Things customers say that I'm still not sure how to respond to.

[Robert Wilson]

Can I get you anything?

Yes, two things - a gallon of kerosine and a box of
matches please!

How bad was it?

If it had been a horse I'd have shot it!


Bob


--- Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> wrote:

> At 11:31 AM 2/20/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Things customers say that I'm still not sure how to
> respond to:
> >(And the responses I say in my head but not out
> loud)
> >
> >"Can I get you anything?"
> >- How about espresso and a brownie
> >      (What does "anything" cover? Are they just
> asking if they can 
> > do something
> >         to make the job easier e.g. turn the
> lights on, or is it OK 
> > to ask for coffee ??)
> 
> I could use a shovel/backhoe/end loader to clear the
> memorability off 
> the top of the piano.
> 
> >"You must have good ears"
> >- Well, uh, actually they're pretty average. It
> just took a while to 
> >learn this beat stuff.
> 
> They've held up my glasses quite well for many
> years.
> 
> >"Cool computer with the spinning thing on it!
> What's it do?"
> >- It's much too complicated. Let's just say it does
> a bunch of math.
> 
> I'm addicted to computer games so I play this one
> while I'm tuning.
> 
> >"My uncle (grandfather, neighbor, third cousin) was
> a piano tuner. 
> >He had perfect pitch."
> >- Great he could tune pianos in spite of the
> handicap.
> 
> Does he/she know you've called someone else, yet?
> You might be out of 
> the will by now.
> 
> >"Piano tuning is a dying art, isn't it?"
> >- Do I look like that much of a geezer?
> 
> Dying art for moribund instruments, like this one,
> is a good match, 
> don't you think?
> 
> >and of course, at the end of the job,
> >"HOW BAD WAS IT?"
> >- The poor thing was in terrible shape since it's
> been a decade 
> >since you last cared to get it tuned.
> 
> It was needful, and my wallet looked anorexic.
> 
> 
> 
> (non-relevant, non-political, non-pianoistical
> saying to follow)
> 
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer
> 
> There comes a time in every man's life and I've had
> plenty of them.
> -Casey Stengel
> 
> 



	
	
		
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