Christmas time pet peeves

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Wed, 09 Dec 1998 06:56:15 -0600


Clyde,
At 06:59 12/9/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Wim:
>	I'm glad you feel better now.  Although I don't know you all that well,
>I suspect you're really not Scrooge at all.

---I don't know... Have you ever met Wim???  :-}
  
>  90+ percent of the time, everything is cleared off and ready for me.  Most
>of the rest just forgot and scurry to get it done.

---After I jokingly tell those types that I've got to get under the hood
(bonnet) to give it a tuneup, they usually remember the next time.

>> 4. Once in the house, every picture in the world, plus the manger scene
with
>> 15 animals, and a couple of angles,

---(Or angels at odd angles...)

>> are on top of the piano, and the question
>> "do these have to come off?"

---I also let the customer remove anything which even _hints_ at
breakability. That usually gives me time to remove coat, open tool case,
scratch cat/pet dog/smack kid's wrist, etc.


Conrad

Conrad Hoffsommer 	mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu
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