customers is funny

[Annie Grieshop]

MessageWell dang, Rob, I didn't see your card in that piano when I was there
last week.  No wonder it sounded so good!

Annie Grieshop
still in Iowa and still happy about it (most of the time <g>)

Did anybody else hear the segment about morning commutes on NPR's
"Marketplace" program this morning?  I was driving backroads through rolling
hills, counting meadow larks and combines while listening to it.  They
should do one on piano techs -- and I hope everybody else's commute was just
as pleasant.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Rob Goodale [mailto:rrg at unlv.nevada.edu]
  Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:59 PM
  To: Pianotech List
  Subject: Re: customers is funny


  I can do better then that.  I used to live in Iowa for a few years, (took
me a while but with intense therapy I got over it).  99% of Iowa is extreme
rural and the state is littered with tiny paved and unpaved roads leading to
little towns with populations ranging in the dozens.  Periodically I would
get calls with directions like this:

  "Just Past the "Tasty Burger" restaurant take SR-234 for 12 miles heading
east of West UnderwearVille.  Make a left at the first dirt road, go five
miles, and then make a right when you see the rusty tractor.  Then go two
miles until you see the leaning silo. Our house is the one behind the maple
tree with the big dog out front.  Don't worry, he's friendly".

  Of course the piano was always some dirty neglected 1950s spinet with
breaking plastic elbows.

  Rob Goodale, RPT
  Las Vegas, NV



    How about the customer when asked what their house number there is along
pause while they go outside to looked at the number on their house.


    Wayne Walker

    Piano Tuner / Technician

    Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service

    264 Herring Cove Road

    Halifax, NS, Canada
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