Home Alone

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Clyde wrote;
<<"Sooner or later something exciting *will* happen to you, I'm almost sure 
of it.">>

David I agree with Clyde here... :-)

 I am reminded of the time when the lady of the house informed me that she 
was going to run down to the store and would be right back.......the phone 
started ringing and ringing and ringing......... so since the phone ringing 
was really interfering with my tuning I answered the phone...just to tell 
whoever it was that the lady had gone to the store and would be back in 10-15 
minutes.    

  There was no answer on the other end of the line just the sound of a phone 
being slammed down so I hung up and went back to tuning.....a few minutes 
later I heard a car in the driveway and thought that the lady had 
returned...well a few seconds later the front door slammed open and a man 
rushed into the house asking in a verrrry loud voice where the heck his wife 
was........I said at the store...he asked "who in the heck" I was I said "the 
piano tuner that is why I am sitting here tuning the piano"........he stormed 
around the house slamming open doors and calling for his wife.............a 
few minutes passed, his wife came in arms laden with groceries, and the 
husband helped her carry the bags into the kitchen, kissed his wife goodbye 
and left....................
Moral of the story 'don't' answer the phone!! :-)

 Another tale of woe.......A local tuner went to do a tuning where there 
would be no one at home and the maid had the day off. He carried his coffee 
into the house with him and during the tuning process spilled his coffee on 
his trousers. Well since he 'was there alone' and this was his first tuning 
of the day and since he wanted not to have to go all the way home to change 
trousers he decided to rinse out his trousers and throw them in the dryer so 
they would be clean and dry by the time he finished tuning. He proceeded to 
do just that and returned to tuning dressed only in his shirt and boxer 
shorts..............of course the maid did 'not' have the day off and shortly 
after he returned to his tuning the maid got to the house and found him in 
that state of satorial splendor!!
 Moral of the story? Either don't wet your pants :-), or act like there is 
someone home even when there is not.

 I will 'not' tune "home alone" for anyone the first time and for many I will 
not do so even after meeting the customer. It is really a case by case 
decision for me with the only real criteria being the attitude of the 
customer and my personal level of comfort with them.
My view.
Jim Bryant (FL)