[CAUT] Reactions, was disability insurance

[Jeff Tanner]

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On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:

> You guys are so funny.  It's true that during my career I have had  
> some customers say they were glad to find a female piano tech,   
> mostly in response to a couple techs in the area that over-stayed  
> their welcome by talking too much or even made, uh, unwelcome  
> advances.

Well, I've also heard tales that some of those advances are not  
always so unwelcome, but that's another subject for another day.

>   I believe most referrals came to me because folks were pleased  
> with my work.  But, just so you know, early in my career, I was  
> often mistaken for the piano tuner's secretary and one time, when  
> the customer realized that I (the female) was indeed the piano  
> tuner, she said, "Well, I'd rather have a man!"
>
> ;-)
>
> Barbara Richmond, strange, but female
>

I've been doing this since I was 17.  You can imagine all the first  
time responses I've gotten over the years from people at the door  
looking past me for the gray-haired fellow (who I am now becoming)  
they expect to be coming up behind me.  "You're the driver, right?"   
"Where's the piano tuner?" "I was expecting someone older."  I even  
thought I caught a hint once that the lady customer was, shall we  
say, "disappointed" that I was filling in for her regular tuner.   
(see above?)

But my all time favorite was a Doctor -- yes, an MD, a college  
educated man -- who, when he found out what I did, said, "I thought  
you had to be blind to do that."

Jeff


Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina




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