embarrassing add

[pianoman]

Is that worse than going into the bathroom in a theatre and wonder why all
the women are in the mens bathroom only to finally figure out I was in the
wrong place.?
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I am only as good as my last tuning"

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> From: ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: embarrasing
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 7:43 PM
> 
> Hello list
> I wonder if the following has ever occured to any of you guys?
> 
> One day last week I was seated at a piano in a customer's home and a spun
> around to face the elderly couple to explain what a "pitch correction "
> was and why it seemed necessary for their piano.
> 
> All the while I was talking they both smiled, almost as if they though I
> was trying to snow them. Finally, when I had finished explaining (they
> were still smiling) I turned back to the piano to perform my little
> "operation"......and I noticed, with a great deal of embarrasment, that
> my fly was wide open. This, apparently, was the reason for their
> continuous grins. I just started tuning!!
> 
> Then, at that moment I was reminded of a letter I had received last year
> from a religious organization. The letter explained about their
> particular phylosophy and about a man named Clyde who would sit up front
> during the sermon. He was placed there to show, graphically, the
> disasterous results of living a life of sin. They said he would sit there
> during the entire sermon, red-eyed, picking his nose with his fly wide
> open.
> 
> In the next paragraph they informed me that poor Clyde had finally passed
> away and that my name had been submitted as a possible replacement.!
> 
> I don't know who sent the phoney letter, but it entered my mind just as I
> realized my fly was open...and I burst out laughing. The elderly couple
> evidently thought I had discovered the wide open fly and was laughing out
> of embarrasment.....and they were dead right!!!
> 
> May it never happen to you!
> regards
> Ralph Martin