---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote: > You guys are so funny. It's true that during my career I have had > some customers say they were glad to find a female piano tech, > mostly in response to a couple techs in the area that over-stayed > their welcome by talking too much or even made, uh, unwelcome > advances. Well, I've also heard tales that some of those advances are not always so unwelcome, but that's another subject for another day. > I believe most referrals came to me because folks were pleased > with my work. But, just so you know, early in my career, I was > often mistaken for the piano tuner's secretary and one time, when > the customer realized that I (the female) was indeed the piano > tuner, she said, "Well, I'd rather have a man!" > > ;-) > > Barbara Richmond, strange, but female > I've been doing this since I was 17. You can imagine all the first time responses I've gotten over the years from people at the door looking past me for the gray-haired fellow (who I am now becoming) they expect to be coming up behind me. "You're the driver, right?" "Where's the piano tuner?" "I was expecting someone older." I even thought I caught a hint once that the lady customer was, shall we say, "disappointed" that I was filling in for her regular tuner. (see above?) But my all time favorite was a Doctor -- yes, an MD, a college educated man -- who, when he found out what I did, said, "I thought you had to be blind to do that." Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/bd/35/2c/d6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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