Nathan Payne knocked on a stranger's door near the Oklahoma border at 8 p.m. selling Dish Network. The homeowner answered with a gun and told him to leave. Payne was selling for satellite TV providers in rural Texas when the encounter happened.
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This, this one, we— I was knocking in Dallas, Texas, in the area of Dallas, Texas, maybe 2013, and we were selling satellite TV, Dish Network and DirecTV. Now, where you would sell the most accounts were like in very rural areas, like you'd even have to go outside of Dallas, Texas. So we drove about 2 hours north to the border of Oklahoma in this random town. So I get out. And I'm knocking and it's like 8 or 9 o'clock at night. We would go till like 9 o'clock and it's pitch black and I'm in this random town. Probably people don't know who we are or who I am. I'm knocking on this guy's door to sell him Dish Network and he opens the door and he has a gun and he's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, get off my porch, right? And I'm like, I'm here to sell you Dish Network, sir. And he's like, oh my, he's like, no, leave right now.