[CAUT] string-strummer revenge

[David Ilvedson]

Real revenge would have meant plucking his Porche...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Mark Cramer" <Cramer at brandonu.ca>
To: CAUT <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 7/26/2006 7:34:53 AM
Subject: [CAUT] string-strummer revenge


>My good friend and client Alan B. e-mailed me the following, about an
>acquaintance of his dropping in to check out Alan's freshly and fully
>rebuilt Knabe 9' concert grand... Who says revenge can't be sweet, and
>perhaps educational?

>"By the way I have had my first "string plucker"....I calmly told him to
>stop
>plucking the strings.

>I went to the kitchen got a clean dry tea towel and rubbed the finger marks
>off the strings that he had touched.

>I was pretty purturbed...as you can well imagine...after all you've told me
>about touching new strings,... but  I really didn't let on."

>The next day apparently, the same friend came by to show Alan his brand new
>"Porsche S Carrera" all-wheel drive (about $170,000.00 CDN), black with
>tobacco leather interior, 355 horse-power, etc. (J-peg attached)

>"The next day I put a big hand print on his freshly washed brand new Porsch
>S
>Carrera then rubbed it off with my t-shirt.

>It just seemed the right thing for me to do ...to put a big fat
>greasy hot handprint on the fender of his newly washed and buffed Porsch, "

>"Touché!"

>Mark Cramer,
>Brandon University