The fastest way to get rid of cold callers

I guy pulled up outside my house in a pickup truck full of bush clippings.

He knocked at the door. I got my son to answer seeing as I have covid. My son shouted me, something to do with the hedge out front.

I went to see, and keeping my distance, I told the man, 'please don't get too close, I have covid'.

I've never seen anyone retreat so fast. He was straight in his van and away.

EDIT: I'm not making light of an awful situation, but after 2 and a half years of being worried sick, reading about tragedy after tragedy and having a couple of very close calls in my own family, it just cracked me up that I found this one little nugget of humour in an awful situation.

 

At school a fellow pupil told us a couple of Mormons had knocked on the door and they left at high speed when his stepfather came round the side of the house with an open shotgun over his arm; he'd just been shooting rabbits in the field at the back.