Rob: I have to agree with Wim: I should be the sole judge of other people's errors of judgment. Oh, it is so hard to be humble. Fred On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Robert Goodale wrote: > Well I'll revise here: This may not be the stupidest thing a technicain ever > did, (that title probably originates from one of the fly-by-night > "tooners" out of the phone book, but this is got to be the greatest > story of a "tuning gone bad" that I have ever heard! > > Rob goodale, RPT > > > Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/7/99 2:50:26 AM !!!First Boot!!!, rrg@nevada.edu writes: > > > > << > As I'm finishing up a woman enters the house and looks at me with much > > > consternation and alarm. "Who are you, and what are you doing in my > > > house?" I explain that her sister asked me to tune it for her, at which > > > she responded that she didn't have a sister, and would I please leave her > > > house, NOW! To wind up the story, it turned out that the piano I was > > > searching for was TWO streets north of Broadway, not ONE, and I had tuned > > > the wrong piano in the wrong house! > > > > YES, YES!! Two thumbs up and a perfect 10 in my book!! > > > > Rob Goodale, RPT >> > > > > First of all, I think we should only allow Fred to judge our mistakes. He's > > very good at it. Besides, he needs something to do to stay out of Phillis' > > hair . :) > > > > Second, the stupid one was the sister, who couldn't even remember where her > > sister lives. Us poor tuners just follow direction, and we shouldn't be > > blamed for being what customers tell us. :):) > > > > Wim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred W. Tremper, RPT Morehead State University Morehead, KY 40351 f.trempe@morehead-st.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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