<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>Having a bath?  Thats a tad intrusive.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'll stick to banging my head on the fallboard.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bill S(name still withheld to protect the writer) </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 9/2/2005 5:12:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jrpiano@w= in.eastlink.ca writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>There is one notorious tuner up this way. I ha= ve to share a couple of <BR>beauties with you.<BR>He was tuning this piano, = and the customer noticed that she hadn't heard a <BR>note in a while and wen= t to check. He was flat out on the carpet sleeping.<BR>Same tuner, an even w= orse story. Once again the customer noticed no noise in <BR>a while, and wen= t to check, he was having a bath, in her bathroom.<BR>I should have changed = the heading to, "Unbelievable but True.<BR>These stories, came direct from t= he customers concerned, and are not <BR>hearsay.<BR><BR>John M. Ross<BR>Wind= sor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR>jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca<BR>----- Original Messag= e ----- <BR>From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com><BR>To: "C= ollege and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Friday, Sep= tember 02, 2005 7:45 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _tho= ught_ I slept....<BR><BR><BR>> Ah ssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuuuuuu= uuuuussssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnn  <G><BR>> Joe Goss RPT<BR>> Mot= her Goose Tools<BR>> imatunr@srvinet.com<BR>> www.mothergoosetools.com= <BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: "Susan Kline" <sklin= e@peak.org><BR>> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg= .org><BR>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:21 PM<BR>> Subject: R= e: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept....<BR>><BR>><BR>= >><BR>>> I was really tired, it's true ... this happened many ye= ars ago.<BR>>><BR>>> I had something to do to the action of a li= ttle crummy American grand -- <BR>>> you know the type.<BR>>> I = pulled the action, and didn't see a table to put it on. I don't know <BR>&gt= ;> why<BR>>> I didn't put it on the piano lid -- too heavy? afraid = of scratching it?<BR>>><BR>>> Anyway, I just put it on the floor= . Then I think I was checking to see if<BR>>> some wippens were rubbin= g, or if the backchecks lined up with the hammer<BR>>> tails or someth= ing -- I ended up lying on the carpet, looking at it<BR>>> sideways. T= HEN the owner came in. She thought I was taking a nap on her<BR>>> liv= ing room floor.<BR>>><BR>>> I told her what I was doing instead,= but I don't think she believed me.<BR>>><BR>>> ssssssssnnn<BR>&= gt;><BR>>><BR>>> At 05:25 PM 9/2/2005 -0400, you wrote:<BR>&g= t;> >Many years ago, for lunch I would swing by a Mexican fast food jo= int<BR>>> >(Naugles) whose shakes, burritos and nachos I was addict= ed to.  Somehow<BR>>> >this combination made me sleepy.....I'd= then do the 1:00 PM tuning.<BR>> Often<BR>>> >by 1:30 I'd catch= my head bobbing...waking, I'd check to see if the<BR>> client<BR>>&gt= ; >was around to notice...<BR>>> ><BR>>> >Once my foreh= ead head hit the fallboard...I knew I had to cut out the<BR>>> >Nau= gles trip.   I've since read that that shake at lunch was a guaran= tee<BR>>> >of an afternoon siesta at the piano.<BR>>> ><BR= >>> >No one ever reported any snoring, fortunately.<BR>>> &gt= ;<BR>>> >It's getting a little sleepy here at the shop...better get= back to work.<BR>>> ><BR>>> >Bill S(name withheld to prot= ect the writer)<BR>>> ><BR>>> ><BR>>> ><BR>>&g= t;<BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> c= aut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<BR>>><BR>><= BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> caut list in= fo: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<BR>> <BR><BR>_______________= ________________________________<BR>caut list info: http://www.ptg.org/mailm= an/listinfo/caut</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>