What David said. We live in a crazy world, but I choose not to participate in the craziness. My clients treat me like family and I reciprocate. Dean Dean W May (812) 235-5272 voice and text PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Nereson Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:18 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] what woudl you do? 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
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