[pianotech] weird, but true

[Gerald Groot]

I used to have a customer named Wong.  Her husband was a doctor.  One day,
she forgot to turn off the house alarm. (Well, how was I supposed to know?)
When I opened the door the thing went off scaring the crap out of me.  Boy
howdy, was that thing LOUD!!!  30 minutes later, here came the cops.  Just
as I was leaving, of course.  I was giving up on them.  They checked out the
place, asked me a gazillion questions and finally left.  I found out later
from his wife that Dr. Wong had to cancel his clients to come home to turn
off the alarm because he could not locate his wife.  Consequently, that man
was NOT a happy camper.  From what I was told, he had a lot of wong widdle
things to say to his wife about that for quite some time to come after that.


 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Forsyth
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:34 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] weird, but true

 

Long time ago I had a call from someone who wanted their piano tuned. I
asked their name and the reply was " same as yours". I retorted with "
that's a very unusual name Mr Sameasyours"!

 

AF

----- Original Message ----- 

From: tnrwim at aol.com 

To: pianotech at ptg.org 

Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:07 AM

Subject: [pianotech] weird, but true

 

Last week I got a call from a man wanting an estimate on re-stringing a
grand piano. His name was Gerald Wong. A couple of days later I got a call
from a lady who also wanted an estimate on restring a grand piano. Her name
was Connie Wong. When I got her message, I told my wife, "Doesn't that
couple talk to each other?" Well it turned out that Gerald Wong lives on one
side of Oahu, and Connie Wong lives other side, so they aren't man and wife.
Beside, Gerald has Knabe grand, and Connie has a Hazelton.

 

So yesterday I saw Connie, and she introduced me to her husband. Would you
believe his name is Gerald. Well, today I saw Gerald Wong. Guess what. Would
you beleive that his wife's name is Connie. What's more, both Gerald's are
Chines, and both Connie's are Caucasians. 

 

Now, as weird as this sound, you have to know that Wong is about as common
as Smith or Jones. But that two couple, both name Connie and Gerald Wong,
had grand pianos that needed to be restrung. Now that's totaly weird. 

 

Wim  

PS, As it wound up, the Hazelton just a had a few strings missing, but I am
putting on new hammers. But the Knabe needs new string, and the action
regulated. 

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