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My colleague and I once got told by our boss to go door-to-dooring in Golders Green (for non-Londoners, the strictest, most orthodox Jewish area of the city) on a Saturday. We gave him the benefit of the doubt for about an hour but it became clear that absolutely no-one was coming to the door that day. So we spent the rest of the day going to Harvester and playing pool in the pub.
( .Yeti., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 7:59, Reply)