{"id":6036,"date":"2025-04-12T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2025-04-12T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:16:54","slug":"a-salesman-tries-to-trick-an-old-texas-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"A salesman tries to trick an old Texas lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old Texas lady answered a knock on the door one day, only to be confronted by a well-dressed young man carrying a vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood morning,\u201d the young man said, \u201cif I could take a few minutes of your time, I would like to introduce you to the very latest in high-powered vacuum cleaners, straight from California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo away!\u201d said the old lady, \u201cI have no money for such things!\u201d and she proceeded to close the door.<\/p>\n<p>The young man quickly squeezed his foot in the door and pushed it wide open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be too hasty!\u201d he said. \u201cAt least wait until you\u2019ve seen my demonstration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And with that, he emptied a bucket of horse manure onto her hallway carpet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this vacuum cleaner doesn\u2019t remove all traces of this horse manure from your carpet, ma\u2019am, I will personally eat the rest, cross my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old Texas lady stepped back and said, \u201cWait here while I go get a spoon. Hope you have got a darn good appetite because they cut off my electricity this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than he bargained for. That\u2019s for sure!<\/p>\n<p>If this story taught me anything, it\u2019s that you don\u2019t mess with Texas ladies \u2013 you might get more than what you bargained for!<\/p>\n<p>LOL!!<\/p>\n<p>Hope this joke makes you happy! Have a nice day!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old Texas lady answered a knock on the door one day, only to be confronted by a well-dressed young man carrying a vacuum cleaner. \u201cGood morning,\u201d the young man said, \u201cif I could take a few minutes of your time, I would like to introduce you to the very latest in high-powered vacuum cleaners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}