[pianotech] a new one for me

[Terry Farrell]

Odds are low, but it can happen.

I was tuning a piano some years ago and the lady of the house (mom)  
said she had to go out for an appointment of some sort, but that her  
daughter was home with a friend (somewhere in the back of the house -  
I hadn't seen her). I said "okay" and she left. I really hadn't  
thought hard enough about the situation, but had made some level of  
assumption that the daughter was not a child. A while later I hear a  
bunch of giggling coming from down the hall. The two 13 year old  
(guesstimate) girls were playfully pushing one another from the  
hallway into the room where I was tuning the piano. Then the giggling  
increased and I realized that one would pull the other's pants down a  
ways and push her out into the room into my view.

I said nothing to the girls and closed up the piano, packed my #$&%ing  
tools in the blink of an eye and hightailed my arss out of that house  
house faster than Usian Bolt (world's fastest man....) could have.

Called the mom from down the street (she had given me her cell number)  
- told her what was up. She apologized, completely understood my  
leaving the premises, and we made another appointment to complete the  
work - on a day when she could be home for the entire service call.

That was one situation I wanted OUT of immediately!

Never again will I be alone in a home with a proto-adult. That  
experience had lawsuit and jail time written all over it.

Terry Farrell

On Aug 23, 2009, at 5:40 PM, David Love wrote:

> Though the odds of some event are slim I don't allow a situation  
> where I am
> in the home alone with only a minor child either.  These days I  
> think it's
> wise to err on the side of caution.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> The odds of that girl hitting on an old geek piano tuner is pretty  
> slim.
> Making up stuff about the piano tuner is not likely to happen.   Of  
> course
> if the piano tuner has a pedophile record...
> I just don't worry about these things and I've never had a  problem  
> in 35
> years...
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>
>> Yeow, you wouldn't do that in Houston. Friday a early teenage girl
>> answered the door, and I immediately asked if a parent was home. If  
>> not,
>> I would have left. In my neck of the woods to do anything else  
>> would be
>> risking jail time.............  I have two or three times tuned  
>> when the
>> occupant left for some odd reason- but I hated it, and don't think  
>> I'll
>> allow it again.  Thanks for this. Now I'll start asking. Again- in  
>> this
>> city it is basic wisdom. (Houston)
>> les bartlett