The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius)

[Barbara Richmond]

Oh, the things we could tell!

I had a customer who would want to talk while he wrote out the check.  The
problem was he couldn't talk <and> write the check at the same time.  It
took an agonizingly long time to get that check filled out.  It seemed like
the closer he got to finishing, the more he talked.  After a couple of
appointments with him, I realized that if I excused myself to the bathroom
(whether I needed to use it or not) that the check would get written and I
would be out of his house in record time.  :-)

Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Olson" <jlolson@cal.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius)


>I occasionally have experiences like these with my customers.  There are
>some people who seem unable to conduct a business-like exchange (which is,
>after all, what we're supposed to be doing), and must include every
>extraneous and utterly irrelevant detail of their lives while I'm
>struggling to get or deliver some basic information about their piano.
>