How about the customer in the month of December tells you to come to the outskirts of town and their house is the first house with Christmas light on it. Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1 902-221-1540 902-496-0041 Fax www.musicstop.com -----Original Message----- From: carlteplitski [mailto:koko99 at shaw.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:23 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: customers is funny Had a customer telling me how to find his place . Go down ----- street to the exit , and drive 3 miles till you get to ------- road. Down this road for 2 miles, turn left at that intersection. go 1 mile to the next intersection and turn left at the corner where the church " used " to be. What's there now, I asked. Don't know, I never go that way !!! I could have puked on my shoes. It's funny now, but not then. Carl / Winnipeg. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Carey" <mcpianos at hotmail.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:06 AM Subject: RE: customers is funny > > It actually spells " Cul de sac". It's funny how people can transform > words with time. I don't think litteral translation makes sense since > "cul" means ass like derriere and "sac" ia a bag. Even for me as a > french speaking person, the expression if taken litterally makes no > sense. But it still is used on street signs and should be translated > to "dead end". > > I've seen quite a few pianos that had come to their dead end... ;=) > > Marcel Carey, RPt > Sherbrooke, QC > > ----------------------------------------> >>I was on the phone getting > directions to a new customer's house. She>>was saying go down such and > such street, etc. Then she said, "we're>>in a 'cuddle sack'." Then she > said it again. "...cuddle sack.">>>I thought to myself, "I'm not > *that* kind of piano tuner, ma'am.">>>>-->>JF> > _________________________________________________________________ > Envoie un sourire, fais rire, amuse-toi! Employez-le maintenant! > http://www.emoticonesgratuites.ca/?icid=EMFRCA120 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.10/1091 - Release Date: > 10/24/2007 2:31 PM > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2433 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.8/1089 - Release Date: 10/23/2007 7:39 PM
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