My OOPS

[John Ross]

Good point about some worthy folk still making the effort to call, when 
we leave a tool.

A lot of them don't, especially if it is a pair of pliers, or 
screwdriver they can use.

I wasn't meaning to insinuate, that this was all I have forgotten, 
through the years. I just meant, that I had forgotten everything, 
actually two tool bags.

I have lost/left many small things over the years.

An older friend of mine, who fixed electronic organs had a list of ten 
things by his door, so he wouldn't forget.

 Some of the notations were : lights, taps, stove, teeth, glasses, and 
zipper.

I think someone had mentioned stick em notes, good idea.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: My OOPS


>
>> *Well, I did it again. It has been 20+ years, since it happened.*
>> *I drove an hour for my first appointment of the day, got there at 
>> 0900
>> hrs., right on time.*
>> *Opened the side door of my van, reached in for my tools, but they 
>> were
>> not there. Yes, you guessed it, I had left them home.*
>> *So round trip of two more hours, and I started my first tuning two
>> hours late.*
>> *So four and a half hours driving today, made for a longer day.*
>> **
>> *John M. Ross
>
>
> Well, hey. If it took you this long, you're a lot more alert
> than I ever was. There are a few flip sides too. Leaving a
> mute, temperament strip, fork, chain nose pliers, voicing
> tool, or Vise-Grip at the last appointment is an old favorite.
> The "You didn't happen to accidentally put my metronome in
> your tool case, did you?" call is fun too. "Nope, it's on the
> mantle, with the 47 family photos and the mutant Ficus". The
> other one, I got this afternoon. "We found a tuning thing you
> might have left here this morning". "Thing"? Mental inventory
> not dredging up any out of the ordinary potential for
> transient stupidity (grading on the curve, I realize), I
> asked, "What sort of thing"? "A tuner thing", was the reply.
> About now, I'm wondering if anything relating to tuning that I
> own and carry could possibly be worth what is beginning to
> look like traversing the next 13 levels of Hell required to
> identify - let alone retrieve it. "It's a little box, with
> buttons on it", the caller mercifully volunteered, bypassing a
> good seven levels. "What's the name on the box", I ask,
> detecting that the barred gate at the end of the tunnel might
> just be slightly ajar and going for an end run. "Korg", came
> the echo from the Stygian Pit. "Nah", I said (trying not to
> sound too relieved), "Not mine, but I appreciate the call to
> check". "I expect a guitarist might be asking about it pretty
> soon - he's your guy". Assorted pleasantries, exit stage left.
>
> Cynicism aside, it does my poor old hammered heart good to
> find there are still worthy folk out there who will take the
> time and effort to make a phone call in the interest of
> looking out for someone else. Perhaps the species has
> potential after all...
>
> Perhaps...
> Ron N
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