Clyde's vent time # 2

[Paul McCloud]

Ok, here's my admission.  Same scenario, different street with same
number.  Evening time, street names aren't so well lit.  I go to the
house with the right number, look inside and see piano.  Ring doorbell,
young girl answers. I announce I'm here to tune the piano.  I ask if her
mother is home, she says yes, and her mother comes.  By this time I'm
inside, ready to do the tuning, but mother says she doesn't remember
calling to have a tuning, perhaps it was her husband.  She calls
husband, then says, "No, he didn't call".  Uh oh, are you Mrs. So and
So?  "No"!  I think I turned every shade of red you can imagine.  I say,
"Is this 'Such and Such street?".  "No".  "Do you know this other
street?"  "No"!  "Very sorry!  But if you need a tuning next time,
here's my card".  I went to the next street (the right one) and did my
thing.  
Another time I was doing some touchup in a housing development where
every other house is identical inside, but all look the same outside.  I
went to the car, and when I returned the door was mysteriously locked. I
knocked, but there was no answer. Oh well, I'll go through the back
door.  (I knew the guy was inside, because he was ill and in bed.)  I
got to the sliding door, and looked in.  A woman appeared and screamed
at me, why was I there, who was I, I'm going to call the police.  I
apologized profusely as I beat a hasty retreat...  Why do they make all
those houses EXACTLY the same?  
	
	Paul McCloud'
	San Diego


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:02 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Clyde's vent time # 2

Good point Susan. I went on a call to 801 W. Mixup Street a while back.
Knocked on the door. Young girl opened door. I said I'm here to tune
your piano. She said "sure". Showed me to the piano. I started tuning
it. Parents came home. Asked me "WHAT THE #&%$ ARE YOU DOING IN MY
HOME", etc., etc. Actually, it ended up that I tuned their piano and
they paid me and all were happy at 801 E. Mixup Street. I then proceded
down the street to 801 W. Mixup Street and tuned the scheduled piano!
Yes, you can walk into the wrong house - someone may even invite you!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@unlv.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Clyde's vent time # 2


> I don't remember who it was but I recall someone about years ago or so
on
> the list, (I'm not sure but I think it might have been Newton), who
had a
> client who told him he was leaving and to just go on in through the
back and
> tune the piano.  Well he went in, pitch raised and tuned the piano,
and then
> left a note that he would send the bill.  Well guess what...  the
customer
> called the next day wondering why he hadn't tuned the piano yet!  As
it
> turned out the neighbors were good friends and he ended up getting
paid for
> the job anyway, but wow what a lucky guy!  I think that one goes down
in the
> book for the most creative way of getting new clients.
> 
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
> > 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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