Jim: Who are these people who can afford to live in a gated community yet can't afford the "call interrupting" feature on their phone? dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of James Johnson Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:08 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Gated Communities I used to have a problem with gated communities, but now I live in one. The fact that it's gated had no appeal to us, we just liked the area and the house. Ours has 24/7 guards which is somewhat unusual for our area. So far they have been courteous to our guests. More common in our area are the non manned gates where you find the customer's name and enter their code on the key pad. My big objection is that these systems are frequently tied into the house phone and if the customer is talking to someone, you just get a busy signal. You just sit there hoping someone else will drive up and open the gate. Very frustrating when you are not being paid to sit there and wait for them to finish their phone call. You can't even call them on your cell because their phone is busy. I prefer the gates that have real guards who can help you get in. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: tcc440 at netscape.net<mailto:tcc440 at netscape.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:01 AM Subject: [pianotech] Gated Communities Carl Sanberg said that "exclusive" was the worst word in the English language. When I lived in Richmond, Va, I used to deny service to anyone who lived in a gated community because I reasoned (at that time) that school buses and Postal service people were allowed to use their roads, why should my taxes support such a restrictive place. (Sorry for the run-on sentence). But.. I moved to Florida and it got even worse. AND I had an epiphany.. "These people have a lot of pianos". Duhhh .. and " they can afford to have them tuned" .. Duhhh... So.. Instead of hating the system, I learned to love it. Starting with the gate guard.... Be nice and friendly with him/her. They're only doing their job. (How would you like to have their job???) Tom Cobble RPT Melbourne, Florida -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091120/7320459f/attachment.htm>
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