Not home

[Court Stewart]

I was tuning for a new customer a couple of weeks ago.  She had to leave to
go meet someone for lunch, and told me to just lock the door behind me.  I
had to go out to move my car for her -- she drove off, and I proceeded to
re-enter the house.  When I opened the door, the alarm went off, scaring the
bejeezus out of me :).  Unfortunately, at this point the customer was long
gone -- leaving me to wait for the police to show up.  They did, and
menacingly demanded to know what I was doing there -- I explained the
situation, and they asked to see my toolkit.  I complied and luckily they
bought it :)

Needless to say I wasn't able to touch up those last few unisons with the
alarm blaring so I left.  The customer never called to apologize or to ask
why her alarm was going when she returned home.  Some people mystify me.

-Court Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Robert Wilson
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:56 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Not home


 --- Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: > In a message dated
4/27/02 8:29:45 AM Central
> Daylight Time,
> cedel@supernet.com (Clyde Hollinger) writes:
>
>
> > We discussed this some time ago.  I think there
> must be a big difference in
> > what
> > is considered okay in different areas of the
> country.  Some of you will
> > think I
> > am crazy for going into a home when no one is
> there.  But it's fairly common
> > around here for people to just not lock the house
> that day if they know the
> > plumber, electrician, piano technician, etc. is
> going to be showing up.
> >
> >
>
> It's common practice around here.  I've been doing
> it routinely for 25 years
> and never had a problem.
>
> Bill Bremmer RPT
> Madison, Wisconsin
>  <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here:
> -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A>
>

The worst problem is when the customer leaves after
you have arrived and, from force of habit, locks you
inside the building!

Bob Wilson


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