The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius)

[Jeff Olson]

Barbara --

Already have tried that technique!  Actually, I use it fairly frequently --  
the check-writing period is one of the most dangerous for those suffering 
from Loquacious Syndrome.

Besides, it's a good time to use the bathroom without wasting anyone's time 
:-).

Jeff

P.S.  What's the longest time anyone's taken to write you a check?  I've 
waited for up to fifteen minutes in cases where the person couldn't find a 
check (at which point I leave them with a bill).  I've also had trouble with 
people -- often the elderly, but not always -- who can't talk and write at 
the same time.  My only technique then, aside from the bathroom-escape 
gambit, is to become absolutely silent.  Even one word can trigger a three 
or four-minute torrent of words...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57@insightbb.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius)


> Oh, the things we could tell!
>
> I had a customer who would want to talk while he wrote out the check.  The
> problem was he couldn't talk <and> write the check at the same time.  It
> took an agonizingly long time to get that check filled out.  It seemed 
> like
> the closer he got to finishing, the more he talked.  After a couple of
> appointments with him, I realized that if I excused myself to the bathroom
> (whether I needed to use it or not) that the check would get written and I
> would be out of his house in record time.  :-)
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Olson" <jlolson@cal.net>
> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 7:48 PM
> Subject: The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius)
>
>
>>I occasionally have experiences like these with my customers.  There are
>>some people who seem unable to conduct a business-like exchange (which is,
>>after all, what we're supposed to be doing), and must include every
>>extraneous and utterly irrelevant detail of their lives while I'm
>>struggling to get or deliver some basic information about their piano.
>>
>
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