Bad day!

[Carl Meyer]

Some people own dogs 'cause they don't have the courage to bite people themselves.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:52 AM
Subject: Bad day!


> 
> Greetings, Clyde,
>      I'm not a glutton for punishment, either! That is
> why, if I MUST tune in a home with dogs, I insist that
> they be locked up somewhere before I will enter. I
> warn the customer ahead of time, by phone, and
> resolutely remain outside if they "forget" upon my
> arrival. ( In actuality, many dog owners are highly
> amused by the grief their curs inflict on strangers,
> and "forget" on purpose! The dog allows them to
> indulge their anti-social tendencies vicariously,
> without legal repurcussions. )
>      A few years ago I did a major regulation on a
> 1948 S&S "M". It took several days, and each day, as I
> arrived, I had to negotiate the doggie-dung minefied
> in the driveway, carrying heavy toolbxes, a 50 pound
> tabletop, etc.. All with a dachsund and miniature
> collie yelping incessantly, and nipping at my heels!
> Yelping which persisted, unabated, for the many, many
> hours this task required, each day giving me blinding
> headaches!
>      On the last day, aware that I was about to
> complete the job and really not caring if I ever saw
> this woman or any of her friends again, I just somehow
> couldn't contain myself.
>      As her barking rats accosted me, she smiled and
> said in a cutesy-wootstie little voice :"Oh, look!
> They're saying good moooooooorning!" To which I
> replied,"No Ma'am, I think they're saying: "If we were
> bigger, we'd KILL you and EAT 
>      She never called me back.
>      I don't care.
>      Thump
> 
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