<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>This reminds me of a related situation I ran = into one night. I had an evening (dark out) service call scheduled at 123 W. = Fate St., but being unfamiliar with the area, pulled up at 123 E. Fate St. = Knocked on the door, young daughter-type answers the door "Hello, I'm Terry Farrell = to service your piano". She responded "Oh, okay, come on in - the piano is = right over here". So I sit down and start opening up the piano, etc. After a = few minutes the parental units appear and ask what the $#&% I'm doing. = You know the rest of the story at that house (they settled down after they, and I, realized I should have been two blocks over).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>So I go over to 123 W. Fate St. and spend a = couple hours wrenching on some old POS that hadn't been tuned in decades for some = $#&% young male-type. He pays with a check. I deposit the check a couple days = later and it bounces. He disappears from the face of the earth.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>That still is the only bad check I have ever = received in this business.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>So Terry, I guess your stumble turned out a bit = better than mine!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT = face=Arial size=2>> What a WEIRD quirk of luck! I was making my nightly calls = to schedule <BR>> tunings when I got a wrong number; I dialed correctly = but apparently wrote <BR>> down the wrong numer. Anyway, a lady answered = and told me that I had the <BR>> wrong number, and indeed I did. She asked me = who I was and what was the <BR>> "nature" of my call. I told her I was = calling a client to confirm a tuning <BR>> appointment for tomorrow.<BR>> = <BR>> Long story short, she said that she had a piano and could i come to tune = it. <BR>> I said yes, and I booked it for the following week! This is = basically <BR>> tantamount to picking a name out of the phone book, at random, = and getting a <BR>> piano owner who just happens to need a tuning. Now = for the real STRANGE <BR>> twist; the lady who answered was NOT at her own = home, but just happened to <BR>> be visiting her friend,  who does NOT own = a piano...so if HE had answered, <BR>> (which I'm surprised he = didn't)  it probably would have just been your <BR>> typical wrong number and = that would've been that. One in a million, or some <BR>> high = number!<BR>> <BR>> Terry Peterson<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> pianotech list = info: </FONT><A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"><FONT = face=Arial size=2>https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</FONT></A></BODY><= /HTML>