I have once showed up at the wrong house, lady let me in and I tuned and left a bill. That is when I found out I was not supposed to be there but somewhere else. Lady paid bill and I rescheduled right lady afterwards. Jim James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, piano benches, writing instruments (314) 608-4137 WWW.JamesGrebe.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:58 PM Subject: one out of ???? > What a WEIRD quirk of luck! I was making my nightly calls to schedule > tunings when I got a wrong number; I dialed correctly but apparently wrote > down the wrong numer. Anyway, a lady answered and told me that I had the > wrong number, and indeed I did. She asked me who I was and what was the > "nature" of my call. I told her I was calling a client to confirm a tuning > appointment for tomorrow. > > Long story short, she said that she had a piano and could i come to tune > it. I said yes, and I booked it for the following week! This is basically > tantamount to picking a name out of the phone book, at random, and getting > a piano owner who just happens to need a tuning. Now for the real STRANGE > twist; the lady who answered was NOT at her own home, but just happened to > be visiting her friend, who does NOT own a piano...so if HE had answered, > (which I'm surprised he didn't) it probably would have just been your > typical wrong number and that would've been that. One in a million, or > some high number! > > Terry Peterson > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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