<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> hmmm... OR the last child that was unsupervised in my shop ended up at the hospital for </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">stitches. </font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> These days one of usually ask if their chidren would like to see the goats or the dogs...outside. Usually works</font><br> <br> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both;"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font></font></b></span></font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_c656b793-6b9e-41c4-858f-4579417c0aac"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">>a half-dozen hammers along with their attached-but now</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">broken-hammershanks came sailing over my head. Into the sudden silence as</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">they landed and bounced along the floor I added,<u><b> ".and repairing the broken</b></u></span><u><b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </b></u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><u><b>hammershanks will add about $10 each."< ddf</b></u></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br> </span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Beautiful reply and delivery, Del. Usually when I think of something droll to say it's after the person has left the scene. I'm sure this was much more effective than if you had blown up at the mother or kid.  Chuck </span></div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> </font>