<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 3:47 PM, Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">I've walked out of homes when I discovered I was alone in the home with a child. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">No friggin' way. Uh, uh. Not today sir. I'm outta there! See ya!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Terry Farrell</font></div> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c"> <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">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><b>From:</b> <a title="IFixPianos@yahoo.com" href="mailto:IFixPianos@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Michael Magness</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">Pianotech List</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:04 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Held "Hostage" by Tiny Lookerson</div> <div><br></div> <div><br clear="all">I've tuned for the family for over 30 years, they had 5 natural children and adopted 2 from Korea the girl Cindy at age 9 and a year or so later Timmy at age 3. Cindy it turned out was a piano Phenom and the whole family became accustomed to waking in the morning and going to sleep at night to the sound of her playing the piano. They began with an old upright, moved on to a new Kimball artist console which after a year needed heavy regulation from the hours a day she spent playing. I advised them to get a more "heavy duty" piano, a studio, which they did.</div> <div> </div> <div>I was there to tune in mid-winter and Timmy was in the house alone, home from 1/2 day kindergarten. Dad's Transmission shop was just across the road, a dirt country road that they lived on the end of. Timmy and I talked when I arrived and when I took my mid-piano break but then I was done, I left the bill on the piano, packed my toolbox and set it down next to the wall and went around the corner to use the bathroom. I came out and no toolbox to be seen, I was certain I had set it there, I asked Timmy if he had seen it, he shook his head. I began looking around for it and found it several feet from where I knew I had left it, behind a recliner chair. I looked at Timmy and asked did you move this here? He paused a moment, then he nodded, I understood then that he was lonely there by himself, glad to have some company and tried to keep me there as long as possible. So I stayed a few more minutes with him and got him settled in front of the television. <div>I was amazed that he managed to move that toolbox it must have weighed as much as he did about 45 pounds! He was always small for his age. The next time I was there his mom was home and I told her about it and she was amused and amazed that he would do such a thing.</div> <div> </div> <div>Oh yeah, he has his own 1 year old now and is 23.</div> <div>Mike<br>-- <br>We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div> </div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div> <div>This is Wisconsin, rural Wisconsin, we're a friendly, trusting bunch here. I've had many appointments where the kids let me in after school to get started and mom gets home 1/2 hour to an hour later. I have other customers I've never met, I just happen to know which door isn't locked to their house or where they hide the extra key. I never suggest working in an empty home or arriving when the kids are there without mom but if they do, sure why not, I sit down at the piano and I stay there!!!! The kids can do what they please, I'm busy doing my job! I have an appointment for a week from Thursday to tune the piano for a new customer, her college age daughter will let me in and probably leave before I'm finished. All in a days work!</div> <div> </div> <div><br>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>