Ed, Snow and slush ARE beautiful!!! It's the best kept secret in Wisconsin. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:00 AM Subject: Re: Appearance > inre dress, Gina writes: > > >It all depends... > >On what works for the individual. :-) > > Yea verily! After ruining enough clothes with dirt in the pianos, I > began wearing one piece jump suits with the business name over the pocket. > (Wear-Guard, about $27). Customers love it, even strangers talk to me in > supermarket check-out lines, and there is always someone at a gas station > that expects me to fill their car up for them! I write the cost off totally > as a business expense, of course. I can also get dressed in about two > minutes, with no thought to "matching". Fashion may or may not be my > strongest point. > There is a curious juxtapostion between this "industrial" appearance and > the preconceived notion of what "the piano tuner" should look like that tends > to let me start off with a clear slate. I guess it makes a visually neutral > first impression and how things go depends on myself and what I say. It > doesn't hurt that there was a piano butcher in the area that always wore a > three-piece suit and played well enough to impress, for a while. > I think the shoes are probably the most important part of any outfit, > though. They gotta be either shined or, if your feet like the New Balance > shoes like mine do, clean as new. And yes, I make sure that there are no > holes in the socks, ( but am I the ONLY person that has whacked my big > toenail into the front edge of a worn, sharp, damper pedal???) > > Then Gina writes: > >Of course, we Southerners are more casual today, especially since the influx > > of all the rest of the country who has recently discovered who wonderfully > > beautiful the South is. :-) > > Shhhhhhh! Do you want all them infiltrators moving in? Just let'em keep > on thinking that snow and slush is beautiful. (:)}} > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT > >
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