<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Dave asked: "<FONT size=+0>Does anyone have a simple handout, maybe comical or whimsical, that you use to give new customers upon entering their home -- something that points out you can do a better job for tuning for them if lawnmovers, dishwashers, parrots, kids, TVs, washers, sweepers, other workersw, whatevers, are kept to a dull roar?</FONT> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>I sometimes tell noisy customers this but I confess to feeling a bit priggish when I do. But as you all know, you do a better job for them when it's QUIET.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>I was thinking a simple, comical, colorful handout at the beginning of an appointment might do the trick. Anyone do this? Share?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Dave,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>I always give my clients The Piano.......book by Phillip Gurlick. It usually keeps them busy reading, so they aren't up to noisy mischief.<G> If that doesn't work, then I refer them to PAGE 10, Number 18....they read it and usually say: Oh, I hadn't thought of that! Then they go tell the yard service to take a hike or.....whatever. If that doesn't work, then I have an olde 60's Mad Comics Post Card with a picture of Alfred E. Newman shouting so loud that his glottis is vibrating and the forceful sound lines project out of his mouth, expanding to a very large QUIET!!!!!!!!<G> IF that doesn't work I either suffer in silence or walk out, depending on the urgency of my pocket book and the tuning situation.<G></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Regards,</FONT> </DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.</DIV> <DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV> <DIV>Squares R I</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>