tomorrow

[Edward Carwithen]

I was feeling really sorry for myself for the day I have had, until I read
this post.  OUCH!!!!!

Ed


At 12:31 PM 12/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 12/2/97 10:31:00 AM, hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU wrote:
>
><<It's you, Barrie.  No other tuner in the history of 
>tuning has ever had such a day.>>
>
>Barrie;
> In spite of Horace's usual complete analysis of any situation, I must
>disagree with him and offer the following as proof. :-)
>On a recent delivery, of a rebuild, the original rental truck I had would not
>start and of course the piano was already loaded.  The replacement truck was
>delivered to where I picked up the first truck and no one bothered to tell me
>until I called back wanting to know where the new truck was, of course it was
>after business hours by then and still no usable truck. Finally the switch
>was made and I got on the road. While enroute on a four  hundred mile trip I
>was ran off the road by a pickup dragging a very badly loaded trailer(or the
>driver was drunk).  At that particular spot the shoulder of the road was
>about a thirty degree slope and there was no way to get on the road again
>without risking tipping over.  I chose the lesser of two evils and headed for
>a stand of saplings because the grass was wet and I could not get the truck
>to stop going downhill (aprox 60 MPH). the ploy worked and the saplings
>stopped the truck but........... I was wedged in between a really large oak
>tree and the saplings--could not move forward or backward.....
>  A lot of people stopped to make sure I was okay and to offer help if
>needed. A tow truck was called and on appearing I was told that we would need
>a nurseryman to cut down some trees in order to get the truck out.....So a
>nurseryman was callled who finally arrived and said he could not cut down the
>trees involved because they were a protected specie.  So a state worker from
>the EPA was called for permission to cut trees down......On his arrival,
>after many many hours and darkness closing in hours before.......he said "nah
>go ahead and cut what you need to, they are not a protected specie.
> Well we cut down the required trees and I finally got on my way after many
>hours of woodland adventure and getting a ticket for failure to maintain
>control of my vehicle. (funny I thought that I had done an excellent job of
>not killing myself...oh well)  Arriving at my location for delivery I found
>that 1/2 of the promised help was not what it should have been and I had to
>do much more of the moving, lifting, tugging, pulling,etc.  (up 9 steps) than
>I had counted on. I was just getting over a week of an extrememly sore back
>and got that started hurting again. 
> In picking up another rebuild for the return trip we had to traverse a
>hundred million miles inside the house, up and down steps, to get the piano
>on the truck.  Now because of the damage to the truck, during my woodlands
>excursion, I had to purchase several rolls of duct tape to repair the body
>damage and keep the newly picked up instrument dry on the trip back to
>Florida.  Of course I fell off the ladder while doing this and hurt my back
>even more.
>  The rest of the trip was uneventful and my back is coming along nicely,
>thank you.
>  So Barrie you can see where I might not have too much sympathy for you
>because you had to tune several pianos in one day under trying circumstances.
> :-) And thereby rests my disagreement with Horace as to, <<"<<It's you,
>Barrie.  No other tuner in the history of tuning has ever had such a
>day.">>., if you count one twenty four hour period as one day. 
>My Best
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>
Ed Carwithen
Oregon