Monday, July 11, 2005

Broken bloody bells

Lots of doorknocking over the weekend, and a pretty good response...

But, and I know this is a minor detail, there were an enormous number of broken doorbells. Seriously, it would have been about a 50:50 working to broken ratio.

Plainly there is a serious skills shortage in the doorbell repair industry.

8 comments:

Span said...

can i put in a plug for uniform letterboxes that are close to the pavement too? or would that impinge on the right of the property owner to make life as hard as possible for anyone trying to deliver something to them via the letterbox? ;-)

Anonymous said...

You guys are a disgrace blogging here. This site is so shallow - not a campaign site? What is all that cut and paste stuff which puports to be this young red's manifesto. Get out of here and stop giving him any resemblance of credibility.

You, Wood! Get a life mate. The beer fixation is not good for you.

Matt said...

You, Nonamous! Get a life mate or post your name. What are you doing commenting here?

Anonymous said...

I'm the nice anonymous one, of Totnes fame, and I would change my name if my computer wasn't so slow at loading?

On the campaign trail, I found the most awkward moments were those when the people told me to, in the politest possible way, to go away. My response to this was "so you probably won't be wanting a leaflet, then?" before leaving in a brisk, yet dignified manner.

Anonymous said...

This is silly

Insolent Prick said...

Have you ever thought that perhaps the doorbells work perfectly well, as does the Neighbourhood Watch system, and that the people inside the houses just DON'T want to talk to you? Could it be, possibly, that you're getting the same message that the rest of the Labour Party is getting: that New Zealanders no longer care for your mindless, PC nonsense, and are ignoring you?

I don't mean to discourage your otherwise futile venture into politics, Michael. Good on you. But broken doorbells isn't the problem. The problem is that your party doesn't listen to voters, and voters have stopped listening to you.

Michael Wood said...

Funnily enough IP, most people we speak to on the doorstep, regardless of their political stripe, are almost uniformly friendly and courteous.

Plainly some people develop the social skills needed to deal with the fact that others have different views, and other just, well, post pointlessly hostile blog comments!

Michael Wood said...

And no Spooks, even for me it would be a bit much to try and pin the broken door bells on Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley ;-)