<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>This is second hand, but = there is famous lore about a female tech here in KC who was called out = because she was a woman. When the female tech presented the bill, the = (female) customer reportedly said, "Why, that's as much as a man would = charge!" The customer had made the appointment with the female tech = "knowing" that the female tech would have to charge less than male techs = charged. The story went that the customer actually refused to = pay.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kent</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 20, 2006, = at 11:26 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</DIV><BR = class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" = size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; = font-size: 10px; ">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!" </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>=