Stupidly Challenge (Reply)

[Dan Eumurian]

Sorry, Ed (and some of the rest of you). You're showing that you don't
even qualify to be on the highly regarded Stupidity Scale. :0))

The old dictionary in my office tells me that the shared meaning element
in "stupid, dull, dense, crass and dumb" is "lacking in or exhibiting a
lack of power to absorb ideas or impressions."

If you learn from your mistakes, and especially if you're willing to let
others learn from them, you're not stupid--only on the way to becoming
even smarter than you already are. The glass isn't half-empty--it's
halfway to becoming full!

Now, as to my contribution, I have a handful of customers who own player
pianos, and one day I misread my scheduling book and went to Thursday's
on Wednesday--and they lived a lo-ong way apart. As I recall, Thursday's
let me do the work, and Wednesday's let me re-schedule--and gave me the
customary root beer and ice cream to boot. Also, when I was taking my
tuning test in St. Louis in 1986, a couple of guys brought me a meal and
I was too nervous and absent-minded to remember to pay them. Squeaked
thru the test, though. 

BTW, we have a portion of our meetings in the Minnesota-North Iowa
Chapter called "Wonders and Ventures," where questions and new knowledge
are especially encouraged. Kind of describes the Guild and the List in
general.

Thanks for sharing, everybody.

Dan Eumurian, RPT
1634 Barlow St.
La Crosse, WI 54601
(608) 78-TUNER
hope4you@centuryinter.net

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>     Stupidity is more keenly exhibited by those that are no longer beginners.
>  Here is mine.
>    Several years ago,  I was stringing a new pinblock when I discovered that
> one of the holes was not drilled quite all the way through.  I discovered
> this when the pin stopped going down about 1/4" from the rest of them.
> So.........
>    I just hammered it until it did, and then noticed I had delaminated the
> bottom of the pinblock.  THIS was  stupidity, and it cost me a new block,
> several days delay,and a lot of work.
>     What should I have done?  I should have taken the pin out, drilled a
> slightly undersized hole through the remaining plank, and then if necessary,
> gone to a larger pin.
>     There is never enough time to do some jobs right, but always enough time
> to do it twice.......
> REgards,
> Ed Foote