lucky my husband wasn't home to hear that this guy was looking at his girls in the window! Anyway, so then he says "I used to deliver meat to you in (another town)". I told him no, he didn't. He argues back that he did. I ask him 3 times "what can I do for you?". He continues to describe my other house/location. Finally, since I am still struggling not to fall over and thus allow the toddler freedom to the outdoors, I ask him if he is lost. He looks astonished and then says.."uh..no..I am not lost". So I say ok and goodbye. The only reason I think he was there to sell meat was that he had a little sign on the door of his pickup (no freezer though). It was just totally weird. I mean seriously, if you are there to sell meat....ask me if I want to purchase some. Didn't I ask you if there was something you needed??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 There are 2 meat guys that come by here every year, even though I tell them no every year. The more reputable looking one has a deep freeze in the back of his pickup. I've never been able to figure out where he plugs it in. The other guy just has a big cooler. Um, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G5052 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 It must be that time of year. Before you know it the bipolar teenagers with the sob stories will be pushing their magazines. Barb I get so tired of it, but every year...haven't had the meat guy in awhile though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnitWit Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 LOL! Yeah...we get the rattle trap pickup with the chest freezer in the back, strapped on with bungee cords. Do they EVER come in winter? NOOOooooohhhhh! Oh, no! They wait until we are having temps around 100* plus *air you can wear*. GAH-ROHSE! I will never forget this guy coming through in the days after Hurricane Katrina. He had this sob story that he had cleaned all the meat out of his meat market right before the storm hit and was now driving around the state just trying to sell it all. I was stunned...this was DAYS after Katrina. My honest response was "Eww!". I realized when I saw the look on his face, he knew he'd been caught in a lie. Then, he start back paddling. I said "SHAME on you!" and he just turned around, went to the truck and left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Did they play music and drive slowly through the neighborhood? Playing Meat Loaf's Blind Before I Stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 :lol: Ya ever think what newbies must think of threads like this? LOL Or me! Every time I see a thread about the meat truck I want to vomit. Or come out swinging. Thank goodness they aren't dirtying up the streets in my neighborhood! Hmph! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyof4ks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 It must be that time of year. Before you know it the bipolar teenagers with the sob stories will be pushing their magazines. Barb I had the teens and the meat truck last week. A 2 fer lol. Gotta love summer.:glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachin'Mine Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 :lol: Ya ever think what newbies must think of threads like this? LOL I thought "Meat Truck" was code for something else - like Tea. :lol: We used to get the Seafood Truck coming around, but never the Meat Truck. "Vegetarian." sent them on their way. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleischdoc Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I live in the country and we often get the meat truck- first time I had to try hard to not laugh in his face- buy meat from the back of a truck-seriously? Then recently we got the fish truck-even scarier in my mind- old fish in the back of a truck- remind me to leave the big dogs out more :) Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 i never lie. and i mean that. except when the meat truck comes by. for the brief moment i am talking to him at the door, i am a strict vegetarian. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdalley Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 It must be that time of year. Before you know it the bipolar teenagers with the sob stories will be pushing their magazines. Barb I had one of those last week. But they were trying to sell me books. I think I ran the meat guy off for good. At least I hope so. He was downright nasty last time and I was trying to be polite but he got ugly so I yelled that anyone in their right mind wouldn't buy meat off the back of a truck in the kind of heat we get in this town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoHomeschooler Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Mmmm, yummy truck meat! NOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 (edited) It must be that time of year. Before you know it the bipolar teenagers with the sob stories will be pushing their magazines. Barb Or the "college students" wanting to sit down in your living room to show you some wonderful educational books for your children. :001_rolleyes: We had the meat truck once. We had another one I have never heard about, someone selling furniture out of the back of a truck. The story was he was supposed to make a delivery that got refused, so he needed to sell all the furniture, cheap. Yeeeeeah, that's the ticket. :tongue_smilie: Edited July 3, 2010 by Penelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanestMomInMidwest Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I didn't realize it was meat truck season already.... The meat truck guy came by last week. I work nights. I was sleeping. By the time I stumbled to the front door all I saw was the backside of the guy going down my front steps as my oldest son shouted after him "...and my mom says your meat is terrible!" I have no idea what was said before that to make him beat such a hasty retreat and was happy that ds had handled it before I had to scare the guy with my "I've only been asleep two hours since working all night look/breath" combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Then recently we got the fish truck-even scarier in my mind- old fish in the back of a truck :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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