The Census Stalker

I could not wait to receive my census in the mail this year. The commercials on TV and the letter I received stating that the census would be arriving in my mailbox soon, I thought was so exciting.

About a week after I received the first letter, the census arrived! I opened it and quickly ran through the questions. I thought they were going to want to know a lot more info. During the last census I thought one of the questions was how many toilets do you have in your house? Guess not?

I really dislike how the government dumbs things down for people:
Question 1: How many people live in your house?
Question 2: How many people live in your house that you forgot to include in question one.?

Seriously? Is anyone really that dumb?

So, I called up Mr. P to discuss the dumb questions and he told me he filed his census IN THE GARBAGE! Something I was so excited about, he threw away, didn't even open it. Oh well!

I filled mine out and mailed it the next day.

On a Sunday about three weeks ago, after one of our many open houses we are just sitting down for dinner and the doorbell rings. Could it be someone for our open house that ended 90 minutes ago? I seriously wish it was at this point. No, it's Zinthara (aka the Census Stalker) from the US Census Bureau who claims I never filled out my census. WHAT?!? I told her I did, recheck your records and go away - but nicer.

The Census Stalker has now shown up at my house almost every day for the past three weeks. She even came on Mother's Day! For the first week I told her to go away, I filled out the census. Now I'm done with the census and The Census Stalker! Sometimes when she comes I'm not home but when I am I don't answer the bell. And, one of my neighbors (they better not let me find out who they are) has been buzzing her in so she comes all the way upstairs. As punishment to my neighbors while I continue to do whatever it is that I'm doing I let the dog ferociously bark and growl for 20 minutes until he realizes that she is gone.

Mr. P has not received a follow up letter, phone call, email, notice on his door, stalker visit, NOTHING. All he can say is, "I told you not to fill that thing out!"

Lesson learned, in 2020 you can count us out.