customers is funny

[Alan Barnard]

Amen to that! I'm in rural Missouri and most of my driving is through forests and farm/ranch land. When I visit St. Louis or other cities, I get very claustrophobic, especially in heavy, rude traffic.

Here are actual directions from the first name in my contacts list: H to Lenox then 63 S ~ 2.5 m to R on Cnty 6230 til it hits gravel then find yellow trailer with a fence then R past a big red barn then 90 degree R turn on Cnty 6245 short way to Grey double wide on R.

But it beats this sort of thing: "Well, Sir, you go on down there something like two miles past where the old round barn used to be then turn right at the old Tylor place (can't remember the name of the folks that bought it back in '72) and follow the creek 'till, oh, about 2 miles before you get to the old auction barn (not old man Johnson's, the other one that burned) and it's right there on yer left, about 8 miles or so, seems to me, if the creek ain't up to high. If you cross the county line, yeh went to far. Say hi to Thelma Louise for me if she's out in her field."

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "Annie Grieshop" 
To: "Pianotech List" 
Received: 10/25/2007 3:41:34 PM
Subject: RE: customers is funny


Well 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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