embarrassing add reply

[pianoman]

By the way there was no urinal in the whole room.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I am only as good as my last tuning"

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> From: ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: embarrassing add
> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 2:10 PM
> 
> Hi James
> In the west of Ireland we identify the rest rooms just for guys like you.
> They are labeled: Mna and Fir.(irish) The Engish speaking tourist usually
> glances at both doors and reasons that Mna must be men and Fir must be
> female.......Wrong!!
> It's actually done deliberately for fun.
> 
> Ralph Martin
> 
> On Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:40:29 -0600 "pianoman" <pianoman@inlink.com>
> writes:
> >Is that worse than going into the bathroom in a theatre and wonder why 
> >all
> >the women are in the mens bathroom only to finally figure out I was in 
> >the
> >wrong place.?
> >James Grebe
> >R.P.T. from St. Louis
> >pianoman@inlink.com
> >"I am only as good as my last tuning"
> >
> >----------
> >> From: ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com>
> >> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> >> Subject: embarrasing
> >> Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 7:43 PM
> >> 
> >> Hello list
> >> I wonder if the following has ever occured to any of you guys?
> >> 
> >> One day last week I was seated at a piano in a customer's home and a 
> >spun
> >> around to face the elderly couple to explain what a "pitch 
> >correction "
> >> was and why it seemed necessary for their piano.
> >> 
> >> All the while I was talking they both smiled, almost as if they 
> >though I
> >> was trying to snow them. Finally, when I had finished explaining 
> >(they
> >> were still smiling) I turned back to the piano to perform my little
> >> "operation"......and I noticed, with a great deal of embarrasment, 
> >that
> >> my fly was wide open. This, apparently, was the reason for their
> >> continuous grins. I just started tuning!!
> >> 
> >> Then, at that moment I was reminded of a letter I had received last 
> >year
> >> from a religious organization. The letter explained about their
> >> particular phylosophy and about a man named Clyde who would sit up 
> >front
> >> during the sermon. He was placed there to show, graphically, the
> >> disasterous results of living a life of sin. They said he would sit 
> >there
> >> during the entire sermon, red-eyed, picking his nose with his fly 
> >wide
> >> open.
> >> 
> >> In the next paragraph they informed me that poor Clyde had finally 
> >passed
> >> away and that my name had been submitted as a possible replacement.!
> >> 
> >> I don't know who sent the phoney letter, but it entered my mind just 
> >as I
> >> realized my fly was open...and I burst out laughing. The elderly 
> >couple
> >> evidently thought I had discovered the wide open fly and was 
> >laughing out
> >> of embarrasment.....and they were dead right!!!
> >> 
> >> May it never happen to you!
> >> regards
> >> Ralph Martin
> >