This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment BR: "I smiled and thought, "This guy is really warped." That just made me nostalgic for Monty Python. That was a pretty funny = routine he came up with. :) When I first started tuning, people would often say "My son/daughter = isn't home from high school yet." So I grew a sparse beard. Then they = expressed reservations about their daughter or son hanging out with a = hippie. Sometimes there's just no winning in this strange business :-). JeffO ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Barbara Richmond=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Reactions, was disability insurance ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jeff Tanner=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Reactions, was disability insurance 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 =20 I arrived to tune this guy's piano and one of the first things he said = to me was when he was a child, the man who tuned his family's piano was = blind, so as a child he thought all piano tuners were blind. Then, of = course, he discovered later that no, a person didn't need to be blind to = be a piano tuner, but didn't I think it would be a fine Monty Python = scene--John Cleese at the desk of a vocational school asking, "So, what = do you want to be?" The unsuspecting would-be piano tuner would say "Why, I'd like to be a = piano tuner, sir." "All right, please step into that room and your eyes will be plucked = out....." I smiled and thought, "This guy is really warped." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "I think I'm in luv." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We were married nine months later.... Barbara Richmond (coming up on our 14th anniversary) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/07/6c/be/a8/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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