Joe, I will do my best to verify I'm in the right place and then go on in. Although....on one occasion, I called the night before to verify, showed up at the prescribed time, rang the doorbell, saw a TV on through the window from the porch, car in the drive. I knocked, rang, checked the door, opened a crack, and said "hello I'm here to tune th......." when I was confronted by a guy in his bathrobe with a revolver in his hand. He immediately knew his mistake, mumbled some incomprehensible words, apologized profusely and I composed myself to tune a really rotten spinet. Ya never know! Chuck Vetter ----- Original Message ----- From: jimfrazee at msn.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Door open,but customer not home - what would you do? 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 . . . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090715/d7604029/attachment.htm>
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