<HTML><HTML> In a message dated 8/19/06 1:02:12 AM, dnereson@4dv.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">Do you guys and gals answer your cell phone in customer’s homes? </BLOCKQUOTE> David; You have received a lot of good answers. To add mine to the mix.............. No absolutely not. :-) I might carry my cell phone with me but I would never answer it unless I was expecting a life or death call. If such were the case I would inform the customer that I was possibly going to recieve said call and (perhaps) apologize in advance. Few things aggravate me more than inconsiderate people who use cell phones in inappropiate circumstances.....such as in line at the bank/grocery store/ ticket counter having to listen to Mrs. so & so complain about her husbands cheating while Mr. thing-a-ma-jig behind you is discussing cleaning out Mr & Mrs. Smith septic tank, or having to listen to a Mom screaming on the phone at her kids to settle down and behave or "you are really going to get it when I get home." (verbatim quote ;) Would you consider taking an answering machine with you so you could monitor the calls it answered? We have little enough civility, consideration, plain good manners, in the world and not using the danged cell phone in inappropiate circumstances is adding just a tad where it is woefully lacking. No matter the venues you might work for/with there is never a reason to intterupt your work/tuning in progress that can't wait until you are finished tuning the piano you are working on. For instance lets assume that you are half-way through tuning a piano and you get a call from some important customer with an emergency situation.....are you going to stop the current tuning, close up you tools and scoot over to the venue and take care of the percieved emergency? Leaving a piano half tuned is unacceptable, I think you would agree, and if we wouldn't leave a piano half tuned then just what was accomplished by interrupting your work to answer the danged phone? If we have customer, real or potential, who can't wait an hour for a return call then we 'probably' don't want those customers on our list anyway.......impatience is rampant in our society and we don't need to build our client base full of those who are........... But that is just my opinion...other milages 'will' vary. Jim Bryant (FL)</HTML>