<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <title>RE: customers is funny</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250" /> <style> v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } </style> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" vlink="#0000ff" link="#0000ff" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div> <div align="left"><strong><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Amen to that! I'm in rural Missouri and most of my driving is through forests and farm/ranch land. When I visit St. Louis or other cities, I get very claustrophobic, especially in heavy, rude traffic.<br /><br />Here are actual directions from the first name in my contacts list: H<font size="2"> to Lenox then 63 S ~ 2.5 m to R on Cnty 6230 til it hits gravel then find yellow trailer with a fence then R past a big red barn then 90 degree R turn on Cnty 6245 short way to Grey double wide on R.<br /><br />But it beats this sort of thing: "Well, Sir, you go on down there something like two miles past where the old round barn used to be then turn right at the old Tylor place (can't remember the name of the folks that bought it back in '72) and follow the creek 'till, oh, about 2 miles before you get to the old auction barn (not old man Johnson's, the other one that burned) and it's right there on yer left, about 8 miles or so, seems to me, if the creek ain't up to high. If you cross the county line, yeh went to far. Say hi to Thelma Louise for me if she's out in her field."</font><br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br /> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr />Original message<br />From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie@allthingspiano.com></annie@allthingspiano.com><br />To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org></pianotech@ptg.org><br />Received: 10/25/2007 3:41:34 PM<br />Subject: RE: customers is funny<br /><br /> <div> <div align="left"><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> <div><span class="156493620-25102007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span></div> <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> <div><span class="156493620-25102007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span></div> <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> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" 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> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <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> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Of course the piano was always some dirty neglected 1950s spinet with breaking plastic elbows.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rob Goodale, RPT</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Las Vegas, NV</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #000000 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"> <div style="font: 10pt arial"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt"></span></font></p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">How about the customer when asked what their house number there is along pause while they go outside to looked at the number on their house.</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font> </div> <div class="Section1"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Wayne Walker</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Piano Tuner / Technician</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service</span></font></b></strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">264 Herring Cove Road</span></font></b></strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Halifax</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">, NS, Canada</span></font></b></strong></p> </div> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div></span></font></b></strong> </div> </div> </body> </html>