[pianotech] Door open, but customer not home - what would you do?

[jimfrazee at msn.com]

Joe,

It's a matter of trust, isn't it?

You trusted:

    someone opened the gate for you.    

    you were in the right house.

    the dog wasn't a man killer.

    the cars outside didn't belong to robbers.

    whoever opened the gate wasn't Freddy Kruger.

    the people who can home later were in fact the owners.

They trusted:

    you were in fact a piano technician.

    you didn't rob them blind.

    you didn't eat their cookies.

    you'd bill them accordingly, including hazardous duty pay.

Seriously, even though it's 90 miles, I'd leave a note and bill them for the time/mileage.  What if something HAD happened while you were there?  What if you'd found robbers or a body or whatever . . . 
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