<div>Ron</div> <div> </div> <div>Get yourself a van, paint RON N on the side, and park it right in front of that school.  Or the side.  Or back.  Leave the car at home.</div> <div> </div> <div>It has less to do with their occupation </div> <div>Than with their mode of transportation.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tom S<BR><BR><B><I>Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>> I'm sorry, Ron. The point of my post was to bemusingly point out that <BR>> so often here on the list the "plumber" is used as a standard of <BR>> comparison for us pianoguys. To imagine that any of us actually hold <BR>> any animosity towards "plumbers", or that we might be envious of them <BR>> was intended to be humorous. Maybe humorous is the wrong word; amusing <BR>> might be better.<BR><BR>Tom,<BR>I used plumbers and HVAC as examples because those are <BR>literally the trucks I see parked right outside the side or <BR>back doors of institutions - rather than in the far corners of <BR>the parking lot where I am. A cosmic coincidence, if you will. <BR>Had it been flapjack polisher's trucks, I probably wouldn't <BR>have even mentioned it.<BR><BR>It's true that plumbers take a lot of heat on the list, but I <BR>suspect that it's because the profession is such a universally <BR>recognized prime example of a low skill requirement high pay <BR>job. I dare say I could learn and do a plumber's job in <BR>considerably less time than he could learn and do mine, but <BR>that didn't have anything to do with my mention of plumbers.<BR><BR><BR>> BTW, the reason I didn't mention the HVAC guy, other than the fact that <BR>> I have no idea what an HVAC guy is, is that my post was about plumbers <BR>> popping up so frequently on the list, and was not about your post at all.<BR><BR>That would be Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, <BR>which has some disturbing similarities to plumbing...<BR><BR>Ron N<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>