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<DIV><SPAN class=156493620-25102007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Well dang, Rob, I didn't see your card in that piano when I was there
last week. No wonder it sounded so good!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156493620-25102007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Annie Grieshop</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156493620-25102007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>still in Iowa and still happy about it (most of the time
<g>)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156493620-25102007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Did anybody else hear the segment <SPAN
class=984424020-25102007>about</SPAN> morning commutes on NPR's "Marketplace"
program this morning? I was driving backroads through rolling hills,
counting meadow larks and combines while listening to it. <SPAN
class=984424020-25102007>T</SPAN>hey should do one on piano techs -- and I hope
everybody else's commute was just as pleasant.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rob Goodale
[mailto:rrg@unlv.nevada.edu]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:59
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: customers is
funny<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can do better then that. I used to live
in Iowa for a few years, (took me a while but with intense therapy I got over
it). 99% of Iowa is extreme rural and the state is littered with tiny
paved and unpaved roads leading to little towns with populations ranging in
the dozens. Periodically I would get calls with directions like
this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>"Just Past the "Tasty Burger" restaurant take SR-234 for 12 miles
heading east of West UnderwearVille. Make a left at the first
dirt road, go five miles, and then make a right when you see the rusty
tractor. Then go two miles until you see the leaning silo. Our house is
the one behind the maple tree with the big dog out front. Don't worry,
he's friendly".</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course the piano was always some dirty
neglected 1950s spinet with breaking plastic elbows.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV>
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about the customer when asked what their house number there is along pause
while they go outside to looked at the number on their
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