<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hi Dave,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What do you mean, "we could work in thongs".</DIV> <DIV>I do. Then when I get into the house off they come. So I look at = the piano, decide what needs to be done, settle on a price then ask for a cup of = coffee. Milk and two sugars please.</DIV> <DIV>Do you think I should ask for the coffee before I give them a price = ?, or after.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Tony Caught<BR>Darwin<BR>Australia<BR><A href="mailto:caute@optusnet.com.au">caute@optusnet.com.au</A><BR></DIV>= <BLOCKQUOTE 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; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Piannaman@AOL.COM href="mailto:Piannaman@AOL.COM">Piannaman@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 22, 2002 = 10:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: clothing</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>The beauty = of our profession and of being self-employed is that we get to call our own = shots when it comes to personal choices like clothing(I'm sure we'll talk = about the bad parts of being your own boss next April...-).  As long as you = don't offend the customer by being so untidy and unwashed that they mistake = you for a homeless beggar, I don't see the vast majority of piano owners out = there having an issue with what their piano tech wears.  It seems like = people are so mystified and enthralled by what we do, that we could do our = work in thongs without offending.  If you do that, though, watch out = where you point the heat gun, and be careful when doing string work! = <BR><BR>Dave Stahl <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>