<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to all of you who replied. Apparently I did the wrong thing by staying to finish the tuning. Next time. I'll leave and let the customer know why.</FONT></div> <div> </div> <div>In my 38 years of tuning, I've been alone in a house with a teenager maybe 6 times, and I've never had any problems. As one person said, they are mostly interested in watching TV or talking on the phone. I've even been asked to keep an eye on an 8 or 10 year old boy when the mother took 10 minutes to pick up another kid from school. </div> <div> </div> <div>Maybe I'm too trusting, and don't think of the consequences of what might happen. But I'll certainly keep the suggestions in mind the next time anything happens. On the hand, in the eyes of the teenager, when your older then most of their grandparents, they probably don't think I can "do" anything, anyway.. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Nereson <da88ve@gmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, May 17, 2012 12:17 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] what woudl you do?<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_2a8b8c23-5ba0-42f3-80b6-e399ae8dbd67><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT> I'd be more concerned about getting her cold just from bacteria circulating in the air or on the keys (!) than I would be about anything else. I hate it when people schedule me when somebody in the house is sick. If you've already been tuning for them for 4 years, there shouldn't be a problem. I've tuned for many people when just the teenage daughter is home. The clients have no worries because I've been recommended highly by their friends, relatives, neighbors, whoever. I go in, proceed directly to the piano, barely even acknowledging the daughter, and start in. Any kids who might be home are usually way more interested in watching TV or talking on the phone or whatever else they do than watching a piano being tuned (borrrrr-ing!!). When done, I may call out (if nobody's in the room), "I'm all finished. Thank you!" and leave the bill or collect the check they left on the table, and leave. It would only be perhaps one girl in more than thousand of whom I might be leery that she might accuse me of some kind of advance or molestation, and that would only be if by some inappropriate glance, gesture, or comment we got off on a "bad note" (pun intended). But I don't give any inappropriate glances or gestures. I come in, tune the piano, and leave. I just plain don't worry about it. --David Nereson, RPT </TT></PRE></div> </div> </font>