Tilter

[Scott Jackson]

This is not sadistic. If we were watching an endless procession of tragedy
day after day, i think that we would need to laugh too. Actually, don't you
find that it is so rare for a person to meet a 'piano tuner' that they find
the mere mention amusing? Like if you introduced yourself as a brain surgeon
for rodents, or as a geotechnician on Mars.......
You're a WHAT?!?!?!

Scott Jackson
Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Tilter; Was ca glue as pin tightener (TILTER)


>     I had a nurse laugh when I went to the hospital
> for stitches, caused by hitting myself in the face
> with a slipped stringing hook.
>      Nurses should not be sadists.
>      Thump
>
> --- John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca> wrote:

> > I broke my nose, two black eyes and a broken watch
> > crystal.
> > When I went to the hospital, and the nurses asked
> > what had happened, I told
> > them, and one that I knew, actually burst out
> > laughing. She had the same
> > sense of humour as myself. I have been known to
> > laugh at others misfortune,
> > imagining the situation in a funny way.