[pianotech] what woudl you do?

[Terry Farrell]

> But I don't give any inappropriate glances or gestures.

But what if she is one of the one-in-a-thousand that might say you did. You're screwed for life. Your job, your reputation, possibly your savings.

I say no way Jose - I'm outta there!

Terry Farrell

On May 17, 2012, at 6:17 PM, David Nereson wrote:

>  I'd be more concerned about getting her cold just from bacteria
> circulating in the air or on the keys (!) than I would be about
> anything else.  I hate it when people schedule me when somebody in the
> house is sick.  If you've already been tuning for them for 4 years,
> there shouldn't be a problem.
>   I've tuned for many people when just the teenage daughter is home.
> The clients have no worries because I've been recommended highly by
> their friends, relatives, neighbors, whoever.  I go in, proceed
> directly to the piano, barely even acknowledging the daughter, and
> start in.  Any kids who might be home are usually way more interested
> in watching TV or talking on the phone or whatever else they do than
> watching a piano being tuned (borrrrr-ing!!).
>    When done, I may call out (if nobody's in the room), "I'm all
> finished.  Thank you!" and leave the bill or collect the check they
> left on the table, and leave.
>    It would only be perhaps one girl in more than thousand of whom I
> might be leery that she might accuse me of some kind of advance or
> molestation, and that would only be if by some inappropriate glance,
> gesture, or comment we got off on a "bad note" (pun intended).  But I
> don't give any inappropriate glances or gestures.  I come in, tune the
> piano, and leave.  I just plain don't worry about it.
>   --David Nereson, RPT