I've had several encounters with Amway. They always leave me feeling like I have just been molested.
One night when I was in grad school, I got a call at home from a random guy who I had barely met at work. He was very conversational, asking how I was doing, what I had going on that night. Really strange, since I didn't know him. He was around 50 years old, and I was 23 at the time, which made it even weirder.
Finally, he says, "You ever work much on the internet? I have a great opportunity for you." (This was in 1999).
I said, "Um...yeah. I am familiar with the internet."
He proceeds to explain this wonderful business opportunity where basically I would open my own web storefront and sell products. "Great, proven products," he said.
I asked him point blank, "Is this Amway?"
He said, "Yeah, I am affiliated with Amway."
I told him I wasn't interested and hung up the phone.
I've had two other encounters like that, except they were in public. I was shopping at Best Buy one time, noticed some guy watching me, and then he starts with the same thing. "You ever work on the internet?" They have some kind of canned speech.
I don't know what I do to attract these cretins, but they're out there, and they are scary.
