Clyde's vent time # 2

[Farrell]

A kinda related thing happened to me today while on a three-hour service on a nasty little spinet. About while I was in the high treble raising pitch 180 cents, the lady asked how long I would be and I said at least another hour or so. She said OK, I just need to run up to the store on the corner. I thought no big deal. After a little while, one of the little girls walked up to me and asked a question about the piano. Then I realized that this knuckle-headed woman left me alone in her home with two little girls, I would guess about eight and six years old. She came back home shortly, but geeeee-whizzzzzzz. I never would have let that knowingly happen. I just can't believe she did that. This appt. was the first time she ever saw me in her life. I was just waiting for the police to bust in.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Clyde's vent time # 2


> At 02:48 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >After
> >ringing the doorbell three times, I tried it.  It was unlocked.  Since I
> >know these folks, I walked into the house and began to clear off the
> >piano.
> 
> I NEVER EVER do this. It doesn't matter how well I know the people.
> I decided awhile back that there's an invisible wall across even an open
> door, until it is dissolved by a live resident or a note asking me to come
> right on in.
> 
> Aside from the security system, consider the other possible entanglements:
> wife arrives home and finds me in the house? Or, from your point of view:
> Husband arrives home and finds a strange man in the house? A neighbor
> sees someone they don't know walking in when they know the owners are
> gone: they call the cops. Hapless tuner walks in, starts tuning, but
> on the wrong day -- halfway through the tuning people arrive for a
> wedding reception. You "know the people" but maybe you've mixed up
> the address with one very similar, and a very similar house -- people
> come home, find you inside, and don't know you from Adam ... etc.
> 
> Susan 
> 
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