<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a lawyer friend.  I tune = his piano for minor services that I rarely need.  BUT  if I have problems = with clients that bounce checks or don't pay, he is willing to send a = nasty-gram on his letterhead to the offending party.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only one that I have asked him to = do this for was a <STRONG><U>music store</U></STRONG> that asked me to do a warranty = tune for them, and then stalled on paying me their paltry amount which was = 50% of my standard fee.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It pays to have = friends....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Carwithen</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Day, OR</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>