<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>I scheduled a tuning with a women = who I knew pretty well, but I had never been to her house, met her husband or knew = his first name.  I had only written her name and phone number down in = my calendar, so the morning of the tuning I looked up her address in the = phonebook (it had her name "Tom and Theresa Elsey" -how many Theresa Elsey's = could there be in this small town?  Two?) and when I arrived I could see = the grand in the front picture window, the husband was a little surprised = that his wife had not told him I was coming, but he showed me to the piano, asked = me my advice on several things, then walked out.  I pitchraised the = piano, made some adjustments and left the bill with him.. As I was driving away I = checked my phone messages and I had one from the husband of the lady I was = supposed to have tuned for and found out that there were two Theresa Elsey's = in town and that I had tuned the wrong piano.  The owner of the piano I had = tuned was new in town and glad I had tuned it and eventually paid my = fee.  The other couple thought I was a flake. Lesson:  When your = working at full throttle, look up every now and then.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Lance Lafargue, RPT Mandeville, LA  New = Orleans Chapter   </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr>-----Original Message----- From: = owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Robert Goodale Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:39 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Stupidity- scores a "10" </DIV>  bases-loaded@juno.com wrote: <snip> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">As I'm finishing up a woman enters the house = and looks at me with much consternation and alarm.  "Who are = you, and what are you doing in my house?"   I explain that her = sister asked me to tune it for her, at which she responded that she = didn't have a sister, and would I please leave her house, NOW!  To wind = up the story, it turned out that the piano I was searching for was TWO = streets north of Broadway, not ONE, and I had tuned the wrong piano in = the wrong house!</BLOCKQUOTE> YES, YES!!  Two = thumbs up and a perfect 10 in my book!! Rob Goodale, RPT </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>