I just this week got a last minute cancellation (less than 15 hr warning). This time I couldn't get upset as the customer just received a call from the hospital for their daughter to start cancer treatment the next day. Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1 902-221-1540 902-496-0041 Fax HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/"www.musicstop.com -----Original Message----- From: piannaman at aol.com [mailto:piannaman at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:04 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Another side of missed appointments Hi all, I have a client whose piano I tuned 3 times or so when it was brand new. She is a nice lady, and we had good rappor. She called to have her piano tuned again, but when I showed up at her house, she was not there. Repeated phone calls brought no response. I was irritated, and my feelings were somewhat hurt. When you build up trust with a client, it hurts to have that trust broken. Several days ago, 3 years after the broken appointment, I got a call from her daughter, who asked me to come and tune the piano. I set up an appointment, and this time, when I got there, the daughter was home. She said that there had been "issues," so they hadn't been able to get the piano tuned until now, 3 years later. I asked if her mom was okay, and she said that her mother had almost died of pneumonia, having been in the hospital for 2 weeks with a fever of 106 degrees. My lesson out of that event was this: never judge people too harshly, particularly when you don't know the whole story. There ARE things that take priority over getting a piano tuned. Dave Stahl, RPT Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at HYPERLINK "http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=ht tp://www.aol.com" \nAOL.com. _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2338 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try HYPERLINK "http://www.spamfighter.com/len"SPAMfighter for free now! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/722 - Release Date: 3/14/2007 3:38 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070315/693bbc93/attachment.html
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