Kristinn Leifsson wrote: > You know, something very similar happened to me a few days ago. I was > tuning for a jazz gig in a café. ....snipsnip > > The waitress comes to me and asks me whether I could WAIT WHILE THEY´RE > EATING! Amazing stuff... I think many of us have run into that one at sometime.. Nice reply is that you charge by the hour and its double time and a half for unappointed delays.. grin. > > Those were her last words! You can´t speak with a soundboard steel through > your larynx! Course as ignorant as that all sounds I suppose we all can be pretty dumb...er.. from time to time.. > > > Die piggy piggy, die die! > > Kristinn > > At 19:48 18.8.2000 -0400, you wrote: > > >Tuning the grand wasn't hard enough with all the waite staff enroute > >by the piano on their setup chores. It wasn't so bad either when they > >had to shout above the tuning to carry on their conversation from across > >the room. And when the vacuum started up, fortunately it was mostly on > >the other side of the room. But when one waitress with a high pitched > >voice started whining about her boyfriend I thought it couldn't get any > >worse until she started throwing silverware into the drawer. > > > >At that point I had to stop and reflect, have a little chuckle; and then > >proceed to work as fast as I could. > > > >Hazard pay, > > > >Jon Page > > > >PS I forgot to mention the waiter who intermittently whistled the note I was > >attempting to tune. I would have liked to thrown some of that silverware > >at him. :-) > > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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