I was feeling really sorry for myself for the day I have had, until I read this post. OUCH!!!!! Ed At 12:31 PM 12/2/97 -0500, you wrote: > >In a message dated 12/2/97 10:31:00 AM, hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU wrote: > ><<It's you, Barrie. No other tuner in the history of >tuning has ever had such a day.>> > >Barrie; > In spite of Horace's usual complete analysis of any situation, I must >disagree with him and offer the following as proof. :-) >On a recent delivery, of a rebuild, the original rental truck I had would not >start and of course the piano was already loaded. The replacement truck was >delivered to where I picked up the first truck and no one bothered to tell me >until I called back wanting to know where the new truck was, of course it was >after business hours by then and still no usable truck. Finally the switch >was made and I got on the road. While enroute on a four hundred mile trip I >was ran off the road by a pickup dragging a very badly loaded trailer(or the >driver was drunk). At that particular spot the shoulder of the road was >about a thirty degree slope and there was no way to get on the road again >without risking tipping over. I chose the lesser of two evils and headed for >a stand of saplings because the grass was wet and I could not get the truck >to stop going downhill (aprox 60 MPH). the ploy worked and the saplings >stopped the truck but........... I was wedged in between a really large oak >tree and the saplings--could not move forward or backward..... > A lot of people stopped to make sure I was okay and to offer help if >needed. A tow truck was called and on appearing I was told that we would need >a nurseryman to cut down some trees in order to get the truck out.....So a >nurseryman was callled who finally arrived and said he could not cut down the >trees involved because they were a protected specie. So a state worker from >the EPA was called for permission to cut trees down......On his arrival, >after many many hours and darkness closing in hours before.......he said "nah >go ahead and cut what you need to, they are not a protected specie. > Well we cut down the required trees and I finally got on my way after many >hours of woodland adventure and getting a ticket for failure to maintain >control of my vehicle. (funny I thought that I had done an excellent job of >not killing myself...oh well) Arriving at my location for delivery I found >that 1/2 of the promised help was not what it should have been and I had to >do much more of the moving, lifting, tugging, pulling,etc. (up 9 steps) than >I had counted on. I was just getting over a week of an extrememly sore back >and got that started hurting again. > In picking up another rebuild for the return trip we had to traverse a >hundred million miles inside the house, up and down steps, to get the piano >on the truck. Now because of the damage to the truck, during my woodlands >excursion, I had to purchase several rolls of duct tape to repair the body >damage and keep the newly picked up instrument dry on the trip back to >Florida. Of course I fell off the ladder while doing this and hurt my back >even more. > The rest of the trip was uneventful and my back is coming along nicely, >thank you. > So Barrie you can see where I might not have too much sympathy for you >because you had to tune several pianos in one day under trying circumstances. > :-) And thereby rests my disagreement with Horace as to, <<"<<It's you, >Barrie. No other tuner in the history of tuning has ever had such a >day.">>., if you count one twenty four hour period as one day. >My Best >Jim Bryant (FL) > > Ed Carwithen Oregon
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